University of Suffolk BABS: Leadership Styles and Zuckerberg Report

This report, submitted as part of a Personal and Professional Development assignment at the University of Suffolk, explores various leadership styles and their practical application. It begins with an introduction to leadership, defining its core qualities and skills. The report then delves into different academic leadership styles, including democratic, autocratic, and transformational approaches, providing definitions and examples of each. A significant portion of the report is dedicated to analyzing Mark Zuckerberg's leadership style, specifically focusing on his use of transformational leadership, and how it contributed to the success of Facebook. The report highlights the importance of choosing the right leadership style for organizational success and concludes by summarizing the key findings and referencing the sources used. This report provides valuable insights into leadership theories and their practical implications, using Zuckerberg as a case study to illustrate the concepts.

Personal and Professional Development

Table of contents
 Introduction
 Academic Leadership styles
 Theory of leadership chosen by Mark Zuckerberg
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Effective leadership is the set of qualities and skills to direct the actions of
people for gaining desirable goals and objectives in proper manner. Different
leaders may have different kinds of make ups, strengths and challenges but
there are certain kind of traits that consider as core of leadership qualities.
Respective PPT is based on the various kinds of models of leadership that
opted by leaders to guide or direct people for gaining desirable outcomes. It
also includes the leadership style of Mark Zuckerberg that contribute in their
organizational success.

Academic Leadership styles
For an organisation, it is very much important to select one of the most suitable
kind of leadership style in order to direct the people in gaining desirable
goals and objectives. There are no. of leadership theories and practices
prevails in the market that proved beneficial in attaining potential
outcomes that are as follows:
 Democratic leadership
 Autocratic leadership
 Transformational leadership

Cont...
Democratic leadership style which exactly sounds, the leader makes the
decisions on basis of the input received from each and every individual in
the organisation. In that regards leader make final call by directing the
project in order to gain optimum outputs. It is one of most effective kind
of leadership style because it allows the lower level of employees to
exercise the authority positively to exercise authority.

Cont...
Autocratic leadership is the inverse of democratic leadership in which
decisions should be taken from anyone who reports to them. In it
employees are the neither considered nor consulted priorly to direction.
Respective kind of leadership style is used by the most organisations that
today not sustain by such a hegemonic culture without losing their
employees. So it is very much important to opt one of most open
leadership style for the team and individuals in order to remain
competitive in the marketplace.

Cont...
Transformational leadership style is always focus on the transforming and
continuous improving the organisational conventions. In it employees
have the basic kind of tasks and goals that they have to complete on every
week or monthly basis. In respective kind of leadership style leader
constantly pushing the employees to come out from their comfort zone. By
using respective kind of leadership style while starting a job leader might
give a list of the goals that an employee have to reach as well as deadlines
to accomplish the task positively.

Theory of leadership chosen by Mark
Zuckerberg
For an organisation choosing most appropriate kind of leader and its
leadership style in order to gain desirable outcomes. In context of Mark
Zuckerberg they use the transformation leadership style that helps him to
learned from their mistakes, in taking risk and potentially grown as and
visionary leader. With their own determination, self awareness and with
the help of mentor's they placed oneself as top CEOs list to build the
popular social network in the whole world.

Cont...
The major success factors consisted by using the respective kind of
leadership style in terms of
Employee relations:
With the help of transformation leadership style, organisation can be able to
maintain the positive work relationship with them so that they can
potential outputs from them. They bring another important feature recently
called as Graph search that directly decline the popularity of the other
applications such as BranchOut.

Conclusion
From the above report it has been summarized that leaders are very much
important for organization to contribute one of their best efforts in
organization development and enhancement. To choose most appropriate
kind of leadership style it is potential to evaluate each and every factor
associated with the specified leadership style in order to optimize best results.
By using the most appropriate kind of leadership style by Mark Zuckerberg
they gain success and become the multinational company in the whole world.

References
 Mark Zuckerberg and facebook leadership, 2018. [Online]. Available
through. <https://elijahclark.com/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-
leadership/>.
 The 8 Most Common Leadership Styles & How to Find Your Own, 2019.
[Online]. Available through.
<https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/leadership-styles>.
 Hill, K. and et.al., 2016. Using the repertory grid technique to examine
trainee clinical psychologists' construal of their personal and
professional development. Clinical psychology & psychotherapy. 23(5).
pp.425-437.

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