6.15.1 Leadership styles

• What are the two interrelated concepts essential for organizational success?

  Leadership and management
• Leadership involves inspiring and guiding a team towards a shared vision
• Management focuses on planning, organizing, and controlling resources to ensure efficiency.
• What is the primary focus of leadership?

  Inspiration and vision
• Leadership utilizes influence and empowerment
• Match the key roles with the correct concept:

  Leadership ↔️ Motivating and guiding teams

  Management ↔️ Organizing and coordinating tasks
• Order the following leadership styles based on their decision-making approach, from most centralized to least centralized:

  1️⃣ Autocratic

  2️⃣ Democratic

  3️⃣ Laissez-faire
• Autocratic leadership involves directive and centralized decision-making.
• What is a key strength of democratic leadership?

  Improves collaboration and morale
• Laissez-faire leadership encourages innovation
• Which leadership style motivates change and long-term growth?

  Transformational
• Match the leadership style with its characteristic:

  Autocratic ↔️ Directive, centralized decision-making

  Democratic ↔️ Participative, involves team in decision-making

  Laissez-faire ↔️ Delegative, provides minimal guidance

  Transformational ↔️ Inspiring, motivates change and innovation
• Autocratic leadership involves centralized decision-making.
• Democratic leadership is participative and involves the team
• What is the main characteristic of laissez-faire leadership?

  Minimal guidance
• Transformational leadership focuses on motivating followers and inspiring change.
• Leadership focuses on motivation and influence, while management focuses on efficiency and productivity
• What are the primary roles of leadership and management?

  Vision and efficiency
• Leadership and management are unrelated roles in an organization.

  False
• Match the leadership style with its example:

  Autocratic ↔️ Military officer during combat

  Democratic ↔️ Team leader involving members in planning

  Laissez-faire ↔️ Start-up CEO allowing teams to manage themselves

  Transformational ↔️ Visionary CEO leading a major company turnaround
• What is a strength of autocratic leadership in crisis situations?

  Quick decisions
• A weakness of autocratic leadership is that it demotivates the team
• Democratic leadership fosters creativity and collaboration.
• Why might democratic leadership not suit urgent situations?

  Slower decision process
• Laissez-faire leadership encourages innovation but may lack direction
• Transformational leadership requires a leader with high charisma to inspire followers.
• What is a potential drawback of transformational leadership?

  Overlooks operational details
• Each leadership style has unique strengths and weaknesses depending on the organizational context
• The autocratic leadership style is effective in crisis situations
• The autocratic leadership style can demotivate the team
• The democratic leadership style fosters collaboration and improves morale
• The democratic leadership style may not suit urgent situations
• Match the leadership style with its characteristic:

  Laissez-faire ↔️ Fosters autonomy

  Transformational ↔️ Drives long-term growth

  Autocratic ↔️ Quick decisions

  Democratic ↔️ Enhances collaboration
• The laissez-faire leadership style lacks direction and may lead to chaos
• The transformational leadership style requires a high level of leader charisma
• Match the situational factor with its impact on leadership style:

  Task complexity ↔️ Complex tasks require guidance

  Team experience ↔️ Inexperienced teams need direction

  Organizational culture ↔️ Influences acceptability of styles

  Time constraints ↔️ Urgent situations require speed

  Crisis or stability ↔️ Crises demand directive leadership
• Task complexity is a situational factor that influences leadership style
• Organizational culture is a situational factor that influences the acceptability of different leadership styles
• Time constraints may require the use of an autocratic leadership style
• A democratic leadership style fosters collaboration and creativity