Contemporary leadership style: How relevant are they in today’s changing world

 

The leader is an important component of the successful business. The leader has an important role in an organization such as establish a vision, provide knowledge and necessary information, Leader create a method to lead their follower to the target goal. Moreover, Leader responsibility to deal with their follower problems and relationship. Therefore, the leader is not born but made leadership cannot transfer by genetic but can acquire through practice and study. “Many people assume that good leadership means good management” (Jeffrey Glence 2013) however, leadership and management are different, Management focuses on how to achieve but leadership create a vision and inspire their follower to reach the goal. There are many styles of leadership depend on leader behavior. However, there is no best style of leadership, the leader can adapt their style to suit their organizational culture.

 

Contemporary Leadership

 

https://keydifferences.com/difference-between-transactional-and-transformational-leadership.html

 

Leadership are characteristic and behavior of leader toward their follower. Leader and follower have to interact with each other to work in a team. Moreover, there are various types of leadership style occurring in an organization. However, there is no best type of leadership, every leadership style has advantages and disadvantages. The two highlight of leadership styles are transactional and transformational leadership.

 

• Transformational leadership

 

Transformational leadership is a leadership style that working with their follower in a team to guide and motivate their follower to work. This style of leadership will contribute vision and make commitment among their team to reach the goal. In addition, transformational leadership will inspire people to where they want to lead people.

 

• Transactional leadership

Transactional leadership is a leadership style that focuses on the task and follower performance. This type of leadership motivates their follower through punishment and reward. Moreover, transactional leadership can be considered as traditional leadership, the leader will measure on the result, reward, and penalty. Importantly, This style of leader will be effective when the leader has a clear command to their follower.

 

 

Company Background

 

Sainsbury plc is a UK based company in the UK, which is one of the largest supermarket company. The company was founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury. Nowadays, Sainsbury company has to operate 1411 grocery stores around the UK which is considering as the UK second largest chain supermarket in the UK. Moreover, Sainsbury and Asda are merged their business together, the combination of two companies created a leading grocery store brand in the UK. Moreover, the merge of two large companies maintains these two brand also promote Sainsbury and Asda to be the largest grocery store in the UK which have around 2800 stores around the UK.

 

Adair’s Model

 

 

https://www.businessballs.com/leadership-styles/

 

Adair’s model is a leadership theory which explains leadership behavior. The theory shows leader will expect to contribute effective result to the organization. According to Adair’s model, leader main jobs is to figure out what their follower need or necessary with their task and provide it to them. Mainly, leadership role in Adair’s model makes their team achieve the task, develop their team and building and maintaining teamwork within their team. Leaders are a coach and mentor

 

Sainsbury leadership

Sainsbury is a big grocery store company which have a lot of employees working with the organization. First of all, the company has around 195,000 employees working in the organization. According to a large number of employees, The company has a variety of employees, they different gender, age, and nationality. Moreover, Management team need to apply a management strategy to organize their team. The company provide training and developing the skill to their employees to improve their employees potential. Sainsbury also provides a mentor system to assist employees that need a specific coach to train and develop in the specific area. According to Adair’s Model, Sainsbury company have to hire female employees and provide them with a professional mentor to assist and develop their staff. Overall, Sainsbury’s employees are Satisfy with the company. According to employees survey, 79% of Sainsbury’s employees are satisfied with company (Sainsbury,2018) management style especially mentor system with providing a good opportunity to develop themselves, most of the employees said that they satisfy with a work environment in the company.

 

 

References

 

(IGD, 2018)  Sainsbury and ASDA set out merger case

From https://supplychainanalysis.igd.com/retailers/sainsburys/news-article/t/sainsburys-and-asda-set-out-merger-case/i/18866

[accessed on 30 April 2018]

 

(Cherry K, 2018) What is transactional leadership

From https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-transactional-leadership-2795317

[accessed on 27 May 2017]

 

(Mind Tools Content Team, 2018) Transformation leadership

from https://www.statista.com/statistics/386475/sainsburys-store-numbers-by-convenience-and-supermarket-united-kingdom-uk/

 

(Statista, 2018) Number of Sainsbury store in the UK

from https://www.statista.com/statistics/386475/sainsburys-store-numbers-by-convenience-and-supermarket-united-kingdom-uk/

 

(Sainsbury, 2018)  Colleague engagement

From https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/making-a-difference/our-colleagues/colleague-engagement

 

(Bl.uk, 2018)  John Adair

From https://www.bl.uk/people/john-adair