Leadership Style
Leadership style
Leadership development is considered as one of the key success of management of organizations and companies. Leadership development is involved in the process of improving managerial skills of leadership, realizing both the nature of each organization and the nature of management team in order to implement the right leadership styles. Academic researchers have looked into different management leadership styles and have come up with wildly known three main leadership styles.
According to Kurt Lewin (1939), leadership can be categorized to three main leadership styles which are autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire. Each type of leadership can be applied depending upon each organization and in some circumstances. Every leadership styles have their own characteristics which have both strangeness and weakness. Therefore the differences of structures and cultures in organization are needed to be considered as well.
Autocratic style
The first type of leadership is called autocratic style; this style is used when leaders tell their employees what they want and how they want it accomplished, without getting the advice of their followers. Leader is centralizing the power and limit employee participation.
Prescott (1981) mentioned that autocratic is “The leader was seen as the expert who was capable of making effective decisions on most work matters since he dealt with a pattern of recurring work problems”.
Autocratic provides management with both advantages and disadvantages. First of all advantages are mentioned as autocratic can help to reduce stress due to increase control for management. Colvin et al, (1997) Manager has ultimate power to control everything whatever they done. Moreover autocratic manager can help to stimulate poor employee work perform and manager exerts over subordinates improve their working speed. Short term project with complex element and highly technical skills is the most preferable work situation of
Leadership development is considered as one of the key success of management of organizations and companies. Leadership development is involved in the process of improving managerial skills of leadership, realizing both the nature of each organization and the nature of management team in order to implement the right leadership styles. Academic researchers have looked into different management leadership styles and have come up with wildly known three main leadership styles.
According to Kurt Lewin (1939), leadership can be categorized to three main leadership styles which are autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire. Each type of leadership can be applied depending upon each organization and in some circumstances. Every leadership styles have their own characteristics which have both strangeness and weakness. Therefore the differences of structures and cultures in organization are needed to be considered as well.
Autocratic style
The first type of leadership is called autocratic style; this style is used when leaders tell their employees what they want and how they want it accomplished, without getting the advice of their followers. Leader is centralizing the power and limit employee participation.
Prescott (1981) mentioned that autocratic is “The leader was seen as the expert who was capable of making effective decisions on most work matters since he dealt with a pattern of recurring work problems”.
Autocratic provides management with both advantages and disadvantages. First of all advantages are mentioned as autocratic can help to reduce stress due to increase control for management. Colvin et al, (1997) Manager has ultimate power to control everything whatever they done. Moreover autocratic manager can help to stimulate poor employee work perform and manager exerts over subordinates improve their working speed. Short term project with complex element and highly technical skills is the most preferable work situation of
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