WEEK 9-10_Leadership Style

• Authoritarian Leadership

• Participative Leadership

• Delegative Leadership

give the 3 types of Leadership style

Leadership style

refers to a leader's characteristic behaviors when directing, motivating, guiding, and managing groups of people.

▪ They can also motivate others to perform, create, and innovate.

Kurt Lewin

In 1939, a group of researchers led by a psychologist ——-

• set out to identify different styles of leadership

autocratic leaders

Authoritarian Leadership also known as

Authoritarian Leadership (Autocratic)

provide clear expectations for what needs to be done when it should be done, and how it should be done.

Authoritarian Leadership (Autocratic)

strongly focused on both command by the leader and control of the followers.

• There is also a clear division between the leader and the members.

Authoritarian Leadership (Autocratic)

make decisions independently with little or no input from the rest of the group

Authoritarian Leadership (Autocratic)

Researchers found that decision-making was less creative under authoritarian leadership.

• Abuse of this method is

controlling, bossy, and dictatorial.

Autocratic usually viewed a:

Authoritarian Leadership (Autocratic)

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.

democratic leadership

Participative Leadership also known as

Participative Leadership (Democratic)

is typically the most effective leadership style.

Participative Leadership (Democratic)

leaders offer guidance to group members, but they also participate in the group and allow input from other group members.

Participative Leadership (Democratic)

Group members feel engaged in the process and are more motivated and creative.

Participative Leadership (Democratic)

make followers feel like they are an important part of the team, which helps foster commitment to the goals of the group

Laissez-Faire

Delegative leadership also known as

Delegative Leadership (Laissez-Faire)

The followers in this group also made more demands on the leader

Delegative Leadership (Laissez-Faire)

showed little cooperation, and were unable to work independently.

Delegative Leadership (Laissez-Faire)

offer little or no guidance to group member

• leave decision-making up to group members.

Delegative Leadership (Laissez-Faire)

▪ It often leads to poorly defined roles and a lack of motivation.

Laissez-faire leadership

Lewin noted that ——- tended to result in groups that lacked direction where members blamed each other for mistakes, refused to accept personal responsibility, and produced a lack of progress and work

Lewin

WHO noted that laissez-faire leadership tended to result in groups that lacked direction where members blamed each other for mistakes, refused to accept personal responsibility, and produced a lack of progress and work