Leadership Styles and Self-Assessment Handout - JNB514

This assignment presents a leadership self-assessment handout designed to help individuals understand their leadership style. The assessment is based on the Leadership Attributes Scales and other tools, providing a framework for evaluating behaviors in a leadership role. The handout includes instructions, a rating scale, and a scoring system to determine whether a leader leans towards autocratic, collaborative, or empowering styles. It also provides a graphic layout to map the scores and categorize the individual's leadership approach. Furthermore, the document details the characteristics of each leadership style—autocratic, collaborative, and empowering—and prompts the user to consider the dominance of any one style and its implications. The assignment is intended to foster self-awareness and encourage reflection on effective leadership practices. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering various study resources, including past papers and solved assignments.

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Handout: Leadership Assessment
Team leadership styles profile
This Audit tool is based on the Leadership Attributes Scales devised as part of the Leadership Curriculum, Monash University,
Industry Taskforce on Leadership and Management skills, Australia, March 1996; & The Institute for Working Futures (1994)
Frontline Supervision Values Self-Appraisal Tool and (1997) Climate Diagnostic Tool, Sydney, Australia inclusive. Permission
to reproduce and use is limited to non-commercial, educational purposes only. Original online version is available at
http://www.marcbowles.com/tools/toolkit.htm.
Instructions
The following items describe aspects of leadership behaviour. Respond to each item according to the way YOU
would be most likely to act in your leadership role. Place a tick in the column 1, 2, 3 or 4 where you believe this
characteristic would be part of your style.
Rating: (1) Always (2) Frequently (3) Occasionally (4) Never
As the front line leader of the team I would ... 1 2 3 4
1. Maintain strict discipline to force staff to achieve consistent
outcomes.
2. Focus on customers.
3. Control all aspects of operations.
4. Delegate to others.
5. Ensure those who "need to know" are involved in
decisions.
6. Share authority with department/ team members to assist
with task completion.
7. Would feel no need to explain my actions.
8. Trust the staff/ team members to exercise good judgment.
9. Try out my ideas in the department/ team.
10. Removes causes of problems.
11. Solve problems as they arise.
12. Get swamped by detail.
13. Time pressures demand immediate decisions.
14. Be willing to change how tasks have been allocated to
individuals to meet department/ team outcomes.
15. Predict things accurately most of the time.
16. Build on past experience but seeks better solutions to
problems.
17. Limit training costs.
18. Encourage training and learning to support department
operations.

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Now score your responses. For every tick in a column add the score at the top of a column – i.e. A tick in column
two is worth 2, a tick in column four is worth 4 and so on.
Add all the even line scores (2, 4, 6, 8, ...) TOTAL __________
Add all the odd line scores (1, 3, 5, 7, ...) TOTAL __________
OVERALL TOTAL __________
Now use the graphic layout to map your scores.
H i g h
M e d i u m
L o wC o n c er n f o r
T a s k
C o n c e r nf o r
P eo p l e
Collaborative
Front Line
Leader
Productive &
Cooperative
Empowering
Front Line
Leader
High
Involvement
Autocratic
Front Line
Leader
Focus on Costs
& Control
6
14
21
30 30
21
14
6
40
1
60
WHAT KIND OF FRONT LINE LEADER ARE YOU?
The even column score relates to the empowering (right) style front line leader.
The odd column score relates to the autocratic (left) style front line leader
The combined total score equals the (middle) collaborative front line leader score.
14
24
38

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Style- Grouping These style of leaders typically
Autocratic • Reinforces authority
• Central control and decision making
• Benevolent direction and leadership systems
• Seek power and reinforce their authority by not delegating
it to others
• Highly interventionist in processes and decisions
• Direct - downward communication
• Authority from position and power
Collaborative • Encourages involvement
• Shared power and responsibility
• Control and direction shared
• Multi channel two-way communication, with strong lateral
communication
• Tangible and mutual ownership of goals and rewards
Empowering • Personality driven
• Organic approaches to setting goals and implementing
plans
• Non interventionist
• Authority and power through group effort
• Reinforces positive and uses delegated authority to gain
commitment
• Open communication with emphasis on horizontal
channels/flow
Consider:
1. Does any one style dominate? Is this expected? Why?
2. Does it matter if any one style dominates?