Leadership style.
The total pattern of explicit and implicit leader’s actions as seen by employees is called leadership style. It is the combination of philosophy, skills traits and attitudes that are exposed in a person’s behavior. Each style also reflects a manager’s beliefs about a subordinate’s capabilities. Leadership style depends on the nature of tasks. Different types of style of leadership are discussed in below.-
1. Positive leaders: Positive leaders are the leaders who emphasize on the reward. Reward may be economic or social. Positive leaders always try to motivate the followers by providing their needs. Supportive models are positive leadership style.
2. Negative leaders: Negative leaders are those who emphasis on penalties. Negative leaders act superior with people. To get work done they hold over their followers, such penalties as loss of job, condemn and a few days off without pay. They are bosses more than leaders.
3. Autocratic Leaders: Autocratic leaders centralize power and decision making themselves. The leaders take full authority and assume full responsibility. This style gives maximum concern to the task and minimum concern to the people. These leaders have no confidence in others, are unpleasant and are interested only in the immediate job.
4. Consultative leaders: Consultative leaders approach one or more employees and ask them for inputs prior to making a decision. These leaders may then choose to use or ignore the information and adviced received, however.
5. Participative leaders: Participate leaders clearly decentralize authority. Participative leaders are those, who share decision making with the followers. The leader and group are acting as a social unit. Participative decisions get importance here.
6. Free- rein leaders: This types of leader has little or no confidence in his/ her leadership ability. He sets no goals for the group interaction. This type of leadership is actually bear. Here followers have full freedom for accomplishing the work..
So at last we can say that in autocratic leadership, only leaders have the power to take the decision, in participating leadership both leader and followers have the power to take the decision and in free-rein leadership, only followers have the power to take the decision.
