Leadership & Management: Influencing Performance at Workplace Level

This essay discusses the aspect of leadership focused on positively influencing employee performance. It highlights how leaders can motivate employees to increase output by understanding their needs and providing monetary and non-monetary benefits. The article emphasizes the interrelation between leadership style, organizational culture, and job satisfaction, and the importance of addressing employee queries and issues. An example is provided to illustrate how leaders in a sales department can motivate employees to exceed targets through specific guidance and incentives, fostering organizational development and economic growth. The essay references articles that show leaders strive to create synergy by motivating and influencing employees to perform better and more effectively.

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Contents
Specific aspect of leadership.......................................................................................................................1
Summarizing the aspect of leadership.........................................................................................................1
Example for leadership aspect to improve leadership at the workplace level..............................................1
References...................................................................................................................................................2

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Specific aspect of leadership
The aspect of leadership is to influence the performance of employees in the positive manner.
The main purpose to choose this aspect is based on the consistent use of this aspect by the leader
in this ramified economic world. It has been observed that the leaders not only influence their
subordinates in the positive manner but also assist them to increase the output.
Summarizing the aspect of leadership
In this article, it is divulges that leadership style, organizational culture, job satisfaction are
interrelated to each other’s. Leaders endeavoured towards evaluating all the internal and external
factors of employees to motivate and promote them to render best level of services in their job.
This article has also depicted the leaders not only resolve employee’s queries and issues but also
motivates towards rendering best level of services in organization (Mulki, Caemmerer, Heggde,
2015). The strength of this article is that it shows leaders strive to create synergy by motivating
and influencing employees to perform better and effective. The main weakness of the article is
related to the lack of practical approach while depicting the aspect of leadership related to job
performance.
Example for leadership aspect to improve leadership at the workplace level
Leadership is accompanied by the several aspects which direct and navigate employees to
perform better and effective. This could be understood with the simple example.
Employees working in the sales department of the XYZ Company are endeavouring towards
achieving the targets. Leaders by suggesting the particular way of working and offering them
extra monetary and non-monetary benefits could motivate them to perform better than the
expected targets. This will not only increase the overall efficiency of the employees and
organization but also establish the proper nexus between the organizational development and
economic growth (Sousa, and Van Dierendonck, 2016). This aspect of leadership style focuses
on the influencing the working behaviour of employees and motivating them to perform better
than the set targets and goals. Leaders understand what employees needs and how to satisfy those
needs in best effective manner in the interest of organization and employees at large. This aspect

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of leadership encourages employees to perform better and they also inclined towards getting
ideas and feel motivated by working under the guidance of leader (Israel, 2018).
References
Israel, A.N., 2018. Chief Executive Officer Leadership Role and Small and Medium Enterprises
Performance in Southwest Nigeria. IJAME.
Mulki, J.P., Caemmerer, B. Heggde, G.S., 2015. Leadership style, salesperson's work effort and
job performance: the influence of power distance. Journal of Personal Selling & Sales
Management, 35(1), pp.3-22.
Sousa, M. and Van Dierendonck, D., 2016. Introducing a short measure of shared servant
leadership impacting team performance through team behavioral integration. Frontiers in
psychology, 6, p.2002.