An effective leader influences the followers in a desired manner to achieve goals. It is evident from the literature that different leadership styles may affect organization effectiveness and performance. The aim of this study is to conduct a review analysis of literature of different leadership styles over years. Information was extracted after reviewing many articles from journals on leadership styles. It relates different leadership styles to theory X and theory Y. Furthermore, the study recommends that transformational and transactional leadership styles are more important as more work has been done about it and there are other areas of leadership styles which need more attention.
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