CECOS College: Authentic Leadership Report - Covid-19 Crisis Lessons

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of authentic leadership within organizations, focusing on the lessons learned from the Covid-19 crisis. It explores the importance of leadership in shaping organizational culture and achieving goals. The report delves into various leadership theories, including situational, transformational, and behavioral theories, critically evaluating their contributions to leadership development. It examines the role of leadership in contemporary organizations, highlighting key aspects such as evidence-based decision-making, communication, and responding to customer priorities. The report also provides recommendations for effective leadership, such as setting goals, delegating tasks, and strengthening team alignment. Finally, the report concludes by emphasizing the significance of authentic leadership in fostering organizational growth and development, particularly in the context of challenges like the Covid-19 pandemic, using examples like Tesco to illustrate its points.

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INTRODUCTION
The report of authentic leadership will
comprehensively analyse the role of leadership in the organization.
Leadership is an important pillar of the organization, as it defines the
culture and motivation of the enterprise which is essential for the goal
achievement. Report will elaborate the role of leadership in the
contemporary organization by highlighting the dynamics of the
leadership. Further, various theories like situational, transformational and
behavioural theories will be explained
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CONCLUSION
The above report has collectively described
the leadership which is an essential element of any
organization, small or big. Its effect in shaping the culture of
the organization. as Tesco is a big organization which is also an
old player in the market has prominent leadership style which
has contributed in the growth and development of the
organization.
Critical evaluation of theories, concepts,
practises relating to leadership:
With the progress of time there has been number
of theory, models, concepts etc. in attempt to add
on in the leadership and its development.
With this regard, new theories such as
“Situational leadership theory” got evolved. It
changed the perspective of extending leadership.
The theory of situational leadership says that there
is no single style of leadership which is best.
Transformational theory of leadership says that
the leaders are supposed to set examples in order
to bring transformation in the behaviour of
employee and keeping their morale up. As it was
seen that compares to other organizations the job
loss at Tesco was very much lower. The
At the same time, the “Relationship theory” of
leadership also paid great contribution. The
management and higher level of leadership at
Tesco faced the issue that there had been some
issues in term of collaboration since people were
working form different areas.
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