Leadership styles

Leaderships

I really liked this chapter in the book. It was very informative, especially because it pertains to my major. In Business, especially management, one has to know the type of leader or leadership that they display towards others. It is important to understand the types of leaderships there are because they are in our everyday surroundings. Whether it be in your classroom group, work, or government, we see different types of leaderships. The book states that there are 4 types of leaderships. These four types are authoritarian, consultative, participative, and laissez-faire.
Authoritarian leadership is the type of leadership that is in full control of all the rules. They are in control of everything and everyone. In an authoritative type of leadership, things are made simple and everyone follows one set of rules. The negative side of this leadership is that followers under this type of leadership may not agree with the decisions of the leader but they have no say. An example of an authoritative leader would be Hitler.
Consultative leadership is the type of leadership in which the leader will confide in others in a group about important decisions. Often times they will ask others about making decisions, but they have final say. An example of a consultative leadership would be me back in high school when I was Rally Commissioner and in charge or Rallies. I had a committee who would help me decide who I should pick to perform in rallies and events, but I had final say on who was actually going to perform.
Participative leadership is the type of leadership which takes a group effort. Members of the group all have the same say in what important decisions go on in the group. What I notice with these types of leaderships is that there is a lot of clashing and arguments between members, but the outcome is usually better when decision making. An example of this type of leadership would be my group in Bus20 in which all members have the same decision making powers about what type of stocks and companies we have to evaluate.
Laissez-faire leadership is the type of leadership in which leaders do not intervene in actions that followers take. This type of leadership is basically no leadership at all. I’m sure Business students are usually familiar with this type of leadership because often times businesses are in favor of laissez-faire in which government don’t intervene in business with taxes, laws, rules, and regulations.