Assignment on Office Management , Topic: Types of Leadership Styles.

TYPES OF LEADERSHIP STYLES
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1. AUTOCRATIC LEADERSHIP STYLE
One of the Old Fashioned Style of Leadership.
An autocratic leader chooses to make the majority of the decisions on his or her own.
He / She prefers to keep control and responsibility over the projects they are assigned to.
They are not likely to delegate decision making to others.
Prefers clear structure and rigid expectations.
Rarely consult with others and not interested in developing their own skills or those of their employees.
This Type of Leadership is Beneficial in a Short Term, Complex , Technical Projects.
This type of Leadership is effective to motivate those who are low skilled employees doing monotonous jobs gets demotivated.
Where there is a high turnover in the employees so keeping organisational knowledge in a leader is important.
2. DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP STYLE
This is one of the most popular leadership style as it creates harmonious productive, evolving force if it is done well.
This type of leadership becomes effective when it is all about making decisions as a Group.
The whole team shares the equal responsibility for making decisions , making changes and making deadlines.
The leader delegates a great deal of the work, letting others to say in what portion of the work they take on.
The Leader seeks continuous feedback and looks for the opportunities for development for both himself and for his team.
Useful when every member of the team contributes their own creativity and knowledge to the process and good way to create and unite a new team of people who has not worked together before.
3. BUREAUCRATIC LEADERSHIP STYLE
In this type of Leadership style, the leader mainly focuses on the employees to follow the rules with consistency.
It became popular when the industrial era began because factory works requires specific rules and procedures to ensure the consistent quality and to protect the health and safety of the workers.
In this type, Leaders gains authority more from his position and employees are rewarded for maintaining the rules and producing consistently.
The Environment tends to be more formal, with clear distinctions between leaders and employees.
Commonly found in Older, Larger organisations .
It became a natural choice for organisations where there is a need to be rigid controls over health and safety measures.
4. CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP STYLE
Main Characteristics is the Leader's Ability to Inspire Others.
Leaders do it by making commitment to a vision by communicating to the team members.
It is possible when the leader creates a vision and generates excitement in others about new possibly risky ideas.
To be a charismatic leader , requires great deal of energy as it requires the advantage of every opportunity to sell the team on a vision and mission of the organisation.
This style depends on the leader's ability to build the trust with team members by demonstrating personal integrity.
It is helpful to rejuvenate an organisation, recreate the face where team members got disheartened.