THE LEADERSHIP STYLES AND THE EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE: A REVIEW

Abstract

The leadership style is the manner of providing direction, implementing strategies and motivating individuals towards the attainment of the desired objectives. Leadership styles are replicated in attitudes and behaviors but these in turn are the outcome of complex interactions between the way individuals think and feel. The researchers highlighted diverse approaches/ styles to leadership that are based on different assumptions and theories. As the time passed, the analysts have worked out to evolve various models, theories and assumptions regarding the leadership styles. The crux of their research was to elaborate the effectiveness of leadership in the re-organization including the establishment of authority, inducing sense of responsibility, streamlining and addressing the employees’ issues in the context of already prevailing situation. Resultantly, among many others, two styles of leadership became much prominent namely transformational and transactional leadership. These two styles have been analyzed in the different socio economic and academic sectors with their distinct advantages. Presently, these two styles are worked out in the different situation depending upon the nature and context.