Leadership Styles Report: Leadership Styles Analysis and Comparison

This report delves into the realm of leadership, comparing and contrasting autocratic and democratic leadership styles. It examines the core principles of each approach, highlighting their respective strengths and weaknesses. The report then provides real-world examples by analyzing the leadership styles of Carly Fiorina at HP and Michael T. Duke at Wal-Mart, illustrating how these leaders applied different strategies to achieve success within their organizations. The analysis includes the role of leadership in managing people and business processes, emphasizing the importance of adaptability and the ability to make critical decisions. The report concludes by underscoring the significance of effective leadership for organizational growth and the potential for leaders to also be effective managers.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Comparing and contrasting..............................................................................................................2
Role of leadership in people mentioning.........................................................................................3
Carly Fiorina as a leader in HP....................................................................................................3
Michael T. Duke as a leader in Wal-Mart....................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
Leadership is highly required to manage different operations and critical situations in companies.
There are different types of leadership in the market. Leadership is necessary to manage people
and business processes of a company (Raza, 2017).
This report will compare and contrast two leadership’s types, which are autocratic leadership and
democratic leadership through various points. It will also explain about the management of
people through an example.
A leader can work as a manager within an organization, but a manager always should be a leader
for managing different critical situations in the company.
Comparing and contrasting
A leader can manage people in an organization through his leadership ability. Leaders possess
many skills to manage different business processes of an organization, such as the ability to take
responsibility, motivating, and being visionary. In the present era, two types of leadership are
used in organizations, which are autocratic leadership and democratic leadership. In autocratic
leadership, the manager sets missions for employees and monitors them properly. In the other
hand, democratic leadership considers participation in decision-making (Bolden, 2016).
Democratic leadership might be slower than autocratic leadership because of the freestyle of
work. Workers are not having any burden. It few cases, it is good and provides better results,
such as research and development ( Cherry, 2018).
Autocratic leadership provides direct communication and provides a proper business goal to
achieve in a given period (Tseng & Levy, 2018). Both types of leadership are similar in missions
design, as they decide about their goals in starting. There is a big advantage in democratic
leadership that they have more involvement in decision-making (Clapp-Smith, et al., 2009).
Managers are authentication to employees, which makes more capable and responsible, such as
Google. Google owners are the best example of democratic leadership in which they manage
their work successfully with supportive and co-operative working style. However, democratic

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leadership can be considered as less strong as all the members are part of a decision ( Hoch, et
al., 2016). A leader is responsible for the growth of an organization, as a leader can manage their
followers through different approaches (Day, et al., 2014). A leader should have different skills
and it is the best way to make followers through different qualities, such as teamwork, honesty,
leadership, motivation, and many others (www.gsblsu.org, 2018). Leader and manager are
having few similarities and differences. A leader should have management qualities to manage
their works in different situations.
Role of leadership in people mentioning
Leadership plays a huge role in the success of the organization, as leaders make good decisions
about growth and successes of organization in future perspective. Managers have dedicated task
to perform in a day but leaders have extra responsibility with management of task as well as the
critical situation in those tasks (Vella, 2013). In this report, it takes two leaders from two
different companies, which are Carly Fiorina from HP Company, and Michael T. Duke from
Wal-Mart Company. Both leaders are following different leadership styles and both are
successful in their business ( McConnell, 2018).
Carly Fiorina as a leader in HP
Carly Fiorina is CEO of Hewlett-Packard Development Company (HP0. HP has established in
1939. It was popular for developing and manufacturing printers, computers, hardware, software,
and more devices. Leaders make successful to HP, as their motivation makes employees work
hard for the organization. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard have been founded HP in the United
States.
In the year 1954, Carly Fiorina took birth and then graduated from Stanford University. Besides,
in 1999, Fiorina worked as the CEO of HP organization. In addition to that, Fiorina is a capable
leader in HP Company. Prior to taking the CEO position at the company, she was encountering
years of a depressing time. Later then, Fiorina has started her career as a receptionist, and hence
acquired the positions of management and leader soon. Apart from this, Fiorina was an excellent
communicator as well as her speech was convincing as similar the Ex-president Bill Clinton.

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Michael T. Duke as a leader in Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart is famous and popular retailers in the whole world. It has 4000 stores, which are
running around the world. Mike Duke is the CEO of Wal-Mart Stores as well as president of the
company. He leads his team that is considering Wal-Mart’s mission of “saving people money so
they can live better” relevant to its clients. He has joined the company and he provides many
efforts to make a good position of the company in the market as a leader. Duke has managed
different departments of the company, such as divisions of logistics, administration, distribution,
and many more.
Conclusion
Leadership is required to manage different functions of a company and it makes many things
possible, which can be completed by a leader only. Transformational leadership is necessary to
manage employees with motivation and teamwork, as compared to positive leadership. Positive
leadership makes employees in favor of leaders and makes them more energetic for their work in
different situations works.
This report has described two leaders, which are from HP and Wal-Mart. Leaders are responsible
for good changes in the company. In addition, they can make good changes in the operations of
the company.
Finally, a leader can be a good manager in a few cases, but a manager is always a good leader in
most of the cases. It will provide growth and success to the organization.

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