Annotated Bibliography - Management Styles of Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness

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Annotated Bibliography

Management Styles of Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness

Liberty University

Abstract

In this paper, presented is an annotated bibliography of management and leadership styles

and the effectiveness on organizations. The purpose of the review is to show the

correlation between management and leadership styles and how the organization reacts

based on that style. There is a lack of total agreement as to what the best style of leadership

is but a combination of a few seems to be best suited for organizational effectiveness.

Management Styles of Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness

Ahmad, A. R., Adi, M. N. M., Noor, H. M., Rahman, A. G. A., & Yushuang, T. (2013). The

influence of leadership style on job satisfaction among nurses.Asian Social Science,9(9),

172-178. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1424326695?

accountid=12085

This article focuses on the roles and responsibilities of leaders that contribute to overall

organizational effectiveness. The object of this study is to investigate the transformational

and transactional leadership styles that may lead to job satisfaction. The study found that

transformational leadership had more of a contribution towards job satisfaction than

transactional leadership. This article is beneficial as it provides information to support that

leadership style does have an effect on job performance and employees job satisfaction.

Bucic, T., Robinson, L., & Ramburuth, P. (2010). Effects of leadership style on team

learning.Journal of Workplace Learning,22(4), 228-248. doi:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13665621011040680

This article explores the effect of leadership style of a team leader on team member ‐

learning in organizations, to conceptually extend an initial model of leadership and to

empirically examine the new model of ambidextrous leadership in a team context. The

leadership style (transformational, transactional, or ambidextrous) adopted by the team

leader has an operational effect on the development of learning as a strategic resource

within the team, and the organization. This article shows how leadership styles influence

team building and organizational behavior. The information provided will be beneficial as

it shows evidence that the leader does have an effect on the team, and also that the leader’s

leadership style is critical to team level learning and related performance.

Carter, Suzanne; Greer, Charles. (2013). Strategic Leadership: Values, Styles, and

Organizational Performance. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 20(4),

375-393. Retrieved from

http://jlo.sagepub.com.ezproxy.liberty.edu:2048/content/20/4/375.full.pdf+html

This article is very informative and provides evidence that values associated with different

leadership styles are related to organizational performance. The article shows a

relationship between strategic leadership styles and performance as well as the importance

of values of strategic leaders. The author describes in detail the importance of transactional