Leadership Report: Zuckerberg's Leadership and Facebook's Performance

This report delves into the personal and professional development of Mark Zuckerberg, focusing on his leadership style and its impact on Facebook's performance. It begins with an introduction to personal and professional development, followed by an overview of various leadership theories, including trait, contingency, situational, transformational, behavioral, and transactional theories. The report then analyzes Zuckerberg's leadership style, identifying him as a transactional leader who employs autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire approaches. It highlights his focus on innovation, growth, and employee development, examining the positive influence of his leadership on Facebook's operations. The report concludes with recommendations for effective leadership, such as showing concern for employees and adapting leadership styles to different situations, and provides a list of references.

Personal and Professional
Development

Table of Content
• Introduction
• Leadership theories
• Leadership style and skills
• The impact of Zuckerberg's leadership on the performance on Facebook
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
The main goal of personal and professional development is to assist an individual in managing his
own growth and learning throughout his/her career. Mark E. Zukerburg is an american entrepreneur
who is famous for co-founding the biggest social networking websites, facebook. The company
develops technologies in order to provide people the power of connecting and networking with
each other across the globe, grow their businesses, find different communities and is headquartered
in california, united states.

Leadership Theories
A leader is important for the success of every team and leadership is the process of motivating and
encouraging a group or team of people to act towards achieving a specific goal or objective. To
make this simpler, various theories that support the concept of leadership are developed that
explain why individuals behave in a particular way.

Cont.…
Different theories of leadership are explained below -
Trait theory
Contingency theory
Situational theory

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Transformational leadership theories
Behavioural theory
Transactional theories
Laissez-faire style approach to leadership

Trait Theory
This theory is used in order to predict the effective leadership and are based on the
assumption that people are born leaders and possess certain qualities like creativity,
intelligence etc. that make them leaders in the future. The theory also focusses on
analysing the mental, social and physical characteristics in order to gain a better
perspective of the same.

Contingency Theory
This theory claims that there is no better way in which an organisation can be
organised in order to make decisions. According to this theory, the success
of the leader does not depend only on his abilities (Gibson, 2016). Rather there
are a lot of factors like the working environment of the firm, its culture,
employees etc. that influence his/her success as a leader.

Situational Theory
This theory is similar to the contingency theory and states that the concept of
leadership depends on the situation that the organisation faces (Van Waes and
et. al., 2016). Thus, leaders should always respond a particular situation after
assessing various factors like the nature and type of the task, members of
the team etc. According to the theory, the most relevant and effective
leadership styles change varying on the situation and thus in order to be
successful a leader should be able to adapt his approach and style
accordingly.

Transformational Leadership Theories
The theory states that this is the process by which individuals interact among themselves
and are thus able to create solid relationships that will help the company later with an
increased motivation among the employees as well as the subordinates, both intrinsic
and extrinsic

Behavioural Theory
The behavioural theories focus on the behaviours of leaders within an
organisation. The theory divided leaders into two categories like the leaders
who were concerned with tasks and others who were concerned about their
team members. The theory focuses on specific behaviours and actions
rather than their characteristics and traits

Transactional Theories
These theories are also known as exchange theories of leadership and can be
characterised by the transaction that is made between a leader and his
team members. The theory thus values a relationship that is mutually
beneficial and positive at the same time. For the theory to show a positive
result, the leader should reward and punish his/her team members
accordingly for the tasks they are assigned to complete