University Leadership and Its Impact on Business Performance

This report investigates the significant impact of leadership on business performance. It begins by identifying the challenges businesses face due to a lack of effective leadership, emphasizing the need for strategies to mitigate performance-related issues and ensure stakeholder balance. The research aims to provide strategies to improve organizational performance through leadership, focusing on transformational leadership. The methodology involves a positivism research philosophy, mixed data collection (primarily qualitative), and a deductive research approach. The report concludes that strong leadership, particularly transformational leadership, is crucial for organizational success and innovation, highlighting the importance of inspiring mission and purpose within the organization. The report references several scholarly articles supporting its findings and recommendations.

Running head: IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
Impact of Leadership in Business Performance
Name of the student:
Name of the university:

1IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
Table of Contents
1. Brief statement of the problem....................................................................................................2
2. Research aim and objectives........................................................................................................2
2.1 Aim........................................................................................................................................2
2.2 Objective................................................................................................................................3
3. Brief methodology.......................................................................................................................3
4. Summary......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

2IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
1. Brief statement of the problem
After considering the increasing rate of information System in the business organization
it has been found that, the due to lack of Human Resource leadership most of the businesses are
facing throughout major challenges (Cimirotic et al., 2017). Lack of leadership could lead a
business organization towards failure, thus proper issues mitigation strategies are needed to be
adopted to resolve the performance oriented issues. An organization will be referred to as an
effective one if a balance could be determined there in between the demands of different
stakeholders.
Proper leadership and communication must be served between the owners, employees,
consumers and community. This research will conduct onwards the role of leadership in
organizational performance. The growth of the organizations and the employees are influenced
by appropriate leadership and organizational performance (Bolman & Deal, 2017). This
particular research explores the role of leadership management in organizational performance.
After identifying the problem statement a research aim and objectives will be identified. A brief
methodology is also identified by following which the entire research work could be conducted
properly.
2. Research aim and objectives
2.1 Aim
Depending upon the current organizational trends the management trend is also required
to be modified. Every individual including the work header and other employees could
efficiently perform with the help of transformational leadership. The main aim of the research

3IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
report is to provide certain strategies through which the leadership could be conducted to
improve the organizational performance.
2.2 Objective
 To determine the role of Human Resource leadership management in
organizational performance
 To define different techniques through which the leadership could be improved
 To investigate on the current trends of leadership
3. Brief methodology
After considering the research topic on role of leadership management for improving the
organizational performance it is necessary to consider accurate research philosophy, research
approaches and data collection methods as well. For mitigating the identified issues of leadership
management, transformational leadership is required to be considered by the management
authority. Transparent and ethical transformational leadership will be helpful to combat the
leadership issues of organizations (Donate & de Pablo, 2015). Positive correlation is required to
be possessed by the management authority to increase the performance of every individual
including the employees and organizations as well.
Positivism research approach is one of the most appreciable research approaches among
positivism, realism and interpretivism. In order to explore all the hidden data and hidden facts
interpretivism and realism philosophy should be entirely avoided. For implementing proper
leadership management in the organizations deductive research approach should be adopted. In
other hand, for organizing the components of leadership in an accurate manner it is necessary to
collect mixed data from the resources considering both the primary and secondary data (Wang et

4IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
al., 2014). Instead of quantitative the researcher should concentrate on qualitative data. Rather
than questionnaires survey books and journals are needed to be considered. From the qualitative
data the quality of leadership that needs to be improved could be implemented accurately.
4. Summary
From the overall discussion it can be concluded that, an organization could gain
measurable success from the competitive market only after establishing a strong relationship
between organizational performance and transformational leadership. A transformational leader
could be identified as positive optimistic and trustful leaders who are intelligent enough to
promote all the project innovations (Bolman & Deal, 2017). Even an organizational culture could
also be changed through inspiring the mission sense and purpose of organizational performances
as well. After considering the topic, it has been in order to conduct the research report positivism
research philosophy, mixed data collection and deductive research approaches are required to be
identified. Not only has this but also for this particular research works instead of quantitative
data more concentration should be provided on quantitative data.

5IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
References
Birasnav, M. (2014). Knowledge management and organizational performance in the service
industry: The role of transformational leadership beyond the effects of transactional
leadership. Journal of Business Research, 67(8), 1622-1629.
Bolman, L. G., & Deal, T. E. (2017). Reframing organizations: Artistry, choice, and leadership.
John Wiley & Sons.
Cimirotic, R., Cimirotic, R., Duller, V., Duller, V., Feldbauer-Durstmüller, B., Feldbauer-
Durstmüller, B., ... & Hiebl, M. R. (2017). Enabling factors that contribute to women
reaching leadership positions in business organizations: The case of management
accountants. Management Research Review, 40(2), 165-194.
Donate, M. J., & de Pablo, J. D. S. (2015). The role of knowledge-oriented leadership in
knowledge management practices and innovation. Journal of Business Research, 68(2),
360-370.
Wang, H., Sui, Y., Luthans, F., Wang, D., & Wu, Y. (2014). Impact of authentic leadership on
performance: Role of followers' positive psychological capital and relational
processes. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 35(1), 5-21.