A Comparative Analysis of Leadership Styles and Organizational Impact

This report provides an overview of different leadership styles, including autocratic, authoritative, pacesetting, democratic, coaching, affiliative, and laissez-faire styles. It examines the strategic approaches associated with each style and their respective impacts on organizational behavior and direction. The report highlights how each style influences employee motivation, decision-making processes, and the overall work environment. It also discusses the suitability of each style in different business contexts, referencing examples like Sainsbury plc. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of selecting the appropriate leadership style to achieve organizational goals and manage employees effectively. The report references key academic sources to support its findings.

Common leadership styles
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAINBODY....................................................................................................................................3
Strategic leadership styles and approaches.................................................................................3
Impact of these styles on organisational behaviour and directions. ..........................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTION
Leadership style is the method used by leader to influence its team, motivating and
implementing plans on people. There are various leadership style that are used by leaders in the
business environment(Jones II, 2020). This report covers comparison of leadership styles and
approaches, impact of these styles on organisational cultural.
MAINBODY
Strategic leadership styles and approaches
Leadership styles and approaches are different in every organisation. As there are various
leadership styles which are used in the business environment. These starts from Autocratic style
to laissez faire style. These are discussed below:
 Autocratic style: This is the first leadership style, in this leader believes that they are the
smartest persona and take decisions by their own. They do not consult anything from the
teammates. This style is suitable for certain situations like if there are new team
members or leader is inexperienced. This style is used in UK company called Sainsbury
plc.
 Authoritative style: In this style, leaders are confidence and they make decisions by
setting expectation and map on the way. They take time to make decisions and explain
their thinking.
 Pacesetting style: In this style, leaders push their team members to work hard and
achieve their goal in the organisation.
 Democratic style: Leaders share information with the team members and takes opinions
of employees while coming to the final decision.
 Coaching Style: In this leaders use coaching to give training to the employees. Leaders
helps employees in giving direction towards the achievement of goal(Mao and et.al.,
2020).
 Affiliative style: In this leaders make personal connection with the employees and
listens to their ideas. Leaders supports emotional meeds of team members.
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 Laissez faire style: It is the last style used in the organisation. As it gives people more
opportunities. In this leaders may appeal to trust on the employees working in the
business environment.
Impact of these styles on organisational behaviour and directions.
Autocratic leadership style focuses on the title “ do as I say”. As it does not involves the
employees opinions. This helps the organisation in non- wastage of time. Authoritative style
creates confident leaders who can take better decisions for the company. Democratic style
involves opinion of all employees. As it gives power to the employees to make innovative ideas.
This motivates employees and also create positive work environment. Pacesetting style, push
employees to work hard as this helps the organisation in achieving their goals and objectives
(Stoller, 2020). Coaching style provides direction to the team members and also guides them in
working hard for the organisation. And last Laissez faire style provides opportunities to the team
members and providing them direction. This all strategies required experienced leaders and also
they take regular feedbacks of the employees to evaluate their performance. This creates a
healthy environment in the organisation.
CONCLUSION
From above report it is concluded that different organisations uses different leadership
styles to manage their employees. These styles helps the companies in providing direction to the
employees or achieving goal of the organisation.
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REFERENCES
Jones II, J.I., 2020. How Leadership Style Influences Employee Emotional'Buy-in'and the
Extent that Employee Emotional'Buy-in'Impacts Performance (Doctoral dissertation,
Robert Morris University).
Mao, J and et.al., 2020. Impact of Teachers’ Leadership on the Creative Tendencies of
Students: The Mediating Role of Goal-orientation. Creativity Research Journal, pp.1-9.
Stoller, J.K., 2020. Leadership essentials for the chest physician: Emotional intelligence. Chest.
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