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How Different Leadership Styles Impact on an Organisation

Uploaded by JAJA199 on Aug 13, 2015

1.0 Abstract 4
1.1 Research Background 5
1.2 Research Objectives and Questions of the study 6
1.3 Research Questions 7
1.4 Research Outline 7
1.5 Delimitations of the Study 8
1.6 Limitations and Rationale of the study 8
2.0 Literature Review 9
2.1 Introduction to the leadership concept 9
2.2 Leadership theories 9
2.3 Leadership definitions. 10
2.4 Types of Leadership Styles 11
2.5 Transformational Leadership 12
2.6 Transactional Leadership 14
3.0 Organisational Performance Overview 15
3.1 Financial performance 17
3.2 Employee performance 17
3.3 Organisational Commitment Overview 18
3.4 Emotional commitment 18
3.5 Normative commitment 19
3.6 Continuous commitment 19
4.0 Organisational Innovation Overview 20
4.1 Impact of Leadership Styles on SMEs Organisations 21
4.2 Organisational Commitment 23
4.3 Impact of Organisational Innovation 24
5.0 Hypothesis and the Conceptual model framework of the study 25
6.0 Research Methodology 27
6.1 Research Strategy: Case study research 28
6.2 Case study Philosophies and Approaches 29
6.3 Data collection method 29
6.4 Quantitative and Qualitative Data 29
6.5 Data Analysis 30
6.6 Validity and Reliability 30
7.0 Chronological Representation of the Study 31
7.1 Introduction to Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs). 32
7.2 Introduction to the Case Company 35
7.4 Case Study Findings 37
8.0 Discussion and Conclusion 45
8.1 Impact of Leadership Style on Organisational Commitment 46
8.2 Impact of Leadership Style on Organisational Innovation 47
9.0 Recommendations 48
10.0 Final Conclusions 49
11.0 References 50




1.0 Abstract
This paper seeks to demonstrate how different leadership styles impact on an organisational performance. The main objectives of this research is to analyse and have a clear understanding on the different leadership styles used in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) leaders. It also seeks to examine how the leadership styles impact on organisation performance and outcome using Xiamen Anne Corporation Limited, a Chinese business information paper manufacturer as the case study. In addition, the paper will also identify and analyse the most effectual leadership style for a Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) organisations. The leadership concept was discussed at the start of the paper. In terms of data collection, both qualitative and quantitative research methods were applied. This dissertation was founded on empirical researches where ten hypotheses were formulated. Furthermore, the interpretivism approach is selected as a methodology for the paper
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Keywords: Leadership, leadership styles, SMEs









1.1 Research Background
The highly competitive market economies have continuously forced majority of organisations around the globe to find various strategies on improving themselves in terms of operations and performance. This is not only vital for meeting their organisational objectives, but also for sustenance (Zheir et al, 2012). Previous researches and studies claim that leadership is the key factor for an organisation or business to survive, operate and perform in today’s competitive market (Ximane,2015);(Bass,1990);( Jung, 2002). Furthermore proper leadership is the strategic element in increasing and achieving organisational goals (Bass &Avolio, 1995) ;( Yousef, 1998). On the other hand, some researches and studies contend that organisational leadership is an embellished concept in that it is not necessary in attaining organisational performance since there are other internal and external factors that come into play ( Ismail et al,1998; (Bass& Avolio,2002;(Munjis,2011).
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Date:   08/13/2015

Category:   Business School

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