Leadership Styles
We are creating a class mind map of the different kinds of leadership styles.
In groups, you will have 5 minutes on each leadership style. In this time you should research and add information or examples to each leadership style.
E.g. add a definition, images, historical examples, modern day examples, leadership attributes or characteristics associated with this leadership style, positives of this style, negatives of this style, interesting facts, etc.
Authoritarian
Authoritarian is a leadership style where an individual has control over all decisions and the group members only have a restricted amount of authority.
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Examples
For example, dictatorship, absolute monarchies, and Fascism
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Definition
Authoritarian leaders, are leaders with executive power and exercise full control over employees or subjects
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Paternalistic
The leader treats their employees and business partners as extended family, and expect loyalty trust and obedience in return
Executive leaders may view employees as important stakeholders. This means that they may prioritise employee needs over interests of investors.
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Paternalistic leaders heads organizations where employees may be treated like partners, in exchange for increased trust and loyalty.
“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” – Leroy Eimes
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Examples
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an example in everyday life are laws which require seat belts, wearing helmets while riding a motorcycle, and banning certain drugs
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Democratic
Modern Day examples
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A democratic leader is somebody who allows more input from other members of the group, so a modern example of this would be current leaders, or business companies similar to Bill Gates who sometimes takes input from others
Definition
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
all eligible citizens have the right to participate, either directly or indirectly
Democracy is a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting to choose who leads the country or state.
Modern Democracy exists in two forms, representative and pure. In a pure democracy, there is no government, every single person has a vote on every single issue brought up. Everyone in the nation is automatically in the parliament. Pure democracy only exists in some small Scandinavian communities.In a representative democracy, everyone elects a parliament and the parliament makes decisions on behalf of everyone.
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Laissez-faire
there are little or no regulation, privileges, tariffs and subsidies.There is unrestricted freedom
The definition of laissez faire is the theory that governments should have a very minimal regulation of commerce or that people should be able to do what they want without interference. An example of laissez faire are the economic policies held by capitalist countries.
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Cons
Laissez-faire leadership is typically linked to a negative outcome due to low effectiveness from the leader, poor job performance and sometimes there's less satisfaction from the rest of the group
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Transactional
Modern Examples
There are examples such as a transaction between different people, businesses and companies
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Definition
Transactional leadership is a leadership style that focuses on supervision, organisation and performance
Transactional leadership promotes compliance with existing organisational goals and performance expectations through supervision and the use of rewards
a theory of leadership where a leader works with teams to identify needed change, creating a vision to guide the change through inspiration
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Interesting Facts
This type of leader is responsible for maintaining routine by managing individual performance and facilitating group performance.
Transactional leadership is a style of leadership in which leaders promote compliance by followers through both rewards and punishments.
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Qualities
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- The ability to make difficult decisions
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Has a good connection or relationship with followers, team members
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Definition
This leadership style has to deal with change as this change will be good for the followers, this change also makes it so that the followers become better leaders in the future
In its ideal form, it creates valuable and positive change in the followers with the end goal of developing followers into leaders.
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Bureaucratic
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Definition
A system of government, in a federation, where decisions are made by state officials instead of a government Representative.
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a system for controlling or managing a country, company, or organization that is operated by a large number of officials employed to follow rules carefully
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