Leadership Styles
Define democratic leadership. Identify three characteristics of democratic leaders? Explain why people might prefer to work for a democratic leader.
A style in which managers work with employees to make decisions. EX: everyone meets, discusses a situation, listens to each others opinions People would want to work with a democratic leader work with a democratic leader because they can work as a team.
Managers frequently use more than one leadership style in the workplace. What are the three styles of leadership that are most commonly used?
Autocratic Leadership, Democratic Leadership, Free-Rein Leadership
Explain why some people have trouble working for an autocratic leader. Identify two groups of people, besides firefighters, police officers, and combat troops, that are managed with an autocratic leadership style. Describe why they should be led in this manner.
Bus Drivers and Teachers They would have a hard time because autocratic leaders want everything done their way with no room to move or compromise and that leaves no way to work as a team.
Define autocratic leadership. Use your own words to describe at least three traits of autocratic leaders.
One person runs everything and makes all decisions without consulting others. EX: when autocratic leaders give orders they expect them to be obeyed without question, autocratic leaders assume others must have decisions made for them, autocratic leaders believe people have to be watched all the time.
Define free-rein (hands-off) leadership. Identify four things that free reign leaders must do in order to be successful. Describe two potential problems that free-rein leaders may face.
The leader to set goals for managers and employees and then leave them alone to do their work. EX:they have to be available to answer questions at all times, delegate power to managers, deal with boarder decision making, and have confidence in their workers They could have problems is their employees don't do what they are supposed to or if their workers don't goy things done when they are supposed to.
Define self-managed teams. What are two essential elements of a self-managed team? Describe the role of a team leader.
Work groups that supervise themselves. They need to be able to motivate eachother and work together. They make the decisions for the team.
Use your own words to define delegating and describe three ways it benefits leaders. What are three factors that leaders have to consider before delegating power and responsibilities to employees?
delegating is giving someone responsibilitys Delegating could benefit a leader because if they don't have time they can tell someone to do the work for them, things can get done faster if there is many people working on it, and this way someone can work on the small things and the manager can focus to the main or more important tasks. Leaders would have to consider that it might not be done perfectly, it will be done the way someone else wants it, and they need to make sure the someone that they pick is capable of the task at hand.
In your own words, describe two ways that self-managed teams are organized. Describe two benefits that are associated with self-managed teams. Explain why some people may struggle to work with a self-managed team.
they know how to work together and can manage, they get more work done and can be productive, they need to be told what to do