Analysis of Leadership Role in Virgin Group's Business Strategy

This report examines the leadership role within the Virgin Group, specifically focusing on the impact of delegation on its business strategy and performance. The report begins by defining the role of leadership in the company, emphasizing the importance of delegation and how it fosters trust and responsibility among team members. It highlights how delegation allows managers to focus on strategic tasks, while also empowering employees to make decisions and take ownership of their work. The report discusses the benefits of delegation, such as increased productivity, improved employee morale, and the ability to adapt to challenges. The report also explores the role of leadership in promoting effective communication, setting clear expectations, and providing support to employees. The report concludes by emphasizing the significance of delegation in the success of the Virgin Group and its ability to maintain a competitive edge in the market.

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1 Role of delegation leadership style in Virgin Group
Virgin group is technology focused organisation with 35 companies in different
countries. It is focusing on travel and leisure, telecom and media, health and financial services.
Delegation leadership is leadership style in which the manager provides task to their employees
and allow them to take decisions regarding their tasks. The manager is responsible for the
decisions which are taken by their subordinates (Johnston and Marshall, 2016). This leadership
style plays an important role in Virgin group as it strengthens the moral across the team
members. Role of delegation leadership style are defined as follows:
It ensures that team members are ready for taking responsibilities of their work. The
leader trusts its subordinates as they take responsibility to complete their work and take their
own decisions. In the organisation, delegation leadership helps in setting solid deadlines of the
work. The leader ensures that all the tasks are completed on time so that they can increase their
performance. It communicates the deadline of each project to its team members which helps
them to manager their work according to that.
This leadership style helps the leader to explain the things in right way. This means that
leader has to give proper explanation of their expectation from their employees (MacKian and
Simons, 2013). This will help them to know their goals and tasks which they have to achieve on
time. Proper explanation of needs of the project to the employees will assist them to take
effective decisions to complete their work.
Virgin group delegation leadership style helps them to prevent and control unusual
activities. The manager has to trust its employees while giving them power to make decisions
regarding their tasks and projects so that workers can work with more responsibility. This in turn
will increase their potential and performance. Further, the delegation leadership style help the
organisation to increase their productivity and sales as it reduces risks of burning out. The
workload on the managers and employees affects their health (Nahavandi, 2016). So, leaders
have to understand the problem and find effective solution to resolve the problems.
Delegate leadership assisted the organisation in concentrating more on growing their
business as the employees have trust on their company and putting their best efforts to increase
their productivity. Their skills and talents plays an important role in increasing the performance
of the company. Delegation helps the management to make plans, policies and coordinate and
control them. The organisation has to trust on their employees as well as management so that
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they can make effective decisions and strategies which will help them to face their competitors in
the market (O'Connor and et.al., 2014). Delegation helps the leaders of the Virgin group to
manage their tasks and focus on other difficult situations. This provides them time to concentrate
more on completing their tasks as other work is handled by its team members. This increases the
ability and efficiency of the managers as well as employees and encourages them to work with
full devotion.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Johnston, M. W. and Marshall, G. W., 2016. Sales force management: Leadership, innovation,
technology. Routledge.
MacKian, S. and Simons, J., 2013. Leading, managing, caring: understanding leadership and
management in health and social care. Routledge in association with The Open
University.
Nahavandi, A., 2016. The Art and Science of Leadership -Global Edition. Pearson.
O'Connor, G. C. and et.al., 2014. January. Organizing for breakthrough innovation: leadership,
structures, and processes. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2014, No. 1, p.
12870). Academy of Management.
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