PPMP20007 Leadership Styles and Effectiveness: A Report

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PPMP20007: Leadership

Table of contents
O Introduction
O Different styles of leadership
O Types of power used by leaders
O How to become good leader
O Good leadership attributes
O Pillars of leadership by Dr. Stephen
Covey
O Effectiveness Improvements
O Conclusion
O Three questions

Introduction
• Leadership refers to the art of
motivating group of people for
acting towards achieving the
organizational goals.
• Different leadership styles such
as democratic leadership,
autocratic leadership,
transactional leadership,
laissez-Faire will be discussed
• The discussion will be made of
the leadership style that is
followed in Wesfarmers
• Attributes of good leader and
how good leadership can be
learnt will also be discussed

Democratic Leadership
style
• Wesfarmers Limited
follow the
democratic
leadership style.
1 • This is most
effective leadership
style.2 • Lower level
employees are
allowed for
exercising the
authority
3

Autocratic leadership
style
• The complete control is
under the hands of one
single individual
• It is inverse of the
democratic leadership
style
• No input is taken from any
team member
• All the power, authority
and control is retained by
the leader

Laissez-Faire Leadership
• It is opposite to the autocratic
leadership
• This focus mostly on delegating the
tasks to the members of the team and
no or little supervision is provided to
them
• The time is not spend by the leaders in
managing the employees.

Transformational
leadership
Leaders encourage, motivate
and inspire the employees for
innovating and creating the
change
This will help in growing and
shaping the Wes farmer's
future success
Trained employees are trusted
for taking the authority over
the decisions in their assigned
jobs

Transactional Leadership
style
• Both rewards and
punishments are
used by the
transactional leader
for promoting the
compliance by the
team members.
• Followers are kept
motivated for the
period of short-term

Coach style
leadership
• The lead is taken by the coaching leader for getting
the best results
• The leader focus on nurturing and identifying the
individual strengths of each team member of his
team
• Focus is also made on the forming the strategies that
will enable the better work of team together.

Types of power used by
leaders
Expert power- When in-depth information is possessed by an individual in
the area for which they are responsible.
Coercive power- it is least effective . It includes forcing employees for
doing something against their will
Reward Power- Ability of rewarding the team members or employees
according to their work
Information power- It is the power of having the information which is not
having by others.
Referent Power- It is the ability of attracting others and building loyalty
within the team members.
Legitimate Power- This is the formalized way to ensure that decision is
made by someone and that person will be responsible for it.

How to become good
leader
Encourage creativity
Build Trust
Promote two way feedback open environment
Be passionate
Effectively listen and communicate
Having positive attitude
Encouraging team members for making the
contribution

Good leadership
attributes
O Vision is created by the good leader. Vision is
articulated and passionately followed
Vision
Courag
e
He should have courage of taking the risks
Integrit
y
He should posses the ability of integrity of
telling the truth in every situation.
Strate
gic
Planni
ng
Leaders should posses developing the great
strategic planning and should anticipate
with accuracy