What Authoritarian Leadership Is

What Authoritarian Leadership Is

This is a traditional leadership, firm and very strict. These kind of

leaders expect to be listened to, obeyed quickly and exactly. They

will not put up with argument or questions asked. They are believers

in force, and they asked to be treated with a lot of respect.

Laissez-faire Leadership

This is the complete opposite to Authoritarian Leadership. Laissez-

faire is French for ' let them do what they want'. It cant be a

leadership if you have no control over anybody, but very occasionally

they put their foot down.

Democratic Leadership

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Democratic Leadership is the third kind or style of leadership. This

is seen as a moderate type of leadership, between two extremes. This

is said to have the best of both worlds. To round it off, it means

that everyone has a part to play in the decision making-process.

Army- Authoritarian Leadership is displayed here. The Drill sergeant

would shout at the soldiers who wouldn't be marching correctly. He

does this to give them discipline, and make them understand that they

don't expect anything less than they want. So the next time they do

it, they will get it right.

Police- Democratic Leadership is displayed here. If one of the lower

officers couldn't get enough evidence to convict a suspect, then the

higher rank officer maybe unhappy but will not discipline the officer

for his actions. He will explain to him what he could do, and so he

can go out and get it right.

NOT MEETING TARGETS

This could be related to all Public Services.

For Example the fire service: they aren't responding to 999 calls fast

enough…the reason for this is that there is poor motivation in the

ranks.

Douglas McGregor's theory of motivation includes, Theory X and Y. The

first of these management styles is assumption of the mediocrity of

the masses.

THEORY X

1. Workers must be supervised, or quality and quantity of output