BSc Business Management: Appraisal and Comparison of Leadership Styles

This presentation analyzes and compares autocratic and democratic leadership styles. It begins by defining leadership and highlighting its importance in organizations, followed by a detailed explanation of the characteristics of both autocratic and democratic leadership styles. The presentation then identifies organizational functions where each style might be most appropriate, providing clear reasoning for the choices. Furthermore, the presentation includes a self-appraisal of the presenter's own leadership style, justifying the alignment with a particular style and its associated key characteristics. The content emphasizes how leadership impacts employee motivation, productivity, and organizational success. The presentation also touches on an academic leadership model to further illustrate the concepts. The assignment is designed to demonstrate comprehension of leadership theories and exhibit aptitude for future leadership roles within an organization.

Appraisal and Comparison of
Leadership styles

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
An illustration of the key characteristics for both Autocratic and Democratic leadership styles.
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Identify organizational functions where these two leadership styles might be most appropriate
and provide clear reasoning as to why.........................................................................................2
Identify and appraise your leadership style and associated key characteristics where you
should distinguish clearly the reason why you align yourself to a particular style.....................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is defined as the ability of an individual to influence or guide members of an
organization for achieving a goal. A leader knows how to motivate the employees by giving
them innovative ideas and also helps them in understanding the system. A great leader should
have good communication skills, management skills, goal oriented, creative and self-confident.
Leadership is strategic process of resources for achieving success in an organization. A leader
helps in providing guidance and helps to minimize potential threats that can affect your
productivity (Horner, 2020). The report will include the characteristics for both autocratic and
democratic leadership styles and how these leadership styles are beneficial for any organization
and that will be explained by the help of an academic leadership model. The report will also
elaborate the self-appraisal by using these leadership styles.
MAIN BODY
An illustration of the key characteristics for both Autocratic and Democratic leadership styles.
Effective leadership also have a great impact on the performance, employee retention and
morale. A great leader is the one who have empathy towards the other individual, one should
know to connect in a way lets that person know you understand what it means to be in their
situation. Having a good leader in an organization leads to the overall productivity and
performance, customer satisfaction and large investments. Therefore it is good to have a higher
authority to report to. A leader provides you the mentorship or liability of doing the work in an
organized way and encourage you at every stage (Nanjundeswaraswamy, and Swamy, 2019).
The main purpose of leadership is to have a clear understanding of the team’s purpose and what
it must to do to make it a reality. There are two types of leadership styles such as autocratic and
the other one is democratic leadership styles.
Autocratic leadership styles-In this type of leadership style an individual is having control over
all the decisions and have little input from group members. Autocratic leaders makes choices
which is based on their ideas and judgments and rarely accept the advice from other people.
There are many characteristics of using the autocratic leadership styles like it allows little or
almost no input from the members of the group, requires leaders for making the decisions,
provide leaders with the ability to dictate the work method and process, helps in establishing
rules and try to clearly outlined and communicate those rules to the team members, discourages
creativity and also demotivate the out of box thinking, helps in creating highly structured and
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very rigid environment and at last this style allows for quick decision making(Chukwusa, 2018).
The autocratic leadership style helps in improving the productivity and the autocratic leaders
provide a clear information to their team members in order to have a more direct way of
communication.in this style the leaders takes the decision and which reduced the stress of the
team members and also provide a sound decision which helps in providing many benefits to the
organization and also to the team members as well.
Democratic leadership styles-Democratic leadership style is the process in which every single
individual is responsible or have equal participation in the decision making process. The word
democracy means “anything which rune by the help of people” and this word works well in
running any organization as well. There are many characteristics of using the democratic
leadership style while working in the organization like this style helps in solving the complex
issues within the organization, this style can be used by any individual in any type of industry,
the democratic leaders have a more set of ideas and concepts which can be applied for running
the organization or team in an more effective manner, it enhances honesty amongst the
employees and also help in improving the team knowledge(Kilicoglu, 2018). The democratic
leadership styles also helps in connecting people to their work and encourages more substantial
commitment levels. This also provide a robust connectivity between the team members of the
organization and emphasizes value and morality.it also helps in creating a connection between
the employees and the manager and help the team to develop more strength and therefore helps
in increasing the efficiency and productivity of the employees.
Identify organizational functions where these two leadership styles might be most appropriate
and provide clear reasoning as to why.
For making a successful organization it is very important to have leadership qualities in the
employees.it is the process of influencing the employees to do the work in a more effective
manner and also doing the work by willingness. The leadership in the organization is essential
for achieving the three challenges. The first challenge is to provide a shared vision of where the
organization is heading and also the mission of the organization (Al Khajeh, 2018). The second
challenge is to set the aim or objectives in which the leaders try to convert the strategic vision
and directional course into specific performance for getting success in the organization and the
third challenge is to make a strategy for that will help in determining that how the objective will
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be achieved. Leadership is very helpful for making the organization more effective as this helps
in providing a strategic approach for performing the functions and operations of the
organization. An effective leader in the organization helps in maximizing the efficiency and also
for achieving the goals. Leadership is one of the important and effective part which is required
for the management of the organization. The autocratic leadership style is the process of
decision making in which only single individual is involved and do not take any input from the
other employees in the organization. This type of leadership style helps in providing a clear
chain of command and also offer a structure to the organization, establish clear rules and
regulations and streamline the communication as well. This type of leadership style is beneficial
for the organization as it supports in providing teams and people with a strong sense of
direction.an autocratic leader have the ability of taking decisions on their own without
considering anyone’s opinion.as a result this will increase the productivity and also reduce the
stress of the team members (Setiawan, and et.al, 2021). Another benefit of using the autocratic
leadership style in the organization is this can able to achieve the goals who are inexperienced
and will not able to do the work by their own so this helps in counter inexperience or skill-gaps.
Similarly the democratic leadership style is considered to be the most effective style and brings
many benefits to the organization.in this the leader welcomes the ideas of all the employees for
taking any type of decision. In this every team member is motivated for participating,
recognition and satisfaction. This is very beneficial for the organization as it helps in building
the relationship between the team members. This also increase the morale and job satisfaction of
the employees. A strong and clear vision for the future have to build by the democratic leaders in
order to achieve success and growth in the organization.by inviting the contributors in the work
and facilitating the team work one can build a strong foundation for the vision of the
organization. This can be further understood by understanding the concept of academic
leadership model. The academic leadership model has been provided by the senior
administrative leader by focusing on creating values for the organization.it is a type of
leadership that includes such roles like creating mission and vision which is based on the
research data for the organization.in the same way the autocratic and democratic both the
leadership style are very beneficial for increasing the productivity and efficiency of the
organization as well of the employees working in the organization. Both the leadership styles
have benefits and characteristics in their own ways.by having such an effective leadership styles
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in the organization one can able to achieve higher growth rate and success in their professional
as well as personal life. This will help the individuals in having a good work life environment
and encourage them to meeting their objectives. This helps the organization in many other ways
also like it helps in promoting the communication, ethics, inclusion and respect.it allows the
leaders of the organization to remain goal oriented and dedicated towards their work.it also helps
in directing an organization ‘s employees for improving their efficiency and the achievement of
their goals(Caillier,2020). The organizational leaders helps in communication the overall
mission and objective of the organization and helps in developing a strategic plan for achieving
the goals by applying their skills and abilities in the work.
Identify and appraise your leadership style and associated key characteristics where you should
distinguish clearly the reason why you align yourself to a particular style.
For the self-appraisal the most effective leadership style that can be applied in the professional
as well as personal life is to choose the democratic leadership style.it has been observed that post
COVID- 19 pandemic situation the issue of work from home is rising in very rapid manner and
for this the leaders and managers have to manage the team over the con calls and for the
effective team management process it is very essential for the leaders to adopt some leadership
style for getting a team which dedicated and also motivated. In the democratic leadership style
the best part is that it involves the participation of each team member of the organization and
this help in solving the complex issues in a very short span of time. This is also known as
participative leadership style and it is all about distributing the powers and gaining the ouput.in
this type the manager lead the entire team members by collecting the input, motivating the
collaboration and also by giving value to the expertise members of the team and also each
member is responsible for decision making process (Gadirajurrett, and et.al, 2018). This will
also help the individuals in having a good leadership quality and improves the culture of
employee engagement, commitment and also job satisfaction. This leadership styles also helps in
building a deeper relationship between the team members and the employees. The democratic
leadership style should be adopt by every person in their personal and professional life as well
and this can be also be applied in making any decision in the working environment of the
organization. Many organizations follow the democratic leadership styles in the form of:
 Employee engagement surveys
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 360 feedback is a key element for keeping the employees engaged and motivated at the
workplace. The 360 degree feedback is growing in popularity and it gives a view of
employee performance.it have many benefits like strengthening, accountability and
collaboration among the team members.
 Other forums for the employees to share their ideas, interests and concerns such as
debriefs, check-ins or idea pitches.
There are many examples of the leaders who used to adopt the democratic leadership style in
their professional personal life(İnce, 2018).one of the example is the former CEO of PepsiCo,
Indra Nooyi who have demonstrated that how she valued the team members by writing
personalized letter to the parents of her team members.in the same way the democratic leader
helps in encouraging the individuals for raising their voice and share their opinions and ideas for
the betterment of their performance and by this the team will be able to come up with new and
innovative ideas and provide creative solution to the problems. There are certain ways and
scenario that helps in developing the democratic leadership style while working in the
organization. When someone want creativity and innovation while working. Just like Google is
famous for its democratic leadership where employees plays a crucial role in making important
decisions of the company. They use extensive discussions and brainstorming for doing this.
When the company have a millennial workforce. It has been observed that today’s employee
wants to work with those team leaders who have the ability to handle the pressure, have a quality
of stress management, who are problem solving, who have good decision making, adaptability
and have empathy towards others.by having all these features in an individual one can easily
adopt the democratic leadership styles .also the democratic leadership style is further divided
into four types which are participative leadership, shared leadership, open book management,
participative decision making and democratic management style.in the democratic leadership
style opinions of all the team members are forward in the team meetings and every team member
can speak their minds in the meeting(Bonsu, and Twum-Danso,2018). This is one of the most
efficient leadership style that should be followed by everyone in their personal and professional
life for making the work life more effective and significant.
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CONCLUSION
Leadership is the key to success and it has been understood that for running any business it is
very important for the employees to understand the concept of different leadership styles for
making the work more effective. Leadership is the ability to direct a group of team for achieving
a common goal. Leadership brings enthusiasm and motivation in the team members and
motivated them for meeting their objectives. The report also concluded the introduction of
leadership and how this is beneficial in the workplace. Also the autocratic and democratic styles
have been discussed in the model by the help of academic learning model. The report also
elaborated on which leadership style should be required for the self-appraisal and how these
leadership style is beneficial for the organization. Similarly leadership helps in making strategies
and planning for achieving the goals in a more efficient manner. Both the leadership styles are
unique in their own ways and helps the employees in their wok life.in autocratic the leader takes
all the decisions and in the democratic leadership style all the team members are invited for
taking decision and they support the ideas of each and every person.
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