Democratic Leadership Theories Case Study

REFLECTION CASE STUDY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is an process by which the leader can guide, direct and motivate the behavior
or work of the employees towards the accomplishment of the particular goal in the given
situation in the organisation(Skills of leaders,2019). This study highlights situational leadership
theories and the democratic leadership theories and further the report will highlights the personal
reflection of being an leader. It reveals various lack of skill in the leadership style and also
provide measures to improve the leadership skill. In this regard present report has been prepared
that involves various leadership style.
MAIN BODY
Situational Leadership theory refers to those leaders that adopt unique leadership style on
the basis of situation and development level of the team members. It is effective source of
leadership because it adapts to team needs and set beneficial balance for whole organisation.
This leadership style describes various role of leader(Mencl, Wefald and van Ittersum, 2016).
Leader tells
The function of leader is to lead and take decision for successfully work. While
motivating and encouraging the team and also essential that the instruction is clear and conscious
which is understand by colleagues.
Leader sells
In this situation the leader offers constant supervision to the team and also providing
feedback. During this stage leader ask it co-workers to gather suggestion, new ideas and
improvement that contribute to project.
Leader Advices
In critical situation leader must encourage and facilitate teammates(Mumford and et.al.,
Watts, 2017). It is only source to get best out of them by getting the guidance towards the
objective.
Leader delegate
This level of situation where individual are mature and know how to behave, what their
role and what is expected from them. As leader explain everything clearly. Because of this
reason, leader delegate responsibility to their colleagues and also respect their way as carrying
out task and entrusted them & decision they make.

Democratic leadership is very open and collegial type to run a team. Where ideas freely
move among the team and discussed it openly. Seat is given to everyone so that free-flow
discussion can be done(Miscenko, Guenter and Day, 2017). This type of leadership is needed in
rapidly changing and dynamic environment where few can be taken as constant. In swift moving
firm, for improvement every option to be considered and keep team falling from out of date.
Democratic leadership are used when the situation changes frequently, that time it offers great
deal of smoothness to adopt more better source of doing things. But unfortunately it slowdown
the decision making in the structure, So it may embrace better and new methods. This leadership
can bring best out of experienced professional team. It increase the skill and talent by giving
chance to share their views, rather than easily expecting them. If decision is complex and broad,
than it is essential to have Unique area of expertise represented.
If a company want to build an effective and high performing team situation leadership is
the way to do that. Leaders have to handle the changes in situation in an effective way(Desai,
Lockett and Paton, 2016).. Leaders are responsible to resolve problems of their workers and
make them feel happy as well. I implements situational leadership approach in order to lead my
team members. I look at situation with different perspectives. I worked as leader in XYZ
company for more than two years. I have a great experience of handling different situation as
being leader. As there was a time in our company where there was conflicts between the
employees, many workers are not satisfied with their jobs and situation was created as the
employees were not willing to continue the job. So being a leader I manage the situation in such
a way that, I talk to each employee personally, listen to their problems and try to solve it in a
significant manner so that they not leave the organisation. I realised that time that I have good
problem solving skills which help me in handling critical situations being a situational leader.
This experience of mine or this skill of mine help me to get higher positon because superiors are
required to resolve quarries quickly.
For a leaders behaviours matter a lot, that how they behave in an organisation and handle
situations(Levin and Schrum 2016). Leaders have to deal effectively in each situation,
sometimes they have to react loud and sometimes they have to handle condition with clam. My
behaviours changes according to circumstances or not. I am calm and introvert person I handle
the situation very calmly with relaxed mind but some times the situation is like that being a
leader can't control myself and become angry sometimes. As my behaviour changes sometimes

according to the conditions in the company, which I think is not a good habit. Hence I will
required to control over my anger so that I can build a strong team otherwise I would not get
success as a great leader in future.
Leaders are required to closely monitor given tasks and complete the task with quality. If
leader is unable to monitor the task, then it can increase chances of mistakes at workplace(Jiang
and et.al., 2015). As leader my job is to handle each task very carefully and deal with the
employees in a peaceful way, but sometimes the workers are very lenient and do not listen to my
orders so I have to be strict to them, so that they follow my orders and act according to that.
Being strict to staff every time is not good but it is my job to act according to the situation. In
uncertain situation I managed the task so efficiently as provided training to the employees so that
develop their skills, I make good arrangement for the workers and provided flexible environment
so that the workers are satisfied and works for long time in company, this also helps in reducing
labour turnover. Hence my motivation and planning skills are good which support me to handle
tough situations well and retain team members with me for longer duration. This skill of mine
can help me to perform well in the future and get more development opportunities in my career.
It is the responsibility of a leader to motivate others in achieving their goal as well as
organisational goals(Kearns and et.al., 2015). Leader has to set clear vision by influencing
employees to understand and accept the future state of the organisation. As the role of leader is to
communicate with the employees and made them understandable what's their duty and roles.
Being a leader communicate the plans, strategies and targets through different ways so that they
are easily understandable by the employees. I think my communication skills are good. But there
are some negative points which needs to be improve such as active listing as it is the most
important. I sometimes do not listen to what the other person is saying. So when I improve this
problem, I can gather more information and the views of other persons are also taken. Thus,
better result can be carried out. I feel that in should have an open communication with the staff
so that more data can be collected in less time. I always made a positive communication with the
staff but some times they are not satisfied so I have to work on this, as it is very crucial for a
leader to be positive. If I listen them well then I would be able to understand their need which
will support me to handle them well and make them able to work better in organisation. This
skill will help me in the future to work better and get higher positon.

As being a strategist leader in the company from past one year. I have potential to
encourage the employee in the organisation and also keeping the employee updated about what
is happening around and within the organisation. And always use to create organisation structure,
for that use to allocate various resources to the employees and express them strategies vision of
the company
the main objective is to increase the productivity of the organisation and to increase the
productivity I always use to motivate the employees and being patience to under the problems of
them and always solve their problems by using various tactics. And always use to be calm and
self control so that control the disturbing moods and desire of others and always thinking before
acting As an leader I found lack in self awareness among myself regarding own mood and
emotions which make impact on others. That effect the mood of the others people. I have to
understand myself regarding the mood and emotions so that it will not effect the other people in
the organisation. As an strategic leader its my responsibility to encourage the employees and
keep on understanding the view and feeling of the subordinate and make decision after
considering them.
The role of a leader is to motivate the employees(Tang, 2019). Leadership is used as
means of motivating others. Motivation helps employees in raising their morale and self
confidence. Myself have capability to motivate the employees to do the work more seriously
and efficiently. For motivating the staff first I started searching the needs of employees and what
things motivates them. For workers who get motivated by monetary rewards myself started
giving bonuses and incentives and other employees who needs appreciation and recognition I
started praising and complementing them. This is my strength that being a leader can motivates
the workers. But I should adopt more ways so that it can provide better motivation to the people.
There are various conflicts in the organisation as different people have different
thinking’s so it is obvious that conflict arises. I have good experience to handle conflict
situations. As conflict arises in my company that employees are not satisfied with job roles and
relation between them are not good. So for making better relations between the employees being
a leader I started giving group projects and make teams so that employees interact with each
other and better communication can be created. Thus, helps in reducing conflicts. But feels that I
must analyse the problem more deeply so that correct measure can be taken out. I have delayed
in solving conflict as the role of leader is to take action and confronting the issues before its too

late. So I must work on that. Another conflict is that the employees are not satisfied with their
job roles so started providing training and development programs. But I feel that should started
giving bonuses to employees so that they are satisfied. Thus, this assist in solving conflicts in
organisation.
Leaders are required to take correct decision that can give positive results to business
unit. Being leader my job is to make good decision in though situation(Coleman, 2018). As the
company is making technical changes ie, adopting new machines for working and advance
technology. So for adopting these changes I made measure that by which means changes can be
introduced to the employees. Being a leader myself made training and development programs for
the employees so that they learn how to work on new technology. I think this is my greatest
strength that I can make desirable decision in less time. Hence I can be profitable for companies
hence I can get more development opportunities in near future.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it can be concluded that leadership plays and important role in
managing the affairs of an organisation. The report concludes about different leadership styles as
Situational leadership refers to when the leader or manager of an company works and acts
according to the current situation. Democratic leadership is known as participative leadership in
this style members of group take participation in decision making process, so for good decision
making organisation should adopt democratic style. Further the study concludes that how role of
leaders impacts the company in different situations. Leaders assist in solving conflicts which
helps in increasing the productivity of organisation. Further report also concludes that how
communication is important as by effective communication employee relation can be improved.

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