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Styles of Leadership S.G.Isave, Asst. Professor, Tilak College of Education, Pune-30
Concept of Style • A distinctive manner of expression. • A set of rules. • Consistent practices. • Roles of Head and manager. sgisave@in.com
Concept of Style • Fixation of Duties and responsibilities. • Nature Positive and negative motivations. • Rigidity and flexibility in rules. sgisave@in.com
Main styles of Leadership sgisave@in.com
Authoritarian / Autocratic • Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty. sgisave@in.com
Features of Autocratic style • Centralised powers. • Rigidity in rules. • Work centred. • Result oriented. sgisave@in.com
Features of Autocratic style • Less freedom to members. • Leader is a boss. • Leader decides, members follow. • Leadership is beyond questions. sgisave@in.com
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. sgisave@in.com
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. sgisave@in.com
Disadvantages • Leader’s ego in more important than work. • Target may shift from task to boss. • Creativity and innovativeness in depressed. sgisave@in.com
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. sgisave@in.com
Features of Democratic style • Decentralised power. • Division of authorities. • Correlation of duties and responsibilities. • Cooperative decision making. sgisave@in.com
Features of Democratic style • Trust on members abilities. • Importance to deferent opinion. • Tolerance of failure. • Discussion is a primary way of solution. sgisave@in.com
Advantages • Working environment remains healthy and satisfactory. • Innovativeness and creativity is motivated. • Human treated as a resource not as a machine. sgisave@in.com
Advantages • Stress less environment motivate to contribute your best. • Objectivity and transparency. • Organization survives for long period. • Quality of work would be better. sgisave@in.com
Disadvantages • Slow work progress. • More conflict less work. • Less work more payment. • More discussion less action. • Disadvantages of freedom. • Person oriented Decisions than task. sgisave@in.com
Disadvantages • No accountability. • High co-dependency. • High impact of caste, religion, language, region, race etc. • More political interference. sgisave@in.com
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