Styles of Leadership
S.G.Isave,Asst. Professor,Tilak College of Education,Pune-30
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Concept of Style
• A distinctive manner of expression.
• A set of rules.• Consistent practices.• Roles of Head and manager.
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Concept of Style
• Fixation of Duties and responsibilities.
• Nature Positive and negative motivations.
• Rigidity and flexibility in rules.
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Authoritarian / Autocratic
• Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty.
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Features of Autocratic style
• Centralised powers.• Rigidity in rules.• Work centred.• Result oriented.
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Features of Autocratic style
• Less freedom to members.• Leader is a boss.• Leader decides, members follow.• Leadership is beyond questions.
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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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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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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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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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Features of Democratic style
• Decentralised power.• Division of authorities.• Correlation of duties and
responsibilities.• Cooperative decision making.
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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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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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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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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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Disadvantages
• No accountability.• High co-dependency.• High impact of caste, religion,
language, region, race etc.• More political interference.