LEADERSHIP STYLES

1. Autocratic
Characteristics

When Effective

Tells others
what to do
Limits
discussion
Group does not
experience
feeling of team
work

Time is limited
Individuals lack
skill and
knowledge
Group doesnt
know each
other

When Ineffective

Goal is to develop a sense

of team
Members have some
skill/knowledge
Group wants an element of
spontaneity

2. Democratic
Characteristics
When Effective
When Ineffective
Participative
High degree of
Low sense of team
style
skill and
/interdependence
motivation
Leader
Members have low degree
among group
encourages
of skill / knowledge
members
group to be part
Group expects what to be
A sense of team
of decision
told what to do
making
exists
Leader keeps
Routines are
members
familiar to
informed
participants
3. Bureaucratic
Characteristics
Manager is by the
book
Everything is done
according to
procedure or policy

When Effective
When Ineffective
Performing task
Lose their interest
over and over
in their jobs and coworker
Understand
Do only what is
certain
standards and
expected of them
procedure
and no more
When safety and
Resentment from
security training
the workforce under
is being
the manager over
conducted.
their management

style, particularly if
it is seen to be
more autocratic
than democratic

4. Laissez-Faire
Characteristics
hands off style
Little direction is
provided and group
is given freedom
All authority or
power is given to
the group
5. Monarchy
Characteristics
Power is inherited
and passed down
the Royal family
line ( hereditary)
A monarch will rule
for as long as the
monarchy exists
Monarchies often
go hand in hand
with religion. If a
nation has a state
religion, the
monarchy will
usually be strongly
affiliated with it

When Effective
Time is available
Group is motivated
and /or a sense of
team exists
Members of the
group have some
degree of
skill/knowledge

When Ineffective
Group is
unmotivated
Members have little
skill or knowledge
High degree of
conflict is present

When Effective
When Ineffective
Have life tenure
Monarchs are
and are not subject
not chosen and
to national
elected by
elections, unlike
people unlike
other leaders under
politicians who
different types of
are voted and
governments
selected by
people
The people who are
If monarchs
in line for the throne
are taught how to
became
run and lead a
inefficient and
country from a very
bad leaders, they
young age
cannot be held
liable by the
They tend to be
people
more focused on
Monarchs are
running their
country and
recognized as
concentrating on its
supreme
overall
legislator,

development. They
think about long
term goals rather
than short term or
temporary ones

6. Communism
Characteristics
Governments owns
all land and
property, all
production and
distribution is
controlled by the
state, in theory
everyone is equal
and works towards
sharing wealth.

executor and
judicator and
although they
are assisted with
their personal
advisors, it is still
them who have
the final say and
no one is
allowed to break
this

When Effective
When Ineffective
It embodies
It hampers personal
equality
growth
It makes health
It dictates on the
care, education and
people
employment
It does not give
accessible to
financial freedom
citizens
It does not allow
business
monopolies