Leadership Analysis: Tesco Lotus, Models, and Ethical Practices

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of leadership within Tesco Lotus, a hypermarket chain in Thailand. The report begins with a reflection on the author's personal leadership experiences, followed by an exploration of relevant leadership models and theories, including the Great Man Theory, Trait Theory, and Behavioral Theory. It then delves into the leadership approaches adopted in daily work, such as situational and behavioral approaches, and critically appraises the author's autocratic leadership style. The report also outlines professional development strategies for becoming a successful leader, including goal setting, public speaking, and problem-solving skills. Part two critically evaluates the degree of leadership behaviors within Tesco Lotus, focusing on areas like higher education student services, non-profit management, organizational management, and professional coaching. The report concludes with recommendations to improve ethical leadership behaviors within the organization.

LEADERSHIP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
PART ONE......................................................................................................................................1
Reflecting on own experiences as a leader. ...............................................................................1
Relevant leadership models or theory adopted in daily work.....................................................2
Leadership approaches adopted in daily work............................................................................3
Critical appraisals of own style of leadership.............................................................................3
Professional development for establishing for becoming a successful leader............................4
PART TWO.....................................................................................................................................5
Critically evaluate degree of the leadership behaviours within your own organisation and
reflect a genuine commitment of ethical leadership...................................................................5
Recommendations to improve ethical leadership behaviours in the chosen organisation..........7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is an essential process of business organisation that aims at influencing others
in order to accomplish the targeted goals and objectives. Leadership focuses on directing people
in a way that it leads to make the organisation in more coherent and cohesive way. Tesco Lotus
is the hypermarket chain business in Thailand that is operated by Ek-Chai Distribution System
Co. LTD. And its parent company is Tesco. The present report explains different leadership
models and approaches of leadership that are adopted in organisation. Explanation of leadership
style and also establishment of professional development is done in the report. The report further
critically evaluates the ethical leadership and provides recommendations for improvements.
MAIN BODY
PART ONE
Reflecting on own experiences as a leader.
Leadership is referred as the ability for providing direction towards preferred future
aspiration and also interlinks the followers to achieve goals and objectives of the organisation.
Effectively managing the business activities and guiding people requires passion, skills and
knowledge of leadership that can bring effective outcomes and results (Grandy and Sliwa, 2017).
I aim at understanding the planning, strategies and other activities of business so that it leads me
to achieve targeted goals and objectives in an effective way.
The strong strength of leadership is that I have the ability to think strategically that makes
me different from others. I aim at effectively managing the task and activities provided to me
within the Tesco Lotus business organisation. I believe that there are specific skill sets,
personality traits and motivations required for being an effective and successful leader. The focus
of successful leaders is to bring positive impact and influenced in the working of company. My
own experience of leadership in the Tesco Lotus has provided me with formal opportunities for
developing the leadership skills and knowledge. Tesco Lotus is retailing business that requires
large number of employees to maintain the business activities. Effective leadership style and
skills are required for managing and guiding employees and also it provides with opportunities to
learn and gain more knowledge.
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Relevant leadership models or theory adopted in daily work
Leadership models and theories focus on identifying the characteristics of leaders and
also identifies their behaviour for improving the abilities according to different situations
happening in the business environment. The different theories of leadership include Great Man
Theory, Trait Theory, Behavioural Theory, Transformational Theory, Transactional Theory or
Contingency Theory (Meuser, Gardner and Lord, 2016). As per the Great Man Theory, leaders
are born rather than made. This theory explains that great leaders arises when the situation arises
or great need arises. The leadership skills and traits are intrinsic and arises when the situation
demands. leaders have the right skills and traits for leading from birth i.e. intelligence,
communication skill, social skill or charisms and confidence.
Trait theory explains that specific skills, qualities, creativity, responsibility and
knowledge can lead to make a successful and effective leader. The Trait theory is used for
predicting effective leadership and aims at identifying characteristics of effective and successful
leadership. The identified leadership characteristics are then compared with potential leaders in
order to determine their likelihood for leading effectively. This theory helps me to identifying
different perspective of leadership and bring effective results and outcomes in the daily routine
work. The perspective of different leaders such as decisiveness, knowledge, skills and judgement
in managing different situation of the organisation helps me to effectively managing the
activities.
Behavioural Theory focuses on figuring out what effective and potential leaders manage
different activities, delegate task, way of communication, leadership style for motivating
employees, etc. rather than finding out who effective leaders are (Dugan, 2017). The behaviours
of successful leaders guides and directs me to adopt best styles and practices in order to bring
better outcomes. The autocratic behaviour of leaders can bring the best results as they are goal-
oriented and also focus on completing the task provided to them. But the employees may feel
unhappy and express hostility with the autocratic leaders as they are strict. The democratic
leaders are often considered as people-oriented leaders who aim at motivating and satisfying
employees. This creates friendly working environment for employees which may not bring
seriousness in work. The different behaviours are adopted by me at daily work according to the
situation demands. Different models and theories helps me in properly handling the business
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activities and operations of business. These theories describes traits and skills of effective leaders
which can be adopted at daily work by me according to the different situations.
Leadership approaches adopted in daily work
The successful leader aims at serving as a role model and as a mentor for employees at
the same time. The approaches of leadership are situational, behavioural, relational and
Transformational (Ford and Harding, 2018). The different leadership approaches guides leaders
to bring effectiveness in business operations and activities and also to motivate employees so that
they come up with innovation and creation and leads to accomplishment of targeted goals and
objectives. Behavioural approach of leadership focus on studying the behaviours of leaders and
their characteristics as well. The behaviours and actions of effective leaders are focused rather
their traits or qualities. The behavioural approach states that there is an interpersonal relationship
between leaders and employees in which behaviours of leader constitute the most critical aspect.
The good behaviour of employees towards its employees will lead to motivate and encourage
them whereas absence of this may lead to bring negative impacts.
Situational approach of leadership was proposed by Paul Hersey and Kennet Blanchard
and it states that different situations requires different leadership. Leadership skills and attributes
needs to be adopted according to the situations. Effective and successful leaders focuses on
choosing the best suitable leadership style and practices as per the needs of situations. The
business environment gets influenced by many factors and brings different situation which
requires flexible leadership style in order to get best results and outcomes. The situational
approach guides me to adopt to different styles and bring out the best outcomes in daily work
and tasks. The effectiveness of this approach is that it brings flexibility in operations and also
provides motivation to employees. It adopts to different leadership styles such as coaching,
delegating, directive and supportive according to the development level of employees and
situations (Antonakis and Day, 2017). Therefore, I focus on adopting to situational approach in
my daily work so that I can effectively manage the activities according to development level of
employees and also by considering the situation.
Critical appraisals of own style of leadership.
There are different styles of leaders such as autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire,
transformational, transactional or situational. The effective and successful leaders needs to focus
on selecting and adopting the best styles so that it can lead to bring innovation in business
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activities by motivating employees. My style of leadership is autocratic as it helps me to
effectively guide the employees and accomplishment of task. Autocratic style of leadership relies
on use of authority provided by the organisation. Autocratic style focuses on completing the task
given and it is referred as task-oriented. This may also lead to bring dissatisfaction to employees,
they may also feel unhappiness (Storsletten and Jakobsen, 2015). Autocratic leaders does not
focus on motivating and encouraging employees rather than they focus on completing the task.
The leaders are focused on positional power and authority rather than personal influences. The
use of autocratic leadership style provides me with the benefit of providing effective coaching
and guidance to employees so that they can effectively accomplish the task. This leadership style
does not aim at involving employees in decision making process but rather than makes decision
himself. But the success only depends upon the efficiency of leaders and involvement of
employees is not present and they are forced to follow directions provided (19 Autocratic
Leadership Style Advantages and Disadvantages, 2019). The involvement of employees is not
present in decision-making process which leads to provide quick process. Confidential matter
can be kept by autocratic leaders and also positive outcomes can be achieved.
Professional development for establishing for becoming a successful leader.
For becoming a successful and effective leader, I need to establish some training goals
and professional development (Yang and Lim, 2016). The traits of efficient leaders involves role
model, setting of effective vision, motivating employees, accountability and accomplishing goals
in effective way. I need to focus on bringing effective traits in my personality so that I can
become a successful and effective leader that can bring the best outcomes and results. Planning
and goal setting will help me to set effective targets and also need to set time-frame. This will
provide me the benefit of setting clear and specific targets and determining timeline will guide
me to complete the task effectively within time-frame. Public speaking trait needs to be
developed as it helps in effectively guiding and directing the employees and subordinates. A
good presentation and speech will lead to bring others on board and will also lead to bring
effective achievement of goals and objectives.
Professional development and training goals are also required for developing my problem
solving skill in order to get better results and outcomes. Effective and successful leaders know
how to resolve conflicts and bringing effective solutions for the same (Grandy and Sliwa, 2017).
Therefore, this skill will help me to bring the best solutions to problems of business and will also
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help in resolving conflicts. Setting various training goals and professional development helps in
effectively achieving the targeted goals. This will also make me a successful and efficient leader
that can bring positive influences in the organisation.
PART TWO
Critically evaluate degree of the leadership behaviours within your own organisation and reflect
a genuine commitment of ethical leadership
In Tesco Lotus degree of organisational management and leadership provide skills and
knowledge that required to motivate others. Hence, implementation of organisational change
improve workplace culture that is generally required for effective manager. In order to leading in
success team, it can be stated that best organisational leadership degree in today's time
successfully develop to diagnose the problem and issue (Tannenbaum and Schmidt, 2017).
Following are different kinds of degree of leadership behaviours within the own organisation
considered successfully: Higher education student services: In this aspect, concentration is needed to focus on
skills of leaders that need to be effective. Therefore, it helps to manage work of Tesco
Lotus with non-education needs such as financial aid, residences and admission. In order
to successfully develop effective team, strategies in planning, design and delivery
considered successfully (Antonakis and Day, 2017). Non-profit management: On the other hand, non-profit management considered among
20 online master's programs. In this consideration, organisation offers unique and
specialisation tailored that offers training to focus on people and their skills. Students are
also focuses to prepare necessary skills that needed to take initiatives. Organisational management: As critically evaluate, this kind of people centric
concentration also provide with management tools, leadership skills and understanding
human behaviour. As a result, it ensures that employees work together in effective and
efficient manner (Bolman and Deal, 2017). In Tesco Lotus, this kind of leadership helps
to manage organisation size, culture or function. Professional and executing coaching: Gain and vital skills needed that enable to others to
influence leaders. This concentration utilises that hands on approach assists to develop
coaching skills and practices in successful manner.
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 Training and development: As critical evaluate, training and development recognised to
focuses on most effective practices and methods as well. With this regard, diverse
background varying with learning styles. This concentration focuses on most effective
practices in Tesco Lotus.
Ethical leadership is most important aspect that leads to financial and strategic success in
business. Therefore, it is important to do right thing for the greater good which increases ability
that ethically influence others to determine effective leadership. It is more important aspect that
helps to develop appropriate business decisions of their executives. I learned that ethical
leadership is most important that provide unequivocal within the firm. In this way, it can be seen
that ethical leader can exert and influence in the business. I had understood that organisational
commitment is one of the most fundamental concept in relation to workforce motivation and
productivity. Commitment of loyalty and acceptance successfully develop that assists to reduce
barrier in the process. Therefore, it defined as the strong belief for me to accept goals and values
in the enterprise. Willingness to exert energy and efforts also definite desire to maintain
membership at workplace. I had work that organisation also provide more priority to work with
high level of commitment. There are several challenges exists that influence to achieve goals and
overcome higher employee commitment.
Furthermore, ethical leadership assists to maintain quality and outcomes of education to
get more attention within the program. In Tesco Lotus, ethical leadership means influence to
improve themselves as followers. As a result, trust can be successfully develop with several
principles that influenced my performances by practices such as effective leadership,
consistency, reliability, openness, etc. Hence, it encourages me to more committed in careers.
Ethical leadership demonstrate normative appropriate conduct with personal action and
interpersonal relationship. It influences two way communication, reinforcement and decision
making in the chosen business. Ethical leadership composed in two aspects for me such as
individual moral and manager perspective. As individual moral refers as personality
characteristics of a leader that impact on behaviour and decision making process as well. Ethical
leaders although become role model so that I can exhibit personality and appropriate behaviour.
In addition to this, I can also use reward and punishment ethically that conducted among several
followers.
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Recommendations to improve ethical leadership behaviours in the chosen organisation
Ethical leadership is one of the important consideration that assists to grow organisation
in large aspect and increases their reach into daily lives. In the businesses, ethics helps to
understand responsibility of each leader that would be beneficial to make ethical decisions.
Ethics concerns an individual's moral judgements so that it assists to make decisions between
groups in systematic manner (Priest and Gass, 2017). Hence, ethical behaviour and corporate
social responsibility can bring significant benefits in the enterprise. In Tesco Lotus, strong
ethical culture must be develop that assists to focus on employees' attitude, behaviour and pattern
in decision making. In today's time, every business facing challenges to improve their reputation
so that ethics are simple of morality to do absolute right and wrong. Ethics are those standards
which conducted for judgements towards fair and appropriate behaviour as well. Ethics are also
going for professional or trade association which helps to promote standards of ethical that
conducted to provide training on the particular subject. Moreover, the company should integrate
plan to face ethical challenges that are willingly discussed providing useful information. Leaders
are listening to their employees to develop very honest work in the business.
As a result, following are certain recommendations can be successfully provided in
respect to improve ethical leadership behaviours: Empowerment of employees: Empowerment of employee if one of the important
consideration to improve ethical leadership in Tesco Lotus. This is because,
empowerment produce better results from several employees which make creative
solution for business problem to implement effectively at workplace (Grint, Jones and
Storey, 2016). When employees have certain ethical code and more control, they are able
to take right decisions. It assists to keep autonomy over their work. Communication of policies and procedures: Furthermore, communication policies and
procedures should be implemented at workplace of Tesco Lotus. This is because, it
assists to collect information that flow very smoothly and frequently among managers
and employees (Priest and Gass, 2017). Create series of training also teach employees to
take right decisions for common situations that faced in the company. In order to promote
effective decisions, it can be stated that manager must communicate ethical behaviour
more clear. It is the best way to investigate promptly.
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 Discipline and consequences: In order to increase ethical behaviour, it can be stated that
discipline and consequence must be successfully applied that are complied with ethics
policy and some kind of discipline (Antonakis and Day, 2017). With respect to enforce
consequence, it can be stated that violations of the ethics policy should be considered
successfully in high or low status. Therefore, in Tesco Lotus if delegate the job to
manager or HR director, it is essential to maintain careful documentation of employee
violations to maintain careful ethical behaviours.
 Changing bad pattern: Employee behaviour and enforce with ethics policy can be seen
in term of patterns of unethical behaviours. This is also indicates that there are certain
rules and procedures need to be changed in the business. It also affects ways of doing
things that helps to save money and increase more profitability as well (Tannenbaum and
Schmidt, 2017). Short term losses resulting improvement for increasing reputation in the
chosen business.
Business ethics are being responsible so that it assists to create positive ripple on the
business. Especially when programmed into organisation's corporate culture develop successfully
it is important to set guidelines and procedures. Moreover, leaders who understand it. this is
more likely to attract top staff members and clients. Hence, environment also encourage
increasing good corporate citizenship. Motivate employees also assists to perform better and
more innovatively. Efforts are also assists to promote behaviour and try to make transparent
work culture. Hence, it is essential to make sure that company information also demonstrate
transparency in decision making process (Bolman and Deal, 2017). In Tesco Lotus, it is essential
to integrates ethics in corporate culture so that ethical challenges must expect to face in coming
years. It increases chance to response towards challenges that are faced in business. Long term
growth also create details towards particular decisions with making more judgements with
experiences, perceptions and expectations.
CONCLUSION
From the present report, it can be concluded that leadership considered important role in
success of the organisation to ascertained desired level of results in systematic manner. With this
regard, reflection regarding own experience successfully develop that ascertained effectiveness
in Tesco Lotus. In this regard, there are different kinds of leadership theories such as
behavioural, great man and trait theory of leadership. From these all, in the chosen business
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behavioural theory is suitable to maintain effectiveness at workplace. Furthermore, it
summarised about professional development and training goals that would be considered to make
effectiveness to attain more desired level of results. In this regard, successful leader grow with
considering several training goals. At last, it articulated about commitment of ethical leadership
and recommendations for improvement in it that can be applied in chosen business.
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