Leadership Styles and Theories: A Comprehensive Analysis for MGMT301

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Leadership

Introduction
• To enhance the capabilities
• To achieve the overall vision
• Theories & styles of leadership
• Higher level of productivity
• Characteristics of an effective leader
• Improving high level of effectiveness & efficiency

Leadership styles
• Autocratic leadership style
• Democratic leadership style
• Coaching leadership style
• Strategic leadership style
• Transformational leadership style
• Laissez-faire leadership style
• Charismatic leadership style

Autocratic leadership style
• One-dimensional style
• Involves higher level of authority
• Leader is an ultimate decision maker
• Examples: Donald Trump and Albert J Dunlap
• Subordinates are not consulted regarding the
implementation of decisions
• Employees work on the basis of instructions

Democratic leadership style
• More participative in nature
• Views of employees are being considered
• Active & upward communication is being enhanced
• Also called as participative style of leadership
• Mostly preferred leadership style as compared to
others

Coaching leadership style
• Leaders are coachers or teachers
• Involves supervision of the team members
• Modern style of leadership
• Increase in the motivational level of all the employees
• Enhanced skills of organizational performances

Strategic leadership style
• Long term success is being enhanced
• Strategic vision
• Effective strategic tools
• Well-trained members of the teams
• Leaders are created

Transformational leadership style
• Desirable style of leadership
• Strategic vision
• Setting up the higher organizational goals
• Include deadlines
• Transformational leaders
• Expectations are being challenged

Laissez-faire leadership style
• Delegation of responsibility
• Zero level of interference by the team leaders
• High level of scope of innovation
• Flexible in nature
• Enhances self-motivation
• Encouraging the respective organizational work

Charismatic leadership style
• Leaders are self-motivated & confident
• Less-favorable
• One man-show rather than the collective efforts of all
the organizational teams
• Powerful standing is being established

Power of leadership
• Identified by John French & Bertram Raven in the
early 1960s
• Ability of leadership affected by power
• Enhance success in the leadership role
• Two types of leadership power: formal and personal

Formal power of leadership
• Coercive: fear of losing the job, review of poor
performance
• Reward: to reward individuals for compliance,
includes bonus & promotion
• Legitimate: position of power, authority of
organizational members