BUSN20019: Professional Project on Leadership and Management

This professional project delves into the realm of Human Resource Management, specifically focusing on leadership and management styles. The research aims to understand how effective leadership and management contribute to employee loyalty and provide organizations with a competitive advantage. The project utilizes peer-reviewed journals as a source of secondary data, allowing for an analysis of experienced scholars' insights. The research question explores the effectiveness of leadership in the modern business world in helping organizations gain a competitive advantage. Key search terms include leadership, management, transformational leadership, and job satisfaction. The project incorporates three scholarly articles that examine transformational leadership, employee empowerment, and their impact on job satisfaction and service quality. The project adheres to the BUSN20019 assessment criteria, emphasizing the importance of a clear research statement, appropriate data sources, and relevant analysis.

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Statement
The field of research undertaken is on the Human Resource Management. The topic in
focus is leadership and management style. The reason for the choice of the field is that
effective and supporting leadership along with management style is required for organisations
to retain the loyalty of the employees and gain a competitive advantage over the market.
Source of secondary data
The source of secondary data is the peer-reviewed journals. The reason for choosing
this particular source of data so that effective analysis of the experienced scholars can be
taken into account. The various experiences that are described can help in understanding the
topic properly and at the same time enhance the quality of the research. The publicly
available source for using secondary data can be obtained by visiting libraries or by visiting
websites that provide access to the peer reviewed journals.
Research question
What is the effectiveness of leadership in the modern business world that helps
organisations gain a competitive advantage over its rivals?
Search terms
The search terms that are used to identify and analyse the topic include:
 Leadership
 Management
 Transformational leadership
 Job satisfaction

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These terms help in identifying the topic clearly and ensure that the importance and
implication of leadership along with management styles is understood.
Three scholarly articles
The common factor that combines the topic includes leadership. Without proper
leadership and management, it can be difficult to retain employees and provide them with the
satisfaction that they seek in a job. The articles include:
 Transformational leadership, empowerment, and job satisfaction: the mediating role
of employee empowerment
 Advances in leader and leadership development: A review of 25 years of research and
theory
 Can peers’ ethical and transformational leadership improve coworkers’ service
quality? A latent growth analysis

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Reference
Choi, S. L., Goh, C. F., Adam, M. B. H., & Tan, O. K. (2016). Transformational leadership,
empowerment, and job satisfaction: the mediating role of employee
empowerment. Human resources for health, 14(1), 73.
Day, D. V., Fleenor, J. W., Atwater, L. E., Sturm, R. E., & McKee, R. A. (2014). Advances
in leader and leadership development: A review of 25 years of research and
theory. The Leadership Quarterly, 25(1), 63-82.
Schaubroeck, J. M., Lam, S. S., & Peng, A. C. (2016). Can peers’ ethical and
transformational leadership improve coworkers’ service quality? A latent growth
analysis. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 133, 45-58.