Leadership Styles Report: Leading Change and Styles

This report provides an overview of different leadership styles and their application in leading organizational change. It begins by highlighting the importance of adapting leadership approaches to effectively manage and implement change within an organization. The report explores various leadership styles, including autocratic, transformational, transactional, charismatic, democratic, cross-cultural, laissez-faire, coaching, and visionary leadership styles. Each style is defined and explained, with a discussion of its characteristics and potential applications. The report emphasizes that the choice of leadership style should align with the specific changes the company aims to implement, ensuring employee motivation and overall success. The report is concluded with the references.

Understanding and Leading
Change

Table of Content
• Introduction
• Various leadership approaches
• Conclusion
• References

Understanding leading change prepares organisation
to meet the difficulty that comes with initiating and
implementing change. Organisations change
management have become permanent features of the
business scenery.
Introduction

For a leader it is essential to applies different leadership style in a organisation to overcome
or resolve the different situation in the business. There are some leaders who face difficulty
to work with the high degree followers or employees who take part in decision making.
Various leadership approaches

Here are the leadership style which deals with different changes
to implemented.
• Autocratic leadership style:- In this leadership style company
is controlled by the boss. The leader holds all the responsibility
and authority to make decision as well as changes which are
required to be implemented in a organisation.
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• Transformational leadership style:- This leadership encourage the changes in
organisation, oneself and in the groups. These type leaders motives their employee to do
work more effectively & efficiently.
• Transactional leadership style:- In this leadership style employees get immediate
rewards for carry out the leaders order and punishment for not follow the leader's order.
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• Charismatic leadership style:- In this style
leader will inspire and motives their employee
to be better in terms of status as they don't
want to transform the organisation.
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• Democratic leadership style:- In this type of leadership style employees are involve in
decision making. Subordinates contributes in decisions or their involvement is very
important for them.
• Cross- culture leadership style:- This leadership style applies by those organisation
where they have different cultures in the company.
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• Laissez- faire leadership style:- This leadership style allows the employees to work
according to them. The leader is no going to interfere or employees can chose work
according to their minimal.
• Coaching leadership style:- In this leadership style leader will supervise and teach to
their employees. This leadership style is highly operational as the results and performance
of employee are improved.
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• Visionary leadership style:- The leader should be
visionary. The great leaders should have the vision
aspect as well. To be on the top leader should have
visionary context in them.
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Conclusion
From the above given information it is concluded that company is required to change its
leadership style according to the changes they want to implement. The leadership style is
chosen through which employees also get motivated.

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References