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Management Styles
Definition
Authoritarian
The manager dictates policies and procedures, decides what goals are to be achieved, and directs
and controls all activities without any meaningful participation by the subordinates.
Autocratic
The manager makes all the decisions, keeping the information and decision making among the senior
management. Objectives and tasks are set and the workforce is expected to do exactly as required.
The communication involved with this method is mainly downward, from the leader to the subordinate
Bureaucratic
Democratic
Style of management that emphasizes procedures and historical methods regardless of their
usefulness in changing environments. Bureaucratic leaders attempt to solve problems by adding
layers of control, and their power comes from controlling the flow of information.
Democratic management style allows for the flow of free thought and the sharing of ideas between
employees and managers. Managers typically want feedback from employees and other managers.
Democratic management style puts all employees in an order of equal importance and involves
feedback from everyone giving the managers a chance to listen and act on employee ideas.
Laissez-Faire
Non-authoritarian management style. Laissez faire (French for, allow to pass or let go) leaders try to
give least possible guidance to subordinates, and try to achieve control through less obvious means.
They believe that people excel when they are left alone to respond to their responsibilities and
obligations in their own ways.
Participative
Type of management in which employees at all levels are encouraged to contribute ideas towards
identifying and setting organizational-goals, problem solving, and other decisions that may directly
affect them.
Paternalistic
Leadership or management style in which a male leader uses his power to control, protect, punish,
and reward in return for obedience and loyalty from his employees, followers, or subordinates.
Although eessentially dictatorial, the decisions tend to be in the best interests of the employees
rather than the business
Management Styles
Definition
Authoritarian
The manager dictates policies and procedures, decides what goals are to be achieved, and directs
and controls all activities without any meaningful participation by the subordinates.
Autocratic
The manager makes all the decisions, keeping the information and decision making among the senior
management. Objectives and tasks are set and the workforce is expected to do exactly as required.
The communication involved with this method is mainly downward, from the leader to the subordinate
Bureaucratic
Democratic
Style of management that emphasizes procedures and historical methods regardless of their
usefulness in changing environments. Bureaucratic leaders attempt to solve problems by adding
layers of control, and their power comes from controlling the flow of information.
Democratic management style allows for the flow of free thought and the sharing of ideas between
employees and managers. Managers typically want feedback from employees and other managers.
Democratic management style puts all employees in an order of equal importance and involves
feedback from everyone giving the managers a chance to listen and act on employee ideas.
Laissez-Faire
Non-authoritarian management style. Laissez faire (French for, allow to pass or let go) leaders try to
give least possible guidance to subordinates, and try to achieve control through less obvious means.
They believe that people excel when they are left alone to respond to their responsibilities and
obligations in their own ways.
Participative
Type of management in which employees at all levels are encouraged to contribute ideas towards
identifying and setting organizational-goals, problem solving, and other decisions that may directly
affect them.
Paternalistic
Leadership or management style in which a male leader uses his power to control, protect, punish,
and reward in return for obedience and loyalty from his employees, followers, or subordinates.
Although eessentially dictatorial, the decisions tend to be in the best interests of the employees
rather than the business