Leadership Report: Theories, Styles, and COVID-19 Impact Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive overview of leadership, exploring various theories, styles, and concepts relevant to contemporary organizations. It begins with an introduction to leadership, emphasizing its role in managing employees effectively. The report then delves into different leadership theories, including contingency, management, participative, and great man theories, as well as leadership styles such as democratic, autocratic, transactional, and bureaucratic leadership. It examines the contributions of leadership to organizational problems, such as the trait-based and institutional approaches. The report also analyzes the impact of leadership, particularly during the COVID-19 crisis, highlighting how effective leadership strategies, like the use of technology, can maintain employee efficiency and communication. The conclusion emphasizes the crucial role of leadership in maintaining smooth organizational operations and fostering effective communication, ultimately sustaining high levels of performance and productivity. References to relevant academic sources are also included.

Authentic Leadership

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Develop an understanding of critically informed knowledge regarding the role of leadership in
contemporary organizations
 Critically evaluate contribution of theories, concepts, practice and research relating to
leadership its development
 Apply the range of theoretical and research-based contributions to the problems of
leadership and its implications
 Conclusion

Introduction
The leadership is basically a combination of various
elements which is used by the individual with in
organization for managing the employees or other
persons effectively. Those elements are skills,
abilities, communication, leadership styles and
others. The main purpose of using suitable leadership
style by manager within organization is to motivate
or encourage all categories of employees effectively.

Roles of leadership
 Supervising
 Developing strategies
 Motivator
 Communicator

Theories, styles and concepts of leadership
The theories of leadership is defined as a concept
of why and how certain people become leaders.
The theories of leadership is mainly focused on
the behavior and traits which is adopted by people
for enhancing the capabilities of leaders within
organization.

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Various leadership theories
 Contingency theory
 Management theory
 Participative theory
 Great man theory

Leadership styles
 Democratic leadership
 Autocratic leadership
 Transactional leadership
 Beucratic leadership

Contributions to the problems of leadership
 A trait based approach – There are
different types of leadership debate which
is based on the characteristics and traits
of a leader. It has been analyzed that
various leadership approaches have
different meanings, the first phase refers
to the traits of a leader, the second
to styles of leadership, the third to a
‘contingency’ approach, which
distinguishes between people-
oriented and task-oriented leaders.

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 Institutional and behavioral approach – There
is a difference between institutions and
organizations approach, and between rules and
players, in developing a theory of institutions. In
aspect of institution it is intended to reduce
uncertainty with help of providing a stable
structure to the interactions between agents and
followers and by reducing the (information) cost
of transactions.

Impact of leadership during Covid crisis
From the above analysis it is understood that the
effective leadership strategies plays the crucial role
for decreasing the distance of interaction between
employee and employer effectively. For reducing
the distance during the time of COVID 19,
TESCO used advanced technology. Due to this
lower level employees are able to do their work
with full efficiency from any location.

Conclusion
From the above analysis it concludes that, the concept of leadership plays the
crucial role for run the activities of organization and all employees smoothly.
Due to the use of suitable leadership style manager of the firm is able to
maintain effective communication bewteen lower level employees for long
time. Due to having effective communication functions of organization are
easily run in systematic manner for long time. In this way the performance or
productivity or organization are easily sustained at higher rate for long time.

References
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 Allen-Ile, C., Mahembe, B. and Balogun, T.V., 2020. A confirmatory factor analytic study of an
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