The document discusses two main styles of leadership: authoritarian and democratic. The authoritarian style is characterized by a centralized power structure with rigid rules and less freedom for members, who are expected to follow the leader without question. While this can achieve short-term goals efficiently, it often leads to less job satisfaction and involvement from members. The democratic style involves power sharing and cooperative decision-making that values different opinions. It aims to treat people as resources rather than machines. This can motivate creativity and innovation but may result in slower progress. Overall, the document analyzes the key features, advantages and disadvantages of these two contrasting leadership approaches.

1. Styles of Leadership
S.G.Isave,
Asst. Professor,
Tilak College of
Education,
Pune-30

2. Concept of Style
• A distinctive manner of
expression.
• A set of rules.
• Consistent practices.
• Roles of Head and manager.
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3. Concept of Style
• Fixation of Duties and
responsibilities.
• Nature Positive and negative
motivations.
• Rigidity and flexibility in rules.
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4. Main styles of Leadership
Styles
Authoritarian Democratic
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5. Authoritarian / Autocratic
• Characteristic of an absolute ruler
or absolute rule; having absolute
sovereignty.
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6. Features of Autocratic style
• Centralised powers.
• Rigidity in rules.
• Work centred.
• Result oriented.
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7. Features of Autocratic style
• Less freedom to members.
• Leader is a boss.
• Leader decides, members follow.
• Leadership is beyond questions.
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8. Advantages
• More importance to task.
• Highest work efficiency can be
achieved.
• Effective to gain sort term goal.
• Interpersonal grievances are less.
• All processes become faster.
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9. Disadvantages
• Less satisfaction to members.
• Only Technical fulfilment is done.
Members involvement may be less.
• Staff mobility is more.
• Long term success cant be achieved.
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10. Disadvantages
• Leader’s ego in more important than
work.
• Target may shift from task to boss.
• Creativity and innovativeness in
depressed.
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11. Disadvantages
• Best quality cant be achieved,
because members intel isn’t used by
leader.
• Decisions may not comprehensive.
• Useful management concepts Human
rights, Human resource are denied.
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12. Features of Democratic style
• Decentralised power.
• Division of authorities.
• Correlation of duties and
responsibilities.
• Cooperative decision making.
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13. Features of Democratic style
• Trust on members abilities.
• Importance to deferent opinion.
• Tolerance of failure.
• Discussion is a primary way of
solution.
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14. Advantages
• Working environment remains healthy
and satisfactory.
• Innovativeness and creativity is
motivated.
• Human treated as a resource not as a
machine.
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15. Advantages
• Stress less environment motivate to
contribute your best.
• Objectivity and transparency.
• Organization survives for long period.
• Quality of work would be better.
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16. Disadvantages
• Slow work progress.
• More conflict less work.
• Less work more payment.
• More discussion less action.
• Disadvantages of freedom.
• Person oriented Decisions than task.
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17. Disadvantages
• No accountability.
• High co-dependency.
• High impact of caste, religion,
language, region, race etc.
• More political interference.
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18. Thanks
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