Leadership Styles: Advantages, Disadvantages, Crisis

This report examines three key leadership styles: Laissez-Faire, Transactional, and Transformational. It details the advantages and disadvantages of each style, providing insights into their practical applications. Furthermore, the report analyzes the impact of these leadership styles during organizational crises, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each approach in such challenging situations. The analysis includes a discussion on how each style can either exacerbate or mitigate the effects of a crisis, supported by relevant references to provide a comprehensive understanding of leadership effectiveness.

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Date:- 22 March 2020

Overview
 The objective of this report is to develop an
understanding over different type of leadership
style including Laissez-Faire, Transactional, and
Transformational leadership style.

Laissez-Faire Leadership Style
 This is a hands off approach where manager assign
some work to employees and do not take follow up
unless the task is completed.
 The first advantage of this leadership style is that
it allows people to use their own specific skills and
enhances level of satisfaction among them.

Transactional Leadership Style
 The second type of leadership is Transactional
style that focus on organisation, supervision or
performance.
 The first pros of this style are that it motivate
employee is positive as well as negative method
which maximize productivity.
 Further as it improves productivity level, the
same reduces cost.

Transformational Leadership Style
 Transformational leadership is the one where
leader encourage and motivate workers to create
and innovate change that grow shape of the future
success of the entity (White, 2018).
 The lead advantage of this theory is that the same
is able to check the company’s current situation
and generate a right vision for the growth and
improvement.

Impact in case of Crisis
Laissez-Faire Leadership Style :-At the time of
crisis, this leadership style is likely to make the
situation even worse as such situation demands
involvement and control of leader and if an entity
relies on this leadership style then there are chances
of having no control of the causes of crisis.

References
futureofworking.com. (2020) 8 Transactional Leadership Advantages and
Disadvantages. [online] Available from: https://futureofworking.com/8-
transactional-leadership-advantages-and-disadvantages/ [Accessed on
21/03/2020]
Gaille, B., (2018) 15 Laissez Faire Management Style Advantages and
Disadvantages. [online] Available from: https://brandongaille.com/15-laissez-
faire-management-style-advan tages-and-disadvantages/ [Accessed on
21/03/2020]
Thompson, J. (2019) Advantages and Disadvantages of Transformational
Leadership. [online] Available from:
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-disadvantages-transformational-
leadership-20979.html [Accessed on 21/03/2020]

References
 White, S., K. (2018) What is transformational leadership?
A model for motivating innovation. [online] Available
from: https://www.cio.com/article/3257184/what-is-
transformational-leadership-a-model-for-motivating-
innovation.html [Accessed on 21/03/2020]
 Zhang, Z., Jia, M. and Gu, L., 2012. Transformational
leadership in crisis situations: evidence from the People's
Republic of China. The International Journal of Human
Resource Management, 23(19), pp.4085-4109.