Report on Leadership Styles and their Application in Organizations

This report analyzes leadership styles, specifically democratic and situational approaches, suitable for Vigers Property Management Services. It addresses organizational issues such as lack of motivation, poor communication, and low morale. The report details the characteristics of democratic leadership, emphasizing employee involvement in decision-making and its benefits. It also explores situational leadership, highlighting its adaptability to changing business environments and the need for leaders to adjust their styles based on employee needs and organizational requirements. The report concludes that while democratic leadership is appropriate for many of the issues faced by Vigers, situational leadership is also essential for handling dynamic situations. The analysis includes references to academic sources and provides practical recommendations for improving organizational effectiveness.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Leadership style is the behaviour patters which is adopted by the leader for influencing
behaviour of employees within organisation (Aydin, Sarier and Uysal, 2013). It includes way of
giving directions to subordinates as well as leader motivate them to do work in effective manner
and achieve pre-determined goals and objective. This report is based on Vigers Property
management services (Hong Kong) Limited. It is an reputable international real estate
consultancy organisation and they are serving their services over 170 years worldwide. Below
mention report is going to explain leadership style which is suitable for managing work of Vigers
Property management services. As well as resolving the issues of lack of motivation, lack of
responsibility, lack of communication among staff, morale is slow and many more.
MAIN BODY
Leadership style in the way and approaches utilise by the leader within company for
providing direction, implementing plans and motivating peoples (Saleem, 2015). For managing
things in proper manner there is requirement of leadership styles because business environment
is dynamic in nature and it require proper management which can be possible only through
different style of leader. There are different type of leadership style such as:
(Source: leadership style, 2016)
Illustration 1: LEADERSHIP STYLE

In Vigers Property management services company several situations are arise which is
affecting its working. Issues are: Colleagues do not have enough discipline, friction among them,
lack of motivation in their work, lack of responsibility and communication within staff members,
morale is very low and so on (Clarke, 2013). These all require particular leadership style so that
issues can be resolved and result in effective working of the enterprise. Below mention is the
leadership style which is suitable for same organisation and help in resolving issues :-
Democratic leadership style – It is an leadership style which states that leaders share
decision making ability with other team members through promoting interest and practising
social equality. Democratic leader hold final responsibility but they delegate authority or
responsibility to other people in the enterprise. It have some unique feature i.e., communication
is active upward and downward. Vigers Property management services company's leader use
democratic leadership style because their employees are less motivated and responsible if leader
and manager involve employees in decision making then they will feel boost-up or motivated as
well as fulfil their responsibility given by the top level authority. Below mention are some step
taken by the leader of Vigers for resolving problems :-
 Involve employees in decision making process which will result in feeling motivated as
well as responsible (Merchant, 2012). If staff members get boost-up then it will directly
result in enhancing productivity and positive working environment.
 Communication is the unique feature of democratic leadership which will help in proper
as well as free flow of information from bottom to top and top to bottom.
 Main reason behind conflict and frictions is that employees feel unequal treatment are
given to them. If democratic leadership is applied each and every staff members are
involved in several activities. This will result in equal treatment and positive working
environment.
Thus, through implementation of Democratic leadership style all these issues will be
resolved within Vigers property management services company (De Vries, 2012). It is suitable
but business environment is dynamic in nature several situations can be arise to deal with all
these there is requirement of situational leadership style also in some situations.
Situational leadership style – It is flexible in nature and situational leadership style is
modify the existing working environment and requirement of the company. Moreover, this
leadership style is not based on the on particular skills of the leader. Leader of the Vigers

property management company modifies their style as per the requirement of the respective
business. Situational leader is easy adaptable because he/she have to move from one leadership
style to another for meeting the change requirement of Vigers company and their staff members.
There are several requirement of situational leadership within Vigers these are as follows :-
 Insight – In this, situational leader have to understand requirement of their employees
and then meet those (Giltinane, 2013). Thus, it will result in motivating employees and
they will feel responsible.
 Flexibility – Environment inside as well as outside is dynamic in nature several issues
can be rise. Thus, according to it leader have to move from one to another leadership
style.
 Trust - It is important that leader must be capable in gaining trust and confidence of the
employees within Virgers because it is the only way through which moral will increase
and result in easy going work (Lian and Tui, 2012).
 Problem solving – In respective organisation several conflicts and friction arises in this
situation manager have to implement proper strategy and resolve these issues.
 Coach – Leader of Virgers must be capable for evaluating the maturity as well as
competence of the followers. After that implement correct strategy for enhancing
employees and their personal character.
Along with this, there are several advantages while implementing situational leadership
style in Virgers. These are as follows :-
 Easy to use – Situational leadership style is easy in implementation with the assistance of
it leader can solve conflict and motivate employees within Virgers.
 Simple – business environment is dynamic in which several issues can be rise and these
all are resolve by the leader through implementation of situational leadership style.
 Major advantage of the respective style is that leader have right to change their
management style as per the requirement.
Hence, for all the problem within Virges property management service company
democratic leadership style is suitable (Koech and Namusonge, 2012). But, due to flexible
environment several situations can rise for dealing with all these there is requirement of
situational leadership style also in the respective enterprise.

CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it has been concluded that, in organisation several situations
or issues arise which require proper leadership style. In Vigers property management service
organisation many problems are generating such as Colleagues do not have enough discipline,
friction among them, lack of motivation in their work, lack of responsibility, lack of
communication among staff, morale is very low and so on. All these are solved through
democratic leadership style but in some situation there is requirement of situational leadership
style also. Because business environment is dynamic in nature and various issues can rise.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Aydin, A., Sarier, Y. and Uysal, S., 2013. The Effect of School Principals' Leadership Styles on
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Clarke, S., 2013. Safety leadership: A meta‐analytic review of transformational and transactional
leadership styles as antecedents of safety behaviours. Journal of Occupational and
Organizational Psychology. 86(1). pp,22-49.
De Vries, R.E., 2012. Personality predictors of leadership styles and the self–other agreement
problem. The Leadership Quarterly. 23(5). pp,809-821.
Giltinane, C.L., 2013. Leadership styles and theories. Nursing Standard. 27(41).
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Lian, L.K. and Tui, L.G., 2012. Leadership styles and organizational citizenship behavior: The
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Merchant, K., 2012. How men and women differ: Gender differences in communication styles,
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