Weber's Three Types of Leadership

Throughout history there have always been leaders. Leadership is important in society, although not all leaders are the same. M. Weber described three different types of leaderships, the Authoritarian, Democratic, and Laissez-faire leadership. All of these leaderships tend to have their own advantages and disadvantages.

The Authoritarian leadership is a leadership based on an individual’s ideas that controls a group. The leader usually have little input from others on decision making and only follow only one person’s ideas (Cherry 2014). Most people find this type of leadership to be the most affective in getting things done, because it is strict and demanding. Although, not many people favor this type of leadership; it wins little affection from the followers. This type of leadership can be closely related to a Dictatorship. They both only have one person in control of everything. There are some countries that are an Authoritarian leadership like, North Korea. The person in control in North Korea right now is Kim Jong-Un, he is like the dictator. North Korea is an Authoritarian Leadership because; Kim Jong-Un controls everything. There are some disadvantages of having an Authoritarian leadership. Some of those are, it demands complete obedience, the leader can be seen as bossy /control seeker, and the there can be loss of creativeness in decision making (Cherry 2014). An example of obedience is, some aspects of people’s lives are forced to be changed, because they need to follow certain rules in order to be obedient. In North Korea, all male undergraduates in the hermit kingdom will be required to sport the same hairstyle as supreme leader Kim Jong Un, the BBC reports(Grossman 2014). They are basically forcing people to have part...

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...se three types of leaderships, everyone effective in their own way.

Works Cited

• http://psychology.about.com/od/leadership/f/autocratic-leadership.htm

• http://time.com/38409/north-korea-kim-jong-un-haircut/

• http://www.insidebusiness360.com/index.php/advanatages-and-disadvantages-of-democratic-leadership-styles-6070/ http://psychology.about.com/od/leadership/f/laissez-faire-leadership.htm • https://www.udel.edu/htr/American/Texts/laissez.html

• http://www.hr.com/en/app/blog/2013/04/different-leadership-styles-and-their-advantages-a_hfcoua95.html

• http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_84.htm# o The Global Rise of Democracy: A Network Account

Magnus Thor Torfason, Paul Ingram American Sociological Review, Vol. 75, No. 3 (JUNE 2010), pp. 355-377

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