Leadership Style in Management

1. Styles of
leadership
By
Kumar.A

2. Who is a Leader?
 The person who leads or
commands a group,
organization or country
 Has a vision and leads
the group towards a
common goal that
needs to be achieved
(Cherry)

3. Styles of Leadership
Autocratic Democratic Laissez-faire

4. Autocratic Leaders
 Characterized by individual
control over all decisions and little
input from group members
 Provide clear expectations for
what needs to be done, when it
should be done, and how it should
be done.
 Best applied to situations where
there is little time for group
decision-making or where the
leader is the most knowledgeable
member of the group (Cherry)
 Example: Steve jobs
Steve jobs
leadership is the
perfect example
of the impact of
autocratic
leadership style
on the
organization.

5. Autocratic Leaders: Effects on
Teams
Positive Negative
-Helps New Members by
teaching them how to
perform a task so they have
a set of clear expectations
-allows knowledgeable
members to direct new
members in terms of
appropriate behavior until
the new members are
capable of making
decisions on their own
-decision making is less
creative
-doesn’t develop good
relationships between group
members
-lessened commitment: the
leader takes credit for all the
success
-high stress: members feel
stressed due to high
expectations and a low
feeling of worth

6. Managing: Autocratic
Effective Not Effective
-In businesses/companies
where the tasks are more
independent (ex.
Construction Companies)
-Certain decisions, such as
those that affect worker
safety, should be handled
by experts and should not
be open to discussion
-In work places where work
involves everyone’s input
and decisions are
influenced by the whole
group (ex. Magazine
company)

7. Democratic Leaders
 Generally the most effective leadership
style
 Offer guidance to group members, but
they also participate in the group and
allow input from other group members
 Encourage group members to
participate, but retain the final say over
the decision-making process.
 Members in this group were less
productive than the members of the
authoritarian group, but their
contributions were of a much higher
quality.
 Example: Ratan Tata
Ratan Tata is a
democratic
leader because
decision come
from the
collective mind of
the group.

8. Democratic Leaders: Effects
on Teams
Positive Negative
-inspires better creativity, cooperation, motivation and
communication among employees.
-invites workers to discuss the factors that will influence a
particular decision, workers have a better understanding
of the reasoning behind the decisions that are made.
-Workers are more committed to their group’s goal
because they feel that their input has importance
-Democratic leaders often work with their employees to
set workable goals rather than dictating what might be
unobtainable goals.
-not a lot of work may
be accomplished due
to the amount of time
spent on discussion

9. Managing: Democratic
Effective Not Effective
-In work places where work
involves everyone’s input
and decisions are
influenced by the whole
group (ex. Magazine
company)
-Where the leader is the
expert in that field and they
don’t need the input of their
co-workers

10. Laissez-faire or Free-rein leadership
 Least productive of all three
groups
 Offer little or no guidance to
group members and leave
decision-making up to group
members.

11. Laissez-faire: Effects on Teams
Positive Negative
-While this style can be
effective in situations where
group members are highly
qualified in an area of
expertise (Cherry)
-It often leads to poorly
defined roles and a lack of
motivation.
-More demands on the
leader
-Little cooperation and were
unable to work
independently (Cherry)

12. Managing: Laissez-faire
Effective Not Effective
-If the leader monitors what
is being achieved and
communicates this back to
the team regularly
-When individual team
members are very
experienced and skilled self-
starters
-When time is limited and
there are urgent deadlines
to meet
-Need someone to take
charge and the workplace
requires direction

13. Scenarios
You’re in a company meeting and the
leader is talking about ways to achieve their
goals.
1) What would an autocratic leader do?
2) What would a democratic leader do?
3) What would a laissez-faire leader do?

14. Scenarios: Autocratic
 The autocratic would
not consult the rest of
the team and set their
own goals and
assume that the group
members would
achieve them up to
their expectations

15. Scenarios: Democratic
 A democratic leader
would discuss with the
group members, goals
that would be
obtainable. An example
of these are the SMART
goals - specific,
measurable,
achievable, relevant
and timely.

16. Scenarios: Laissez-faire
 Would not set long
term goals for the
group to achieve
and allow members
to work at their own
pace and
independently

17. Leadership vs. Management
Leadership Similar Management
• an original.
• a leader innovates
and develops.
• a leader has a long-
range perspective.
• a leader challenges
the status.
• Leadership is setting
a new direction or
vision for a group
that they work with.
• involve influence,
working with
people, concern
about effective
goal
accomplishment.
• a copy
• a manager
maintains.
• a manager has a
short range view.
• accepts the status.
• controls or directs
people/resources in
a group according
to principle or values
that have already
been established.

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