Leadership Styles

This leader's lack of trust in his or her employees doesn't inspire them to be creative

• Laissez-faire

• Democratic

• Authoritative

• Autocratic

Sets goals and then leaves staff alone to get the job done.

• Democratic

• Transformational

• Laissez-fiare

• Autocratic

Communication goes both ways. Manager is usually unskilled in that industry

• Democratic

• Laissez-faire

• Autocratic

• Participative

Top-down approach: One-way communication

• Democratic

• Autocratic

• Laissez-faire

• Transactional

Best style for crisis management

• Transformational

• Democratic

• Autocratic

• Laissez-faire

Best style for highly specialized industries such as Public Accounting and Law

• Laissez-faire

• Democratic

• Authoritative

• Participative

Management only involved if staff requests

• Super-cool boss

• Laissez-faire

• Democratic

• Autocratic

A benefit to this style of leadership is quick decision making

• Autocratic

• Democratic

• A boss who drinks too much coffee

• Laissez-faire

This style creates the best bond between employee and employer

• Democratic

• Laissez-faire

• Autocratic

• Lots of super strong glue

A con for this type of leadership style is that the productivity may suffer

• Laissez-faire

• Democratic

• Employees need MORE coffee

• Autocratic