Autocratic Leadership
Unit 1
Autocratic leadership
What is autocratic leadership - Autocratic leaders make decisions without consulting their team members, even if their input would be useful. This can be appropriate when you need to make decisions quickly, when there's no need for team input, and when team agreement isn't necessary for a successful outcome. In this style of leadership, a leader has complete command and hold over their employees/team. The team cannot put forward their views even if they are best for the teams or organizational interests. They cannot criticize or question the leader’s way of getting things done. The leader himself gets the things done. The advantage of this style is that it leads to speedy decision-making and greater productivity under leader’s supervision. Drawbacks of this leadership style are that it leads to greater employee absenteeism and turnover. This leadership style works only when the leader is the best in performing in the job, unskilled and routine in nature or where the project is short-term and risky.
A good example of this is Hitler he showed autocratic leadership by not taking into account other people’s wishes or opinions because he made himself into power by creating his own army and taking command over Germany. By doing this he was in power and was able to tell people what to do when he wanted it done if any order was disobeyed you would be shot by his personal police the s.s. he used propaganda and force, he locked dissenters into camps like Auschwitz and he used radio and posters to make Germans think he is the only one who can lead them out of misery. He had duplication of various offices in his government. Those offices would work on similar projects but he would choose which project would go forward while limiting the information to the various group. Thus everything went through him and information was not shared. He was a very self-centred man because he wouldn’t take any one else view on things and this lead to even his
Autocratic leadership
What is autocratic leadership - Autocratic leaders make decisions without consulting their team members, even if their input would be useful. This can be appropriate when you need to make decisions quickly, when there's no need for team input, and when team agreement isn't necessary for a successful outcome. In this style of leadership, a leader has complete command and hold over their employees/team. The team cannot put forward their views even if they are best for the teams or organizational interests. They cannot criticize or question the leader’s way of getting things done. The leader himself gets the things done. The advantage of this style is that it leads to speedy decision-making and greater productivity under leader’s supervision. Drawbacks of this leadership style are that it leads to greater employee absenteeism and turnover. This leadership style works only when the leader is the best in performing in the job, unskilled and routine in nature or where the project is short-term and risky.
A good example of this is Hitler he showed autocratic leadership by not taking into account other people’s wishes or opinions because he made himself into power by creating his own army and taking command over Germany. By doing this he was in power and was able to tell people what to do when he wanted it done if any order was disobeyed you would be shot by his personal police the s.s. he used propaganda and force, he locked dissenters into camps like Auschwitz and he used radio and posters to make Germans think he is the only one who can lead them out of misery. He had duplication of various offices in his government. Those offices would work on similar projects but he would choose which project would go forward while limiting the information to the various group. Thus everything went through him and information was not shared. He was a very self-centred man because he wouldn’t take any one else view on things and this lead to even his