Analysis of Leadership and Management Objectives for JD Sports

This report analyzes leadership and management practices within JD Sports, a British sports fashion retail company. It explores the importance of effective management and leadership in achieving organizational goals, particularly in a globalized and diverse workforce. The report discusses various leadership theories, including the Great Man theory, Trait theory, Situational theory, and Transformational theory, recommending the latter for its potential to motivate employees and foster innovation within JD Sports. Furthermore, it examines management styles such as democratic, persuasive, and laissez-faire, advocating for the democratic approach to encourage employee participation and improve job satisfaction. The report emphasizes the need for ethical decision-making, technological integration, work-life balance, and equal opportunities to create a productive and efficient workforce, ultimately contributing to increased profitability and brand image.

Management and
Leadership Objectives

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Managers and leaders play an important role in improving the efficiency and
effectiveness of an organisation in achieving its long term goals by effectively coordinating and
organising various activities (Terziev, Georgiev and Georgiev, 2017). Managers help in
planning, organising, budgeting, controlling and executing activities in organisation while the
leaders focus on leading the employees, allocating roles and responsibilities among them,
monitoring their work etc. In this report JD Sports is taken which is a British sports fashion retail
company that offer sportswear, accessories and other products to its customers. In this report the
management and leadership styles along with the theories that can be applied by mangers and
leaders will be discussed so that highly efficient working environment can be created within an
organisation.
Main Body
As the businesses are expanding in global markets the composition of workforce is
changing with employees belonging to various caste, sex, backgrounds, nationality etc. working
together and coordinating their efforts so as to achieve organisational objectives. It is also
important that managers and leaders change their styles of managing staff so that effective
working environment can be established (Hamilton, 2018). It is essential that ethical decisions
are made in organisation so that benefits of all the stakeholders can be maximised along with
enhancing trust of employees in practices of organisation. It is also important that technology is
given importance in organisation, risks and ambiguity is managed, work-life balance of
employees is increased and equal opportunities are given to employees. All these actions are
important to be taken by managers and leaders so that highly productive and efficient workforce
can be developed which can help in increasing profitability of organisation. Following are
management and leadership theories that can be applied in JD Sports:
 Great man theory of leadership: It is one of the earliest theories which assume that
leadership is an inborn phenomenon in which natural leaders are born with skills like
communication, interaction, social aptitude etc. so that they can lead others (Ishiyama,
Breuning and Widmeier, 2018).
 Trait theory: This theory believes that leaders are born with leadership traits which help
them in handling situations effectively along with leading the staff members. Some of the

important traits of leaders are intelligence, accountability, sense of responsibility and
creativity etc. These traits help a person in becoming successful leaders so that they can
effectively manage workers and get work done on time.
 Situational theory: As per this theory leaders need to change their behaviour depending
on situational variables and they consider themselves more competent than others in
handling certain situation.
 Transformational theory: This theory is based on the idea of building relations so that
the employees can be encouraged and inspired to use their capabilities and skills in an
efficient manner. In this theory the leaders motivate the staff members in completely
using their potential so that their performance can be improved (Masuda and
Kostopoulos, 2016).
The above theories can be used by leaders and managers in JD Sports so that they can bring
effective changes in organisation which can help in dealing with stations in an efficient manner.
Transformational theory is the best theory that can be applied in JD Sports as it help in
motivating employees so that they can accept change which will help in bringing innovation in
organisation. Also by continuous motivation of employees technologies can be effectively used
in improving the overall functions in organisation. In order to easily accept the new normal this
theory can help in improving decision making in organisation so that confidence of employees
can be gained and organisational profits can be increased.
It is also essential that effective leadership and management styles are used so that the
employees can be managed in such a manner which can help in directing their efforts towards
achieving organisational objectives. Following are the management styles that can be used in JD
Sports so that effective working environment can be established:
 Democratic management style: Under this style the management invites the employees
to take part in decision making by coming up with their independent ideas and opinions
so that decisions which can help in increasing their job satisfaction can be taken. This
style helps in encouraging employees thereby improving their performance and
productivity so that highly effective results can be achieved (Meng and Yang, 2018).
 Persuasive management style: In this style the mangers control all the decision making
but they spend more time with employees and manage effective relations with them so

that they can be persuaded to perform a particular work in a manner desired by the
managers.
 Laissez-faire management style: In this style the tasks are delegated among workers and
they are given full control regarding decision making which gives confidence to workers
so that they fulfil their responsibilities in an efficient manner. The managers in this style
adjust their managing ways so as to suit the requirements of workers.
Managers in JD Sports should use democratic management style so that the decisions can be
made by taking views and opinions of employees into account so that highly efficient results can
be achieved. Also the leaders must increase participation of employees in making decisions so
that highly efficient results can be achieved (Ramírez-Correa, 2017). This will also help JD
Sports in improving its brand image in market through improved job satisfaction among
employees which can also help in enhancing the ethical decision making in company so that
highly efficient results can be achieved. This can also help the employees in accepting the new
normal so that they can use their skills and help the company in achieving its objectives.
Conclusion
From this report it can be said that efficient leadership and management theories and
styles must be adopted in an organisation which can help them in responding effectively to the
changing conditions in market. Also this can help an organisation in managing the efforts of
employees so that they can be motivated to improve their performance thereby enhancing
profitability of organisation.

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Masuda, A.D. and Kostopoulos, K.C., 2016. Performance in Teams: The Role of Conflict-
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Meng, Y., Yu, H., Ma, Z. and Yang, Z., 2018. The impact of young Chinese employees’ notions
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