Leadership styles

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Leadership styles

• Year 13

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Objectives

• To understand the different types of leadership
• To understand how this can affect motivation and
  management of employees

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Leadership styles
Democratic
Laissez faire
Autocratic
Management styles
Reactive
Proactive
Paternalistic
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Autocratic

• Set objectives alne and allocate tasks
• Expects workers to do exactly what they say
• No consultation in decision making

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Autocratic

• Lead to poor motivation
• Workers cannot put their views forward
• Workers not likely to feel involved in the
  running of the business (no ownership)

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Continued

• Staff are less likely to want to help out to meet
  deadlines or raise standard of service
• Some organisations have to be autocratic
• Police, Army as decisions need to be made quickly

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Paternalistic

• Benign style of autocratic
• Also caters for the workers social and physical
  needs
• Manager tries to treat everyone as an individual
  (Inconsistent treatment)
• Workers are more likely to feel looked after
• Example Fast food industry

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Democratic

• Workers are included in the decision making
  process
• Taking time to talk to staff etc can take time
  away from production
• Decisions can take longer as all aspects of
  hierarchy are consulted
• All democracy has winners and losers
• Motivating as workers feel part of the business
• A sense of ownership

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Laissez-faire

• Minimum input giving the staff a free reign
• Hands off approach
• Workforce need to be skilled otherwise
• Poor coordination/low discipline
• Used in marketing as allows for creativity

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Laissez-faire

• Questions that need to be considered to use this
  approach
• Can the workers be relied upon unsupervised?
• Do they have the skills and the resources to work
  unsupervised?
• Does the work lend itself to being done in a free
  atmosphere?
• Do we need creativity to flourish?

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Proactive and reactive

• Proactive Anticipates issues and plans ahead of
  them (short and long term)
• Reactive Will wait until problems manifest
  themselves and act accordingly
• Which is best?

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In your coursework

• Discuss the different types in relation to their
  effectiveness and usage for your chosen
  organisations