Leadership and Strategic Management

Introduction   Leadership style refers to a leader's characteristic behaviors when directing, motivating, guiding, and managing groups of people. Great leaders can inspire political movements and social change. They can also motivate others to perform, create, and innovate. As you start to consider some of the people who you think of as great leaders, you can immediately see that there are often vast differences in how each person leads. Fortunately, researchers have developed different theories and frameworks that allow us to better identify and understand these different leadership styles. Lewin's Leadership Styles In 1939, a group of researchers led by psychologist  Kurt Lewin  set out to identify different styles of leadership   (Lewin, et al., 1939) . While further research has identified more distinct types of leadership, this early study was very influential and established three major leadership styles that have provided a springboard for more d...

Leadership is recognised as the key tool of an organisation through which the leaders or managers can achieve the goas and objectives of their firm and increase the productivity and performance. (Chaudhry & Javed, 2012) Employees are the valuable asset of an organisation who carry out the duties required to achieve the desired objective of any firm; hence the leadership style which characterizes the interaction between leaders and their subordinates should be considered as more important in terms of the efficiency and productivity. (Belonio, 2012) Effective leaders should include their subordinates and employees, their peers, and perhaps even their superiors in the work process and will have to engage them in the process of thinking innovatively and creatively to find and solve problems. (Fiaz, et al., 2017) In this context the leadership style plays a vital role in the performance of every organisation and laissez-faire leadership style found as one of an importa...