After going back through “Critical Thinking” and “The Essential Guide to Group Communication,” I have decided to further explore the different kinds of leadership styles. First a quick recap. Authoritarian is one persons leads the group and makes decisions without any input from its members. Consultative leaders take the members input and makes a decision. This kind of leader usually doesn’t have enough information to make a decision on their own, that is why they turn to a group. In a participative group, one person guides the other members and has very little to do with making a decision. The last style is laissez-faire. This style has little to no leadership. Now on to the research. On http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadstl.html there are 3 different styles. It lists authoritarian, participative, and delegative/free reign. The last one is the same as laissez-faire except the website makes it sounds better than the book does. In our text it says it “has been consistently found to be the least satisfying and effective management style.” It also mentions that the leader is hard to find when a problem comes up. According to the website, “the leader allows the employees to make the decisions. However, the leader is still responsible for the decisions that are made. This is used when employees are able to analyze the situation and determine what needs to be done and how to do it.” It also mentions “this is a style to be used when you fully trust and confidence in the people below you.” I really like how it says that because if more groups or workplaces used a delegative style, their employees would learn to take more responsibility and feel like they have a say in what goes on. After reading what was on the website, I do not see the laissez-faire style as bad as the books makes it seem to be.
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ReplyDeleteThanks so much for posting this blog. It was really helpful and definitely made the whole concept of leadership styles a lot clearer than before. I like how you broke it down using not only the book definitions but how you used your outside source to the fullest. I think that this concept is extremely interesting because there are so many different types of people out in the world and everyone fits into at least two different styles of leadership. Knowing your strong leadership skills can really help you become a better leader and at times a better person.
I like how you went over your discussion on leadership styles because I think leadership is a key component and skill to learn and embrace. Now, in comments to your discussion about laissez-faire, its like applying to types of government. Laissez-faire, in terms of the government, when there is little or no government involvement. And between what our text and the website says, I guess we can see the use of concealed claims through euphemism and dysphemism by making something either better or worse than it may be. Since reading the text made you feel that laissez-faire was bad and the website made you see it as not so bad as what the text made you feel.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great blog and you described the leadership styles very nicely. I found that the delegative style is a unique one to use, because not that many employees believe they have a say at the job. Most of the people who work know exactly how their job is carried out and how a typical day runs. I think by using the style you mentioned it helps out the employees under superiors by giving them a sort of power and maybe boost their pride. By using this style I think that a team of employees would work more efficiently. By working at a restaurant it actually feels like all the employees have the power, because we are the ones talking to all the customers that come and visit. . This was a great topic you've choose it made me realize a couple of new things
ReplyDeleteI really like this blog post. You went over your topic very well. I appreciate you going over leadership because I believe that leadership is a value overlooked by many in society today. I think that people always are looking foe someone else to be a leader. But if everyone is expecting someoneELSE to become a leader, then we are all standing around waiting like dummies. I feel like as we become more advanced in our society, we become less and less socially intelligent. Becoming a leader is becoming a forgotten trait. I for one have not forgotten how to be one. Good blog.
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