Leadership Style and Employee Performance: Tesco Dissertation Study

This dissertation investigates the impact of leadership styles on employee performance, using Tesco as a case study. It aims to determine how autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire leadership styles affect employee satisfaction and overall performance. The research employs a mixed-methods approach, utilizing both qualitative data from interviews with managers and quantitative data from employee surveys. Statistical analysis, including the use of MS-Excel for charts and content analysis for interview data, is planned to analyze the collected data. The study's objectives include assessing the individual impacts of each leadership style on employee performance, providing insights for Tesco to improve leadership practices and enhance employee outcomes.

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References........................................................................................................................................5

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Title of Dissertation:
The title of this research is to ‘study on the impact of leadership style on employee performance:
A case study of Tesco, UK’.
Aim and scope:
The aim of this investigation is to address impact of leadership style of performance of
employees in Tesco, UK. Leadership is defined as the art of persuading individual so that, they
would make efforts for willingly with respect to the attainment of objectives. In Tesco,
employees are criticized for different factors such as poor performance, inadequate
accountability, inefficiency, lack of flexibility, as well as, red tape in organisation. In Tesco,
leadership is associated with hierarchical relationship (Akhtar, et. al., 2016).
This investigation emphasizes on addressing the impact of different leadership styles like
democratic, autocratic as well as, laissez-faire and their impact on performance of employees
within company. After completion of this investigation, readers would gain their understanding
regarding which leadership style could be suitable for employees with respect to providing them
higher extent of work satisfaction and the accomplishment of their career. It is also effective for
Tesco to address the great leaders that can enhance the performance of employees as well as, can
lead the company to get success (Akhtar, and Khan, 2015).
Research Objectives
 To address the impact of Autocratic Leadership Style on Employee Performance
 To discover the impact of Laissez-Faire Leadership Style on Employee Performance
 To identify the impact of Democratic Leadership Style on Employee Performance
Proposed methodologies:
Research design

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A mixed research design would be implemented in this investigation to attain objectives of the
research. This research design will be selected because it involves features related to both
qualitative and quantitative research design. In such way, qualitative research design is beneficial
for obtaining the theoretical information regarding the impact of leadership style on employee
performance of Tesco. This data would be captured through interview. Along with this,
quantitative research design would aid to capture the numeric information related to research
issues. This data would be captured through the survey through a questionnaire (Edinger-Schons,
et. al., 2018).
Data collection method
Both primary and secondary data collection method would be applied in this investigation to
address the investigation issues. Primary data would be gathered through the different sources
such as survey through questionnaire as well as, interview as it would provide fresh and reliable
data. 50 employees would be selected from Tesco for the survey through questionnaire and 10
managers would be selected from Tesco for conducting an interview. Along with this, secondary
data would be effective for obtaining the authentic data through secondary sources like academic
publications, textbooks, journal articles, and online websites (Johnson, et. al., 2018).
Data analysis method
In this investigation, statistical data analysis method would be used to assess the quantitative data
that would be gathered by the survey through the questionnaire. Moreover, Ms-excel software
would be used to develop the pie-charts, bar-chart and column diagram. This would be beneficial
for comprehending the pooled data in a meaningful way. Along with this, the content analysis
would be used to assess the qualitative data captured through the interview (Akhtar, and Khan,
2015).

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References
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Edinger-Schons, L.M., Lengler-Graiff, L., Scheidler, S. and Wieseke, J., 2018. Frontline
employees as corporate social responsibility (CSR) ambassadors: A quasi-field
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Johnson, S., Robertson, I., Cooper, C.L., Dickinson, J. and Jones, N., 2018. Tesco Bank
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