Leadership may be defined as the quality of a manager to guide and influence the work of his sub-ordinates. According to the koontz and o’donnell, ” leadership is influencing people to follow in the achievement of common goal”. It is the ability to build up confidence, enthusiasm and zeal among people and induce loyalty and devotion in them. The main task of leadership is to direct, unify the efforts of the individual of the group and lead towards the achievement of desired common goal.
1. Autocratic leadership: in this type of leadership leader
has absolute power over his or her employees or team. Employees and them
members have little opportunity for making suggestion. This style is effective
for routine and unskilled job.
2. bureaucratic leadership: it ensures that their staff
follows rules and procedures exactly. This is very suitable style for work
involving serious safety risk.
3. charismatic leadership: it injects huge dose of enthusiasm
into his team. Charismatic leader tend to believe more in him or her than in
team.
4. Democratic leadership: although a democratic leader will
make the final decision, he or she invites other members of team to contribute
to the decision making process. This increases
job satisfaction in team and develop people’s skill.
5. lesser-fair leadership: the French term means “ leave it
be” and it is used to describe leader who leads his or her colleagues to get
with their own work.
6. transactional leadership: this style of leadership is
based on the idea that employees agree to obey their leader totally when they
take on the job.
7.transformational leadership: a person with leadership style
is a leader who inspire his/her team constantly shared vision of the future .
8. situational leadership: while transmission leadership is
often highly effective there is no one right way to lead or manage that suits
all situation.
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