Critical Analysis of an Article: Leadership, Motivation, and Research

This report provides a critical analysis of the article, "The Impact of Leadership Style on Employee's Motivation." The analysis focuses on a mixed-method study conducted in a petrochemical company in Saudi Arabia, which investigated the relationship between leadership styles and employee motivation. The article highlights a positive correlation between transformational leadership and employee motivation, while transactional leadership shows a negative correlation. The report also discusses various leadership styles such as autocratic, consultative, joint decision-taking, and delegation. Furthermore, it compares the reviewed research with two other studies, "A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP STYLES ON EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AND COMMITMENT" and "The Impact of Leadership on Employee Motivation in Malaysian Telecommunication Sector," highlighting similarities and differences in research methods and findings. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of effective leadership in enhancing employee motivation, productivity, and profitability.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Styles of leadership..........................................................................................................................3
Similarities and dissimilarities of the reviewed research work with two other research studies.....4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
The intention of this paper is to critically analyze the article, The Impact of Leadership
Style on Employee's Motivation. The article that is critically analyzed in this paper, chiefly
highlights the mixed method of study that is intended to evaluate the relation between the taken
leadership study and the motivation of the employees in a petrochemical company that is situated
in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia. A survey was made and that was distributed to the employees
who work in two departments. Apart from that among the focus group of 10 employees an
interview was conducted in order to validate the results or the outcome of the survey (Alghazo
and Al-Anazi 2016). The article that is being analyzed in this paper highlights that there is a
presence of relationship between the style of leadership and the motivation of the workforce. The
article further highlights that the correlation is positive with style of transformation; on the other
hand the correlation is negative with the style of transaction.
The aim of the article that is reviewed in this paper was to critically evaluate the
perception of the employees of the department in a privately owned organization regarding the
factors of motivation and how these factors are directly related to the styles of leadership. Thus a
questionnaire is developed which was actually taken from a study similar to the topic of this
article. The chief research questions of the article are how the employees of the organization see
the relationship between motivation and leadership, whether the workforce is extrinsically or
intrinsically motivated, how the business leaders motivate the workforce and what the leaders
want to motivate the employees in future (Alghazo and Al-Anazi 2016).

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The major importance of this paper is to find the bond between the achievement and the
motivation. The major point of this study is that the employees who are highly motivated are the
assets of the organization as in most cases they are generally high achievers. In this context, it is
worth mentioning that motivation in the workforce can be maintained and enhanced in many
ways. As stated by Alghazo and Al-Anazi (2016) some of the business leaders might be inclined
towards motivating the employees by rewarding them and on the other hand, for some leaders it
might appear that they can motivate their workforce by satisfying their individual needs. The
article is specific to the context where the employees are from a small department in a privately
owned organization in Saudi Arabia. The study stresses on two main factors and those are;
 To identify the strategies that can potentially help the management to develop a positive
environment where the employees are motivated.
 Understanding the impact of effective leadership regarding the motivation level of the
general workforce.
Styles of leadership
There are many types of leadership that can be found in business organizations and in
different situations different types of leadership can be seen effective. In this section of this paper
various types of leaderships are discussed.
When the business leaders take autocratic decisions, the employees have no right to
counter the decisions and the management has the full influence over the taken decision
(Alghazo and Al-Anazi 2016).
When the leaders or the management takes a decision after consulting with the other
employees of the organization, it can be referred to as a consultation type of leadership.

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Joint decision taking leadership is something when the management and the general
employees have equal influence over the decision that is going to be taken for the benefit of the
organization.
Delegation type of leadership is seen when the management allows the general workforce
to make decisions for the benefit of the organization.
Similarities and dissimilarities of the reviewed research work with two other research
studies
In this part of this paper it is highlighted that there are some similarities and some
dissimilarities of this article that is analyzed with two other research works in this context. The
research study ‘A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP STYLES ON EMPLOYEE
MOTIVATION AND COMMITMENT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF SELECTED
ORGANISATIONS IN CORPORATE SECTOR’ focuses the leadership and various styles of
leadership that has major impact on the performance level of the employees and on the level of
growth of the organization. The reason of this research paper was to investigate the effect of
leadership on the motivation and commitment of the general human resources. The researcher
used primary data collection process to conduct the research study where as the primary research
paper included both primary and secondary type of data collection (Sougui et al. 2017).
The Impact of Leadership on Employee Motivation in Malaysian Telecommunication
Sector is another research work that is taken to find the similarities and dissimilarities and the
purpose of this research study was to measure the significance of leadership to promote and
enhance employee motivation in the workplace to enhance productivity along with the

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profitability (Chowdhury 2014). The researchers came to a conclusion in this paper using
secondary data collection from various websites, government websites, journals and books.
Conclusion
Thus to conclude, it can be said that the purpose of the three research works including the
main research paper that is reviewed above aims to highlight the effectiveness of leadership to
enhance the motivation level of the employees to experience better productivity and profitability
of the business organizations. In all the research works, the researcher used either primary,
secondary or mixed data collection process in order to ensure accuracy of the research work.

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References
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Chowdhury, R.G., 2014. A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP STYLES ON
EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AND COMMITMENT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF
SELECTED ORGANISATIONS IN CORPORATE SECTOR (Doctoral dissertation, Ph. D.
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