Leadership Approaches for Effective Change Management

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UNDERSTANDING AND
LEADING CHANGE
Task 3: Leading Change

INDEX
 Introduction
 Leadership approaches to deal with the
change
 Autocratic leadership approach
 Democratic leadership approach
 Transformational leadership
 Laissez-faire leadership
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
Leadership plays an important role in leading
changes in the organisation. by identifying
the appropriate leadership approaches the
leaders and managers at Pharmacy2U can
effectively lead the changes in the company.
a proper leadership approach support in
effective decision making and
implementation of changes. The differnet
types of leadership approaches and its
effectiveness in delivering effective changes
in the company will be presented in this
presentation.

LEADERSHIP APPROACHES TO DEAL
WITH THE CHANGE
Some of the major leadership approaches that
could support teh leaders and managers in
effectively dealing with changes are:
 Autocratic leadership approach
 Democratic leadership approach
 Transformational leadership
 Laissez-faire leadership

AUTOCRATIC LEADERSHIP APPROACH
Such leadership style is centered on top
managers and CEO’s. In this style the
leaders holds the authority, power and
responsibility. In this style, the leaders
makes decisions without consulting
with the employees and expects
prompt implementation from them by
directing them.
Such leaders emphasises on following
set guidelines, procedures and
policies.

DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP APPROACH
Under this style, the employees are
involved in decision making process
along with the leaders. This leadership
focuses on subordinates contributions.
While, the leaders holds the final
responsibility by delegating the authority
to other people.
The communication flow in such leadership
is active upward and downward. It is one
of the most preferred leadership
approach used in an organisation.

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Under this leadership style, the leaders
focuses on initiating changes in the
company, individuals, group or within
himself. It emphasises on motivating
others to innovate and perform with
original intentions and set more
challenging expectations and achive
higher performance.
Such leadership approach is tend to
have more committed and satisfied
followers as it empowers others.

LAISSEZ-FAIRE LEADERSHIP
This leadership style giver authority to
the subordinates. It involves minimum
or zero interference of leaders and the
employees are allowed to work as they
want.
Although this kind of leadership is least
satisfying and least effective style of
leadership and management.

CONCLUSION
the leadership approaches and styles
discussed in this presentation can be
effectively used by the Pharmacy2U to
facilitate effective change
management within the company.

REFERENCES
 Northouse, P.G., 2018. Leadership: Theory
and practice. Sage publications.
 Lewin, K., 2016. Most Effective Leadership &
Management Styles Approaches.
 Antonakis, J. and Day, D.V. eds., 2017. The
nature of leadership. Sage publications.
 Holten, A.L. and Brenner, S.O., 2015.
Leadership style and the process of
organizational change. Leadership &
Organization Development Journal, 36(1),
pp.2-16.