MAN3121 Motivation to the Employees

Leadership style is considered to be the approach or manner which helps them to provide direction, providing motivation to the employees and implementing the plans in an effective manner. The implicit and explicit actions that are thereby performed by the performed by the leaders and their pattern of operations is considered to be an important part of the leadership style. The different styles of leadership that have been developed and proposed by the researchers mainly include, autocratic style, laissez faire style, participative style, situational leadership, charismatic leadership and transformational leadership (Banks, McCauley, Gardner & Guler, 2016).

The report will be thereby based on the analysis of a particular style of leadership and the ways by which the leadership style has been depicted by a particular leader. The leadership style which has been chosen for the analysis is transformational style and the leader who depicts that the style of leadership is the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos.

Identification and explanation based on the leadership style chosen

Transformational leadership is considered to an approach which is able to cause effective levels of changes in the social systems and among the individuals as well. The positive and valuable levels of changes can thereby be made in the employees or followers who operate under the leaders. Transformational leadership style can be considered highly effective and inspiring in nature for operations in the modern organizations. The vision that is developed by the transformational leaders is an important part of the operations of different organizations and their employees (Cashman, 2017).

Discussion based on the ways by which the leadership theories can help in managing challenges of contemporary leaders

The leadership based in organizations can sometimes become highly challenging in nature. The managers or leaders thereby need to understand the employees in an effective manner in order to the improve their work processes. The leaders thereby need to become the role models of their subordinates. The transformational leadership style is helpful in improving the employees and the organizations as a whole. The leaders who follow transformational style are able to inspire the employees or the subordinates in an effective way. The leaders are further able to develop effective levels of communication between the members of the team (Chang, 2016).

The open levels of communication have been helpful for the managers to develop effective relationships with the employees. Different challenges that are a part of the organizational operations can be resolved in an effective way with the help of transformation leadership based activities. The transformational leaders are able to extract the best performance of the team with the help of effective relationships with them. The vision of the company which is shared with the employees is an important factor that can play a major role in the ways by which the operations of the company are developed and managed effectively (Covin & Slevin, 2017).

The plans that are thereby developed by the leaders are able to help them in overcoming major challenges that are faced by them. The appreciation that can be provided to the top performers by the transformational leaders are helpful in motivating them to improve their performance in an effective way. The multiple levels of demands that are placed on the leaders by different organizations are able to play a major role in the operations. The transformational leaders are thereby able to accomplish the challenge based levels with the help of proper assistance provided by the employees or the members of their team (Dinh et al., 2014).

The feelings related to confidence, commitment and admiration which are instilled by the leaders within the employees are able to affect the work process and their productivity as well. Transformational leaders are further able to develop effective bonds with the employees and further solve the issues within the different organizational processes. The reward based policies which are provided by the transformational leaders are an important part of the ways by which different challenges which are posed towards the leaders can be faced by them. The development of sustainable advantage is an effective part of the ways by which transformational leaders are able to face different challenges within the organizations in modern business environment.

Example of a leader who demonstrates transformational style

The major example of a leader who has followed the transformational leadership is Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon. The leadership based qualities which have been depicted by the CEO are based on the importance that is provided to the customers. The satisfaction based levels of the customers is considered to be an important factor of the unique leadership based style that is followed by Bezos. This leadership style has thereby been able to set him apart from the others in the technology based industry (Forbes.com, 2018).

The huge employee base of Amazon has thereby been controlled in an effective manner by Bezos. Bezos has thereby been able to ensure the continuous growth of Amazon with the help of different qualities that are a part of the leadership style. The CEO has also depicted a constant level of obsession towards the levels of customer satisfaction. This has played a major role in the ways by which the company has maintained its topmost position in the industry (Forbes.com, 2018).

Discussion based on the ways by which behaviour of leaders demonstrates key aspects of the theory                                                                                                                                                                                 

Jeff Bezos has been provided with the position of the best living transformational leader in market. The ways by which Bezos has been able to depict different aspects of the transformational leadership style has been explained in an effective manner by different researches and reports. The growth of Amazon has proved a major result of the leadership based style that is followed by Bezos in an effective manner.

Amazon and Jeff Bezos have been able to travel together on the journey of the growth and profitability based levels (Fairhurst & Connaughton, 2014). The ways by which Amazon has been able to become a pioneer in the e-commerce based industry are thereby based on the different aspects of the transformational leadership that have been followed by Bezos. The three major metrics that are able to affect the transformational leadership style are as follows,

• Core repositioning – The success based on the repositioning of the core business based operations of Amazon and further making significant investments in the new business operations was a successful decision taken by Jeff Bezos (Tourish, 2014).
• The new levels of growth which has been shown by Amazon are based on the development of new services and products and effective business based models as well.
• The financial performance based levels that is shown by the company is also based on the ways by which the leader has been able to share his vision with the employees in an effective manner (Leroy, Anseel, Gardner & Sels, 2015).

The different metrics have been able to provide Bezos with different attributes related to an effective leader. The levels of experience which was thereby gained by him were also an important part of the proper operations. The leader was further able to gain huge amounts of knowledge which was able to play a major role in the ways by which he is able to understand different changes which are taking place within the organizational operations (McCleskey, 2014). Bezos was thereby able to inspire the others in his organization with the help of the vision which had been developed by him. The long term success based ideas of the leader has also been able to play a major role in the proper operations of the leader in the company and the industry as a whole.

Outcomes of the leadership style

The leadership based style of the CEO of Amazon has been able to affect the operations and growth of the company. The leader has been able to ensure proper growth of the company and productivity of the employees as well. The customers have been provided with utmost levels of importance and employees have conducted their work process with the help of proper leadership. Bezos has always expected more from the employees and this has played a major role in the effective levels of operations as well (Mendenhall et al., 2017).

The major growth based levels which have been depicted by the company were based on the ways by which the Amazon had increased the growth from selling books to all the other types of items as well. The ways by which the company has been able to satisfy the customers are important milestones which have been reached with the help of the unique leadership style of Bezos. The transformational leader has been able to share his vision in an effective manner with the employees and has also increased the growth of the company in an effective way (Nyberg & Sveningsson, 2014).

Conclusion

The report can be concluded by stating that leadership has been able to play a major role in proper operations of the organizations. The leadership style which has been analysed in the report is transformational style. The analysis has been able to depict that the transformational leaders are able to coordinate with the employees in an effective manner. The example of Jeff Bezos has depicted that the transformational leaders are important parts of the effective growth rates which are thereby depicted by Amazon in the online retail based industry. The operations of the company has thereby been facilitated with the help of effective leadership based qualities that have been shown by Bezos.

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