Autocratic Leadership

You are an HR manager working for a large IT solutions firm in the UK. Your organisation has been experiencing a high degree of labour turnover across the organisation. This prompted you to devise and distribute an employee survey. The findings of this survey revealed low morale across the various departments and in particular a poor perception of leadership within the business. Discuss the changing nature of leadership and the policies and practices that you could design and implement to ensure good leadership in the future.
Northouse (2004) has defined the concept of leadership stating that a person forms an aim and attracts people to willingly work for that aim. he further explains that the quality of leader is not possessed by every individual
The reason for this change and evolution in the leadership style is mainly due to changing business culture in the market where the level of competition has increased and increased in substitutes and complementary goods available to the consumers. thus, to meet the level of intense competition and the consumer expectations, the top management and the leaders of the organization have realized that the higher commitment and engagement of the employees would help them to meet the objectives and thus the role of employees have increased along with giving more roles, recognition and power to the employees while shifting the style of leadership to participative and transformational leadership style. most of the leaders in the companies form their competitive advantage by having skilled and talented employees all over the organization who are offering high level of commitment to the goals of the organization and thus to retain their commitment and their interest into the goals of the organization, the leaders use transformational leadership style and reduce the job attrition rate and outperform with their activities and in their tasks.
According to models built of Bass et al (1998) on leadership,
Thus, leaders feel that the best way to conduct their job is to practice different style whichever suits the best to the situation. thus a leader may use transactional leadership style, autocratic leadership style, laissez faire leadership style, participative leadership style, transformational leadership style etc. while practicing the style of autocratic leadership style, the leader would make all the decisions by himself, build strict guidelines which is to be followed by all the employees, having centralized power and authority etc. the leader using bureaucratic leadership style would have strict guidelines for everything while and would want all the activities to go as per the guidelines and may be lacking in flexibility and creativity in operations. A leader practicing charismatic style of leadership or transformational leadership style would be constantly offering inspiration and enthusiasm to its employees and gain high level of commitment from the employees towards the jobs and roles of the organization. A leader using participative style of leadership would be continuously engaging employees to discuss and participate in decision making in taking actions for long term and short term while using their suggestions to form the policies and in building the strategies of the future. A leader who