Critical Reflection on the Effectiveness of Democratic Leadership Style in Clinical Practice

Critical Reflection
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The democratic leadership style is defined as to be the most effective types of style that mainly
leads to higher productivity, enhance the morale of the group and also help the leader to provide
better contributions from the other group members present in the workplace (Iqbal, Anwar, &
Haider, 2015). From all the leadership style I have preferred the democratic leadership for my
clinical practice contexts. I have chosen this leadership style because this leadership style will
help me a lot in future to develop my future career goals and also for my clinical practice
contents. The paper mainly provide a critical analysis of the democratic leadership style in
concerning my knowledge. Democratic leadership style is also known as shared or participative
leadership and this style is helpful for decision-making procedure as it takes a participative role
in this approach (Amanchukwu, Stanley & Ololube, 2015). From various studies, I have learned
that this type of leadership style is used for the free exchange of thoughts and ideas that usually
encourage others. Besides this, it is also considered to be a type of management style in which
the group members play an important role in the decision-making process.
Democratic style is usually focused on group equality where ideas are shared freely and hence it
offers control as well as guidance over the group. A democratic leader is one who mainly has the
problem-solving ability and provides the correct decision that should be needed for that situation
(Nanjundeswaraswamy & Swamy, 2014). Hence I can say that the democratic style of leadership
values affirmation and collaboration of followers. I have learned that the democratic leadership
style encourages team engagement, involvement and participation of each member in every
matter and this will enhances honored for each member present in the particular team. In
addition, democratic leaders are the one who generally motivates and encourages their team
members to provide creative solutions that should be best useful at that condition (Yusuf, 2016).
The reason for which democratic style is also known as the participative style of leadership
because it mainly depends on employee participation. In addition, my knowledge regarding this
leadership style will also explained in this context. The main aim of a democratic leader is to
foster workers or employees' investment in the company and this will only occur if the leader
motivates the employees in their respective role (Kaiser, 2016).
The group members helped and showed great sense of responsibility in managing the work
processes by collaborating and cooperating with each other. There was a sense of disagreement
between few members of the group regarding the interference and inappropriate cooperation
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