IDENTIFYING THE HR EXPECTATIONS – PILLAR FOR OPTIMIZING THE LEADERSHIP STYLE

Considering the dynamic business environment, leadership plays a crucial role in developing organizations and increasing the effectiveness of teams. The traditional approach to leadership, based on rigid directives, is increasingly being replaced by personalized strategies centred on employee needs. With this premise in mind, the objective of this research is to highlight the importance of the new approach, emphasizing that through a better understanding of employee profiles and expectations, leaders can adjust their leadership methods to optimize organizational performance. By embracing an adaptive and personalized approach, leadership becomes a determining factor in increasing organizational performance and motivation. From this perspective, in order to identify the expectations in terms of preferred leadership styles and their impact on team motivation and productivity, along with documentation from open data sources, a case study conducted in a private organization in Romania was applied as a research method. The centralization and analysis of the answers to the questionnaire used as a working tool, allowed the identification of the leadership styles preferred by employees in various organizational positions and their integration within managerial practices to maximize their performance and efficiency. This approach has the potential to increase work effectiveness and employee engagement in achieving organizational goals. Thus, the present study provides an essential theoretical and applied framework for optimizing organizational activities and increasing productivity in the modern managerial context. The research results will help to improve the decision-making process in terms of recruiting and training leaders, ensuring the alignment of leadership styles with employees' expectations, especially in multinational companies, where cultural and situational differences in host countries can be obstacles to the valorisation of human resources and the improvement of the decision-making process.