Different Leadership Style Analysis

Task 2- Prepare a briefing paper that compares the effectiveness of different leadership styles. You should explain how organizational theory underpins the practice of management and evaluate the different approaches to management used by at least two other organizations and the implications of these findings for the management of Solid State Technologies Ltd.

“Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal” - Phill Cronin, different leadership styles have different effectiveness and it depends on how we use it, the leadership styles can spilt into four types, they are talks, sells, consults and joins, it refer to the behavior of the leaders and the behavior comes from leader’s personality. (Blogspot.sg,

In addition, Tesco also refer to the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the company aim the basic/physical needs, for example, the staffs are influenced by what foods goes onto their restaurant menus, so they will become motivated to make choices so that they will increase their use of the restaurants.

The Kellogg Company is the world’s leading producer of breakfast cereals. The founders of the company are W.K. Kellogg, and his brother, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, nowadays, Its products are manufactured in 18 countries and sold in more than 180 countries. Over 100 years, Kellogg’s has been a leader in health and nutrition. It has done this by providing consumers with a wide variety of food products. (Simplebooklet.com,

The Tesco follow the FW Taylor theory, but they go beyond that theory which makes the company operate better, base on that, we can find the solution for our company problem, it is difficult to change our current autocratic management style, so we do some improvement base on it, we need to focus on motivating the staff and training our employees leadership skills, we need to know and satisfy what exactly our staff needs to increase their loyalty to our company so that we can avoid losing staff, but how we motivate our staff we can refer to the findings on the Kellogg, the Maslow’s hierarchy of need, it is not difficult for us to satisfy staff physiological needs and safety needs, but now we should pay more attention on the belonging needs, it is also another problem we face now, our staff feel too nervous and they prefer relax environment, we should more concern about our staff feelings which means we should try to communicate with them and let them feel that the company willing to hear their voices and do the changes for