Leadership Styles

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LDR/711A LEADERSHIP THEORIES AND PRACTICE |

1/24/2012 |

Dr. J. Chambers, Phd

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Leadership Styles

There are four leadership styles each have a combination that sets them apart Autocratic Leadership. According to the Autocratic leadership, which is a style that leaders who make decisions on their own without consulting employees to enjoy and empowerment, which is a practice in which managers lead employees by sharing power, responsibility, and decision making with them (Boone, L. E., & Kurtz, D. L. 2009 p. 260-270). This mixture creates responsibility and accountability. If the leader is made to lead then, in return they will make certain key decisions based on experience, proven results and a pocket of advisors that will guide them based on their own comprehension of the field along the way. Empowerment leadership would give the futuristic cutting edge per see, to create a diversified ultimate decision making policy. This creates a hierarchy which is necessary to let the employees who are coming up on the ladder to have a cause and effect history so to speak, for many different common and uncommon situations to use in the future.

When one combines these two leadership styles, in common and uncommon situations, one may see higher productivity and overall accountability within employers and employees giving the workers a sense of self-respect within the company and experience to handle issues on their own as well as, the ability to be noticed in leadership aspects.

However, one also must realize there are just as much cons to autocratic and empowerment leadership styles. Autocratic leadership consist of involve incompetent feedback; plus, many feel these types of leader’s shouldn’t be followed but used as an extreme measure to keep a business that is falling, in place (autocratic leadership). Perhaps seeing the cons of empowerment can be better understood in a phrase that was spoken by, Dr. Hmieleski: a PhD level economics and...