Leadership Styles Flashcards
Extreme form of transactional leadership
Authocratic leadership style
Leaders have complete control over staff
Authocratic leadership style
Little opportunity to make suggestions
Authocratic leadership style
Advantage:
Efficient – decisions are made quickly, and work can begin immediately.
Authocratic leadership style
Disadvantage:
Unhappy staff
Authocratic leadership style
Follow the rules rigorously
Bureaucratic leadership style
Advantage:
Staff follow procedures precisely
Bureaucratic leadership style
Disadvantage:
Not flexible, creative, and innovative
Bureaucratic leadership style
Also known as transformational leadership
Charismatic leadership style
Inspire eagerness in their teams – motivating
Charismatic leadership style
Advantage:
Staff becomes productive and committed
Charismatically leadership style
Disadvantage:
Confidence is placed in the leader rather than the team.
Leaders can feel invincible
Charismatic leadership style
Leaders make the final decision, but include the team in decision-making
Democratic/participative leadership style
Advantage:
Encourage creativity and members and are highly engaged
Job satisfaction
Encourages members to develop skills
Democratic/participative leadership style
Disadvantage:
Falters in situations when speed or efficiency is essential
Democratic/participative leadership style
Allows people to work on their own (autonomy)
Laissez faire leadership style
Leaders abdicate responsibilities and avoid making decisions
Laissez-faire leadership style
Advantage:
High job satisfaction and increased productivity
Laissez-faire leadership style
Disadvantage:
Maybe damaging if the members are not knowledgeable and skilled and cannot manage their time well
Laissez-faire leadership style
Members agreed to obey when they accept the job
Transactional leadership style
Members are paid in return for effort and compliance
Transactional leadership style
Advantage:
Leaders can punish members if work is not within the standard
Transactional leadership style
Disadvantage:
Purely transactional
Transactional leadership style