Analysis of Leadership Styles, Traits, and Organizational Culture

This report provides an overview of leadership styles, leadership traits, and organizational culture. It begins by defining leadership and exploring various styles, including transactional leadership. The report then delves into the characteristics of effective leaders, such as empathy, confidence, and the ability to inspire employees. Furthermore, it examines organizational culture, defining it as a set of shared values and beliefs that shape a company's environment and employee behavior. The report emphasizes the importance of organizational culture in fostering collaboration, promoting healthy competition, and building employee loyalty. The content is supported by references to relevant sources, providing a well-rounded analysis of the subject matter.

Leadership style and Organization culture
Leadership
Leadership is referred to the art of inspiring and encouraging a group of individuals to
perform and achieve particular objectives. A defined of leadership is given by MS Mark
which provides that it is an approach that is used by leaders for inspiring people, developing
strategies and providing direction to a group or organisations. The image of a leader is set by
his/her leadership style. There are many common leadership styles such as transactions
leadership, transformations, charismatic, participatory, autocratic and strategic leadership
style ("What Is the Difference Between Leadership Style ...", n.d.). One of
the common leadership styles is transactional leadership approach in
which leaders use rewards and punishments for inspiring and leading their
employee. This style focuses on performing, organising and supervising
employees and its examples include Zhang Ruimin of Heir Group.
Leadership traits
Leadership traits are defined as characterises of a person that assist
in influencing and motivating a group in order to achieve specific targets.
The attributes of a leader defines their personality. MS Mark has provided
that empathy is one of the most crucial characteristics of a leader.
Successful leaders care about their employee, and they guide them
through challenges. They provide the effective solution which results in
increasing their productivity and the corporation. He further provided that
leaders are required to listen to their followers and provide practical
solutions to them rather than blaming them for their actions. In our
research, it was found that leaders are required to pose a high level of
confidence, honesty, optimism, and focus. It is necessary that they should
be accountable, decisive, build trust with employees and be in the
position of inspiring them ("The Characteristic of Leadership - 7 Important
Traits", n.d.).

Organization culture
The organisation culture is referred to a set of values, assumptions,
and beliefs which are shared by an enterprise. MS Mark told us that an
organizational culture contributes to the uniqueness of a company’s social
and psychological environment which can be affected by factors such as
behaviour patterns, organizational performance and dressing code. MS
Mark further told us that a corporation is defined by its culture which
creates guidelines and boundaries for actions of its employees. A unique
organisational culture promotes collaboration at the workplace through its
shared beliefs in which employees from different demographics can join
together for common objectives. Furthermore, it encourages healthy
competition at the workplace by encouraging employees to perform and
create a unique identity of a corporation (Watkins, 2014). Last advice he
gave that be making employee feel like a party of the company, an
organisational culture encourage their loyalty towards their corporation.

References
The Characteristic of Leadership - 7 Important Traits. (n.d.). Retrieved
April 07, 2018, from
http://www.leadership-toolbox.com/characteristic-of-leadership.htm
Watkins, M. D. (2014, August 07). What Is Organizational Culture? And
Why Should We Care? Retrieved April 07, 2018, from
https://hbr.org/2013/05/what-is-organizational-culture
What Is the Difference Between Leadership Style & Leadership Traits?
(n.d.). Retrieved April 07, 2018, from
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/difference-between-leadership-style-
leadership-traits-34649.html