Managing and Leading People: Leadership Theories and Practices Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of leadership, examining various theories, approaches, and their impact on employee motivation and organizational success. It begins by defining leadership and highlighting key characteristics of effective leaders, such as confidence and communication skills. The report then delves into different leadership theories, including trait/born leadership and behavioral leadership, and explores their application in the workplace. It further identifies the roles of leaders, such as providing vision and inspiring others. The report also discusses different leadership approaches, including autocratic, democratic, and transformational leadership, and how to develop leadership skills. The importance of leadership in motivating employees and achieving organizational goals is also emphasized. Finally, the report concludes by summarizing the key findings and underscoring the significance of leadership in fostering employee commitment and driving organizational success. The report is a valuable resource for students seeking to understand and enhance their leadership capabilities.

MANAGING AND LEADING PEOPLE
INTRODUCTION
Leadership is based on the process which always influence people organizational success. it is helping
to increase efforts of others towards goal and achievement. A great leader always know how to motivate
or inspire better than anyone else. It is one of main function as possible for manager within
organization. Manager always attempt to analyse leadership tend to fail because of misconceives their
own tasks. The documentation will discuss about different leadership theories, approaches and also
identifying the characteristics, role of leader. Furthermore, it will describe that how developing
leadership skill which help for motivating other people in the organization.
Confidence: an effective leader has become confident towards their own
decision and ensure that other people follow the commands (Lemoine, Hartnell
and Leroy, 2019). Generally, it plays important role in enterprise to handle both
employee performance and efficiency in proper manner.
Commitment and Passion: It is also another important characteristic, when
always committed towards their business operation and function. It will help
leader to gain more respect of manager and establish the good relationship. An
effective leader always committed towards organizational goal and objective.
Good communicator: it is an essential characteristic in term of employee
engagement and exchange information. A good leader have effective
communication skill to interact with other staff member. In order to inspire or
motivate towards organizational objective.
CHARACTERISTICS OF LEADER
THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP
Born/trait leadership: this theory is mainly used to predict the effective leadership and generally
identified the characteristics, which compared to potential leaders and its current leading capabilities
(Shields and Hesbol, 2020). At workplace, Manager can use this leadership theory to identify the
suitable characteristics from different perspectives. In order to focus on the attributes of staff member in
term of education, qualification, background knowledge.
Behavioral leadership: In this theory, it is mainly focused on the specific behaviour, actions of leaders
rather than its current characteristics and traits (Shields and Hesbol, 2020). This theory has suggested
that effective leadership for learning new things. Furthermore, technical skills refer to leader’s
knowledge of process or method. It always support for running the business in smoothly. ROLES OF LEADERS
Provide vision: Leader can provide the specific vision for entire operational
team and also identifying their own opinion, thoughts and innovative idea . In
this way, each and every team member know the specific goal of practices.
Afterwards, it can be achieved the desirable organizational success.
Inspire or motivate: it is important aspects of leadership that mainly
influence or guide other participate who will have a common goal. Leader that
inspire to get specific feedback from individual person and ensure that each
one can improve own capabilities.

Autocratic leadership: In this leadership style, manager makes an effective decision without taking
input from other, who always report themselves. Staff members are not consulted or considered prior to
give direction.
Democratic Leadership: in this leadership, each and every group members are able to participate in
the decision-making process. A democratic leader that emphasis to maintain the equality among staff
members. Moreover, it always encouraging towards discussion and implement innovative idea.
Transformational Leadership: Like charismatic leader, it should adopt the transformational
leadership that always support for inspiring other people (Lemoine, Hartnell and Leroy, 2019). Leader
initiates towards transformation in term of employee performance improvement during various task
executions. Within enterprise, it has increased the demand of transformational leadership demand for
increasing the productivity as well as profitability in marketplace
TYPES OF LEADERSHIP APPROACHES
Practice discipline: A good leader need to require discipline so that they can
easily inspire other. In the organization, manager can judge the person on the
basis of their capacity and how lead by amount of discipline (Lemoine, Hartnell
and Leroy, 2019).
Developing situational awareness: A good leader is that when they can
anticipate the specific problem before they occur. It is most valuable skill to
have handling complex project within specific deadline. In this way, it is
important for developing self-awareness regarding business complex situation or
condition.
Importance of leadership on employees
The importance of leadership on staff member which inspire or motivate
towards organizational goal and objective. A leader can provide the information
about particular project that are running (Shields and Hesbol, 2020). In order to
keep track or moving forward by setting and enforcing deadlines. In this way, it
will help for increasing the capability and ability of employee in organization by
using leadership.
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it has concluded that Leadership is considered as important aspects for business
growth and development. It can provide the motivation or inspiration of staff members towards their
goal and achievement. Therefore, every manager should use leadership style to influence people in
order to increase efforts of others towards objective. Furthermore, it has summarised about the different
leadership theories, approaches and also identifying the characteristics, role of leader. However, it is
helping to develop leadership skill which support for motivating people in the workplace.
DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP SKILLS
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