Leadership Styles: Transformational, Achiever, Strategist Comparison

This assignment analyzes and compares three leadership styles: transformational, achiever, and strategist, providing real-world examples of each. It then delves into organizational theory, contrasting scientific management with the human relations approach, outlining their advantages and disadvantages. The document further explores managerial roles, including interpersonal, decisional, and informational roles, and managerial authority, encompassing power and delegation. Finally, it examines different management approaches, specifically the bureaucratic and scientific approaches, providing examples of their application within NHS and TESCO respectively. The assignment includes references to support the concepts discussed.

TASK 2

Comparing the effectiveness of leadership styles
Transformational: These kind of leaders work together with
the employees to identify the needed change, creates the vision
to provide guidance for change through inspirations. For
instance, a leader in TESCO works with the store employees to
identify the change required in the outlet and provide guidance
to their employees during change.
Achiever: They accepts challenges and support the team
members. They create positive team and interdepartmental
atmosphere. For example, a leader in Hotel Marriott works
with their employees and accepts all the big challenges and
achieve them. This has make the company to reach the top in
UK.

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Strategist: Such leaders focus on organizational constraints
and perceptions. They are skilled leaders in creating shared
visions across different actions. For instance, a leader in
Burberry who identified the organizational focus and worked
upon it by creating vision with the employees.

Organizational Theory providing basis for the practice
of management
Scientific Management v/s Human Relation Approach:
Scientific management theory was propounded by Taylor in which he
gave 4 principles. If this is adopted than company can gain or loose:
 Better utilization of resources are done.
 Harmonious relations are maintained between employees and
employer.
 Helps in reducing cost of production.
 However, this theory is applied on simple organization thus, it cannot
be applied on the organization like SONY which is quite diversified.

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Human relation approach has been given by Elton Mayo.
Advantages and disadvantages are:
 The employees can be handled in a more better manner if
this approach is used.
 The humans are not always people friendly, they also makes
mistakes and errors which may cause major issue.

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Managerial Roles: There are many roles which a manger has
to play in order to manage the employees of an organization.
 Interpersonal roles: This includes interacting with all the
people of a company so that better working can be carry out.
 Decisional roles: In this manager has to take various
decisions that is strategic and tactical and also the daily
routine decisions. This eventually helps in the better
management of the employees.
 Informational roles: The manager should be informed well
in order to manage the organization. Without the
information manager cannot carry out any of the task.

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Managerial Authority: Manager has to possess some of the
authority in order to manage the company:
 Power: Manager has the power to take decisions and allot
the duties to the employees.
 Delegation: The manager has to possess the authority of
delegating the duties so that they can better manage the task
to be carried out.

Different approaches to management
NHS uses the Bureaucratic Approach to management as they
have to laid down the emphasis on authority structure &
description. This approach helps in maintaining the quality
standards and also the discipline is maintained. However, this
discourages the innovation and creativity since less individual
are involved in the decision making process.

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On the other hand, TESCO uses scientific approach for
managing the organization. Because this help in balancing the
company in a better manner. Best utilization of resources are
done. Whereas, it focus on individual effort and ignores group
efforts.

References
Allio, R., 2013. Leaders and leadership – many theories, but
what advice is reliable. Strategy & Leadership. 41(1). pp.4
– 14.
Bergin, E., 2009. On becoming a manager and attaining
managerial integrity. Leadership in Health Services. 22(1).
pp.58 – 75.
Dion, M., 2012. Ethical theories relevant for ethical leadership.
Leadership & Organization Development Journal. 33(1).
pp.4 – 24.

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