Contemporary Leadership: Theories, Tools, and Recommendations

This presentation examines various leadership styles, including transformational, situational, and democratic leadership, within the context of organizational success. It begins by highlighting the importance of leadership in motivating employees and achieving business goals. The presentation then delves into the strengths and weaknesses of each leadership style, such as transformational leadership's focus on change, situational leadership's adaptability, and democratic leadership's emphasis on collaboration. The presenter recommends the use of situational leadership, which is a flexible approach that enables leaders to understand and address employee needs effectively. The presentation concludes with a recommendation for leaders to adopt situational leadership to improve employee satisfaction and resolve workplace issues. The presentation includes references to academic sources that support the analysis of the leadership styles.

Organization and
Leadership

Introduction
• The purpose of this presentation is to enlighten the reader
with the information about the leadership practices
implemented by a leader in the business environment.
• The below mentioned presentation evaluate the
explanation of three theories in regards to the leadership
practices that people implement in the business
environment in order to attain success for the business.

Theories and Tools to Guide
Reflective Practices
• The fact should be noted that leadership is important for
companies in the business environment as it helps the
leaders to attain support of employees in the business
functions and increase sales of the company as well.
• Every leader initiate different leadership practice based
on their behaviour and characteristics (Bolman, and Deal
2017).

Importance of Leadership in
Organizational Context
• Adequate leadership helps the managers to ensure that the
employees are effectively motivated in the workplace
environment and they do not face any struggle in implementing
their business functions.
• Adequate leadership activities also helps the management in
guiding the employees in the right direction (Mullen, Kelloway,
and Teed 2017).
• Leadership helps the business to maintain unity in the functions
and attain sustainable competitive advantage as well.

Transformational Leadership
• Transformational leadership refers to the style of
leadership that involves the leader to identify changes in
the workplace environment and work accordingly.
• This type of leadership helps the leader to effectively
identify the trends prevailing in the environment and
introduce them in the business so as to achieve growth
and profitability (Dhir 2019).

Strengths
• The most beneficial aspect of this type of leadership style
is that it works on implementing change for the
betterment of the organization.
• This style is regarded as best leadership style based on
today’s market conditions.
• This type of leadership also foster creativity and
innovation and introduce it in business environment so as
to achieve competitive advantage (Hoch, et. al., 2018).

Weakness
• Weakness of this type of leadership is that it introduces
excessive changes in the business environment that makes
it difficult for the employees to manage with the regular
functions.
• Also, this type of leadership become chaotic many times
because of regular changes and adoption of new
strategies (Hawkins 2017).

Situational Leadership
• Situational leadership refers to the kind of leadership that
adopts several types of leadership in the workplace
environment based on the need of the time.
• This type of leadership analyses the present situation and
then initiate strategies to adopt differential leadership to
eliminate issues from the business (Bosse, et. al., 2017).

Strengths
• A situation leader is flexible who initiates changes in their
behavior according to the need of the environment or
another party.
• This type of leadership creates a favorable environment
for the employees to work.
• Also, it increases their level of satisfaction by eliminating
hindrance immediately after it has been occurred in
business (Lynch, et. al., 2018).

Weakness
• The biggest weakness of this type of leadership is that it
only focuses on fulfilling the immediate need developed in
the environment and leaves the long term vision of the
business behind (Thompson, and Glasø 2018).
• Wrong enactment of the leader under the wrong
circumstances could make the leader pay huge penalty in
the workplace environment.

Democratic Leadership
• This type of leadership is also known as participative
leadership under which the leader seeks opinion and
guidance of other members in the group so as to take a
collective decision.
• This type of leadership provides an equal vote to every
person present in the business environment.
• Collaboration and free flow of ideas is motivated by this
type of leader (Parés, Ospina, and Subirats 2017).

Strengths
• The strength of this type of leadership is that it provide
equal opportunity to every person or group to come and
express their views.
• Democratic leader does not pressurize the employees as
they work according to their capabilities and behavior.
• This type of leadership solves the complex problems easily
(Fiaz, Su, and Saqib 2017).

Weakness
• The biggest weakness of this type of leadership process is
that it could bring outburst of negative thought in the
employees that they could freely express in the business
environment.
• This type of leader procrastinate issues due to which they
fail to achieve desired results in the environment (Parés,
Ospina, and Subirats 2017).

Recommendation
• Thus, it is recommended to the make use of situation
leadership style in the business environment as use of this
style would help them to attain understanding of all the
leadership styles present in the environment.
• Situational leadership style would help the company to
effectively increase the satisfaction of the employees in
the business environment.

Continue
• Also, it is recommended that with the help of situational
style of leadership, the leaders could easily understand
the problems present with the employees and resolve
them as well.
• This type of leadership could make the employees aspire
that they could become like the leader someday.

Conclusion
• Thus, concluding the above mentioned facts, it should be
noted that the presentation reported details about the
analysis of different types of leadership styles prevailing
in the business environment.
• Three different types of leadership styles are discussed in
presentation, under which, it is suggested that the leader
should implement situational leadership in future.

References
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Cont.
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