Management and Leadership Flashcards
What are the characteristics of an authoritarian leadership style?
- Leaders make decisions of their own
- identify objectives and say exactly how they will be achieved
- Very little delegation
- McGregor Theory X approach
- Most likely to be used when subordinates are unskilled, not trusted and their ideas are not valued
- work environment does normally have little or no flexibility
What are the characteristics of a paternalistic leadership style?
- softer than autocratic as leader explains the specific reason as to why he has taken certain actions
- Believe involving workers is motivating
- Still little delegation
- leader decides whats best for employees
What are the characteristics of a democratic leadership style?
- Workers are involved in making decisions.
- The democratic leader holds final responsibility, but he or she is known to delegate authority to other people, who determine work projects
- democratic leadership is one of the most preferred leadership as it involves fairness, competence, creativity, courage, intelligence and honesty
What are the characteristics of a laissez faire leadership style?
- Laissez-faire leadership gives authority to employees
- leaders have conscious decision to delegate power
- Managers / employees have freedom to do what they think is best
- Effective when staff are ready and willing to take on responsibility, they are motivated, and can be trusted to do their jobs
- This kind of leadership has been consistently found to be the least satisfying and least effective management style as they hardly get involved
What does the Tannenbaum and Schmidt Continuum do?
Places managers on a scale ranging from autocratic management through increasing levels of participation in decision making
What does the Blake Mouton Grid do?
Lets managers assess their leadership
What are the characteristics of country club style on the Blake Mouton Grid?
-over concern with worker welfare and harmony leads to happy but unproductive workforce due to lack of control
What are the characteristics of team style on the Blake Mouton Grid?
- seen as the ideal with high concern for people and production = happy, motivated and productive
- do this by making sure that their team members understand the organization’s purpose and by involving them in determining production needs.
What are the characteristics of impoverished style on the Blake Mouton Grid?
- low regard for production & little interest in creating a satisfying or motivating team environment
- this results are disorganization, dissatisfaction and unmotivated workforce
What are the characteristics of produce or perish style on the Blake Mouton Grid?
- strict work rules, policies and procedures, and can view punishment as an effective way of motivating team members.
- This approach can drive impressive production results at first, but low team morale and motivation will ultimately affect people’s performance
What are the characteristics of middle of the road style on the Blake Mouton Grid?
- manager tries to balance results and people, but this strategy is not as effective as it may sound.
- Through continual compromise,fails to inspire high performance and also fails to meet people’s needs fully
What are the external factors impacting management style?
- In a recession businesses need a strong leadership
- when economy is growing democratic leadership may be a good option as not so strong
What are the internal factors impacting management style?
- urgent tasks need different leadership from routine tasks
- The type of workforce e.g large unskilled workforce would benefit from authoritarian management
Who are the internal stakeholders?
- Employees who are interested in job security and promotion prospects
- The owners who are the most important stakeholders who make profit and have final say
Who are the external stakeholders?
- Customers who want high quality at low price
- suppliers want to be paid right and on time
- local community
- government gains more taxes with higher profits
- creditors
