Macbeath's Leadership Style

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An Autocratic leader is one who believes the key to leadership is being centre to all activities (Ram 2001, Mgbodile 2004, Melling and Little 2004).

This leader ship style is similar to Goleman (2002) leadership styles:
• Pacesetter
• Commanding
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And Macbeath (2003) leadership descriptions:
• Authoritarian
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Characters of an autocratic leader:
• Authority begins and ends with the leader
• Absence of communication with staff in decision making
• Reluctant to share power or authority with others
• Expects staff to comply

Notes

An autocratic leadership style is similar to the pacesetting and commanding styles of leadership which Goleman (2002) refers to.
Macbeath (2003) also discusses an authoritarian style, where leaders do …show more content…

• Distributes responsibilities and encourages participation from all (Harris and Spillane, 2008).
• Highly motivating and raises moral.
• Encourages staff to take a leadership role in their own initiative (Heikka et al, 2013).
• Shares responsibility with all employees. Leadership is not the sole responsibility of the manager but is shared amongst the team (Brighouse and woods, …show more content…

• Collaboration.
• This would be affected if used to give staff, parents and children a voice (O’sullivan, 2009).

Notes

Leithwood et al (1999) suggests that distributed leadership allows staff to become more satisfied within their role and increases professionalism, efficiency and collaborative working. Distributing leadership within the staff teams ensures that they work collaboratively.
This can be ensured by creating targeted and focused improvements.
Furthermore, by allowing staff to lead change in line with the National Improvement framework (2016), Building the Ambition (2014), How Good is our Early Learning and Childcare (2016) it will build establishments capacity for improvement in creating a high quality learning environment for children where shared vision and values are placed with great importance. Staff are highly committed to their role in supporting children and their families, the community and working collaboratively with other agencies to provide individual support.

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