Tesco: Leadership Styles, Organizational Performance, and Diversity

This report examines various leadership styles and models, focusing on their impact on organizational performance, culture, and diversity management within Tesco. It covers autocratic, democratic, and bureaucratic leadership styles, assessing their effectiveness in different situations. The report also evaluates contingency, situational, and behavioral leadership theories, alongside motivation theories like Vroom's expectancy theory and Adam's equity theory. Furthermore, it explores how leadership influences organizational culture, diversity, and overall business practices, emphasizing the importance of effective communication, management skills, and innovative thinking for achieving organizational goals.

Leadership Report
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Leadership styles and models..................................................................................................................3
Impact of leadership on organizational performance...............................................................................4
Leadership models...................................................................................................................................5
Evaluate and understanding their leadership theories and theories of motivation....................................6
Impact of leadership on organizational culture and diversity management..............................................7
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The term leadership is a capability to influence group of people and motivate other
people in business organizations to accomplish their goals and objectives (Abasilim, Gberevbie
and Osibanjo, 2019). To be an effective leadership in business organization their vision, mission
and objectives towards accomplished in particular systematic manner and creating a planning to
secure resources to improving their errors. For this assessment, selected organization is Tesco is
a British multinational retailer which is given number of goods and services to its customers and
it includes a food product, clothing product and many others. This report covers leadership styles
and models focus on theorist and different leadership styles understand their leadership theory
style, application different situation, how they can impact their organizational performance and
business practices and also impact their organizational culture and diversity management for
their business organization.
MAIN BODY
Leadership styles and models
Leadership style should be determined that they can provide a direction and
implementing their plans for a leaders to accomplish their goals and objectives and motivate to
other people in the business organization. It should be consist of various styles such as
authoritarian, participative, democratic, Laissez-faire and many more.
Autocratic leadership style: A leader who adopts this type of styles it could be
determined that there are various policies and procedures are direct their work towards
accomplish their goals and objective without looking for anything for input from them. It would
be expected that complete their task under supervision and less creativity for their leadership
styles (Bean and Migliore, 2021). This leadership style makes decisions on behalf of
subordinates and what is to be done but also how those tasks should be accomplished. In case of
Tesco, leaders are extremely task oriented with low interest the collaborative decision making
there are full control over their team in motivating teams to the rules and regulations according to

their punishments. Leadership and effective can be total control over their workers with global
motivations and lack of employee satisfaction highly staff turnover.
Democratic leadership styles: This leadership style includes a group member in
decision-making process and it is also famed as a participative leadership. They should be
encourage each and every member in business organization to participate and share their
opinions use their knowledge and skills in the business organizations to take a decision making
process and encourages quality contribution from workers. This type of leadership style is an
opportunity to participate exchange their opinions and discussions to be encouraged will need to
provide their guidance and maintain their goals and objective in business organization. With
context to Tesco, manager use this style because the they have a take more role in a decision
making process and it is easily one of most effective way to higher productivity better
contributions and worker need to discuss their resolve an issue by someone giving an opportunity
to contribute such decisions (Cansoy, 2019).
Bureaucratic leadership style: This type of style is a very highly formalized which is
set of process rules and regulation the business organization and structure should be followed
with a clear expectations as well as their explicit chain of command. This feature is very
effective for business organizations because rules and regulation has been created to be possible
for more than one employed to produce results and different tasks should be carried out.
Manager of Tesco determined that this style is very adapted to a better administrators and focus
on results and performance where chain of command and answer in board of director. This
leadership style is utilized in various industries or sector that requires a safety standards and legal
regulations as well as their creative industry new ideas, discourages individuality and
collaboration.
Impact of leadership on organizational performance
Leadership should be an important function in business organization where they can
represent a difference between business concept and other with having a set of clear expectation
and vision between their individuals who are liable for completing their vision (Fan, Jun and
Wolfstetter, 2019). Management and coordination are various economic resources have
important impact their organization performance.

Setting the tone: Small business organization are accomplish their goals and objectives
within which firm operate company and minimum level of expectations of workers behavior they
can policies and guidelines also give business managers are ability to remove their performing
workers from their company.
Feature: Successful business organization performance are rely on proper behavior of
manager and employee and can process who provide leadership can transform their workers to
complete their task and had to change their workers mentality who believe they have that they
have a direct honest relationship between to improve their attitude and productivity (Hunter,
2020).
Warning: Leadership has a direct and negative impact on organizational performance
where they can overly obsess to achieve their goals and objective in business organization.
Managers and workers may be willing less likely to be extremely critical lead us to accomplish
their goals and objective has to create a business relationship and other managers and company is
our avoid who constantly request the financial benefits.
Types: This type of leadership describe that autocratic democratic and Laissez faire
leadership can impact their organization performance in a different way where they can have a
author having a set of their expectations from workers in organizational and democratic and
provide feedback from values and regarding organizational performance and less is there
according to their own performance and schedule from the manager and employee they have a
poor motivations and work practices.
Leadership models
Leadership model should be defined at a unique applications where others leaders
different guide to their specific leadership behavior and how their effective for a specific
environment of situation. This style is a represent their individual and combinations workplace
culture and fulls their different leadership models (Ozga, 2021).
Situational leadership models: This situation and leadership model provides a
framework to match their behavior with the performance according to their business organization
expectations and group they are attempting to influence. They are meant to be effective leaders
and followers and provides a framework to analyze a basic situation which is based on

performance and necessary amounts to relationship even task they were applied to communicate
in order to support their needs and advancement development.
Team oriented leadership model: It should be represent that they create a collaborative team
working environment which need to be focused with different for each and every team member
and to encourage their highest potential as a individuals through collaboration that motivations.
This ratio is style are tends to be more effective in terms of their productivity and profitability for
employee satisfaction and employee engagement it should be include coaching affiliative,
participative and many more (Setzler, 2019).
Evaluate and understanding their leadership theories and theories of motivation
Contingency theory: To evaluate and understand their contingency theory of leadership
of focus a particular variable related their business environment what particular style has been
treated according to this theory it is based on all situations where would leaders have strive
between their behavior and needs.
Situational theory: This theory should be determined that they can choose a best quotes
of actions upon this pressure variables and different type of decision making are involved in the
situational theory.
Behavioral theory: This type of theory is determined upon their belief that good leaders
are made not born so that a focus on actions of leadership of the mental quality of dental is this
theory people can learn to become a leader through teaching and observation.
Theories of motivation
Victor vroom expectancy theory: There is a theory which depends upon their certain
alternatives whose main goal is to maximize their pleasure and pain where employee
performance based on the individual such as personality skill knowledge and capabilities this
theory is based upon certain believe such as valence expectancy and instrumentality (Stoker,
Garretsen and Soudis, 2019)
Valence represent motion orientation people hold to respect their outcomes.

Expectancy have a different expectation about the business organization of culture and
level of confidence about what they are capable of doing.
Instrumentality at perception of workers where they can actually get what the desire and
must and sure about their promises to fulfilled and workers are aware of that.
Adams equity theory: This theory considered that it should be a model of motivation
where they can says that compare a sense of contributions of that will be affect their motivation
and concept of quality as well as their significant to comparison with others. It says that
individual wants a relationship between their input and output and benefits received from work
in relation to the inputs which they have to given (Supermane, 2019). They want to others
receive for work as a reward for work and similar to their reward won't receive for same level of
contribution. Adam equity theory maintain a relationship between performance and reward in
comparison to others and individual contributions for which they can expect certain rewards to
evaluate their exchange they can compare is input and output with those try to rectify their
clarity. This study shows that all benefits related to their employee motivation that still
promotions and desired effect to undermine their motivation of the workers. It should be ensured
that they can treat their workers differently and unfair that leads to a bad damage a lot of people
motivations. Contributions and benefits related to Adams theory of motivation says that
relationship between inputs and outputs means contribution and benefits has a significant impact
of universe and equity and don't understand their type of thing about input and the benefits. For a
working relationship, it should be considered that it need to pass a test where they can test 1 is
equity of reward in input and test 2 equity of reward and peer reward.
Impact of leadership on organizational culture and diversity management
Organization culture can importantly affect their organizations ability of calculated to
leaders can share the organization business environment for both positive and negative ways.
Culture can also affect their leadership as much as they affect culture media responsible for
creating a system that improve their organizational culture and inform their workplace norms
where they can cultural norms in workplace or adapt their actions of a leaders here that ensures
to focus on how they can react a behavior of model (Switzer, 2020)

Impact of leadership have a impact on diversity management for both inclusive and
exclusive leadership are also influence whether and how diversity can create a social identity
data related to the work or not in group and out group of the work. It is important in diversity in
leadership theory can enter motivation of business organization capability to form an action with
customers and other business organization also they have a diverse relationship between team
and financial performance.
Leader should be influences and impact on company's culture we are there in a agenda to
work, manage, lead and strong leaders provide a vision mission and purpose for inspiration those
who have lead because they can accomplish their personal and professional success.
Organizational culture with functions of culture it can also important for higher quality and
safety, better work life balance, excellent customer service, greater attention and also growing
profitability in the business organization (Abasilim, Gberevbie and Osibanjo, 2019).
CONCLUSION
From the above information, it has been understood that leadership is to motivate other
people and influence other members in business organization. Sometimes, it is difficult to create
a clear vision and parts to follow accomplish their goals. An effective leader should possess their
following features which are named as communication, management skills, innovative thinking,
and willingness to take risk, self-confidence. In this report various topics are to be covered such
as leadership styles, models, theory of leadership and how they can impact their organizational
performance and diversity management.

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