Democratic Leadership
Leadership:
What is Leadership?
“Leadership is the art of leading others to deliberately create a result that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.”
Who is a Leader ?
In general, a Leader is someone who has FOLLOWERS.
Leadership Styles
Leadership style is a leader's style of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people.
The different styles of leadership are as follows:
1. Authoritarian Leadership
2. Paternalistic Leadership
3. Democratic Leadership
4. Laissez-faire Leadership
5. Transactional Leadership
6. Transformational Leadership
1. Authoritarian Leadership:
The authoritarian leadership style or autocratic leader keeps strict, close control over followers by keeping close regulation of policies and procedures given to followers. To keep main emphasis on the distinction of the authoritarian leader and their followers, these types of leaders make sure to only create a distinct professional relationship. Direct supervision is what they believe to be key in maintaining a successful environment and follower ship. In fear of followers being unproductive, authoritarian leaders keep close supervision and feel this is necessary in order for anything to be done.
Examples of authoritarian communicative behavior: a police officer directing traffic, a teacher ordering a student to do his or her assignment, and a supervisor instructing a subordinate to clean a workstation. All of these positions require a distinct set of characteristics that give the leader the position to get things in order or get a point across.
The traits Authoritarian Style of Leadership are that the goals are set individually, engage primarily in one-way and downward communication, controls discussion with followers, and donate interaction.
Examples:
Adolf Hitler was extremely authoritarian. He required the population of the Third Reich to accept everything that he said as absolute law, and was able to impose a death sentence on anyone who failed to do so.
What is Leadership?
“Leadership is the art of leading others to deliberately create a result that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.”
Who is a Leader ?
In general, a Leader is someone who has FOLLOWERS.
Leadership Styles
Leadership style is a leader's style of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people.
The different styles of leadership are as follows:
1. Authoritarian Leadership
2. Paternalistic Leadership
3. Democratic Leadership
4. Laissez-faire Leadership
5. Transactional Leadership
6. Transformational Leadership
1. Authoritarian Leadership:
The authoritarian leadership style or autocratic leader keeps strict, close control over followers by keeping close regulation of policies and procedures given to followers. To keep main emphasis on the distinction of the authoritarian leader and their followers, these types of leaders make sure to only create a distinct professional relationship. Direct supervision is what they believe to be key in maintaining a successful environment and follower ship. In fear of followers being unproductive, authoritarian leaders keep close supervision and feel this is necessary in order for anything to be done.
Examples of authoritarian communicative behavior: a police officer directing traffic, a teacher ordering a student to do his or her assignment, and a supervisor instructing a subordinate to clean a workstation. All of these positions require a distinct set of characteristics that give the leader the position to get things in order or get a point across.
The traits Authoritarian Style of Leadership are that the goals are set individually, engage primarily in one-way and downward communication, controls discussion with followers, and donate interaction.
Examples:
Adolf Hitler was extremely authoritarian. He required the population of the Third Reich to accept everything that he said as absolute law, and was able to impose a death sentence on anyone who failed to do so.