The document provides an overview of leadership, defining it as the process of influencing individuals or groups towards goal achievement. It highlights various leadership styles, including autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire, discussing their advantages and disadvantages. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of leadership qualities and factors that affect leadership styles within organizations.

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2. Leadership & Styles of
Leadership

3. PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
 INTRODUCTION
 LEADERSHIP DEFINITION
 QUALITIES OF LEADERSHIP
 IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP
 STYLES OF LEADERSHIP
 FACTOR EFFECTING STYLES OF LEADERSHIP
 CONCLUSION
 REFRENCES

4. INTRODUCTION
Leadership is an integral part of management
and plays a vital role in managerial operations. It
provides direction, guidance and confidence to
the employees and helps organization in the
attainment of goals in much easier way. It
acquires dominance and the followers accept the
directives and control of a leader. It provides
direction and vision for future to an
Organization. In short it induced Individual’s to
contribute optimum towards the attainment of
Organization goal.

5. DEFINITION
• “ LEADERSHIP is the process of influencing the
activities of an individual or a group in efforts
towards goal achievement in a given situation”.
• It is the art of influencing and inspiring
subordinates to perform their duties willingly,
competently and enthusiastically for
achievement of group objectives.

6. OUALITIES OF LEADERSHIP
KEY LEADERSHIP
QUALITY
CLEAR VISION
QUICKLY SENSE
AND RESPOND TO
THE PROBLEM
POSITIVE SELF IMAGE
INNOVATIVE IDEAS TO
PROBLEM

7. IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP
 Securing Co-operation
 Use of power
 Co-ordination and command
 Maintaining Discipline
 Developing group morale

8. STYLES OF LEADERSHIP
 AUTOCRATIC OR DICTATORIAL LEADERSHIP
STYLE
 DEMOCRATIC OR PARTICIPATIVE LEADERSHIP
STYLE
 LAISSEZ FAIRE OR FREE REIGN LEADERSHIP
STYLE

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11. AUTOCRATIC LEADERSHIP STYLE
Autocratic
Advantages:
•Provides strong motivation and reward for
the leader
•Quick decision making takes place as single
person decides for the whole group
•Subordinate are only to carry out the orders
of the leader
•Decision making, planning or organizing
need initiative
•Good in certain circumstances, such as
urgent task or military action.
Disadvantages:
poor decisions, poor level of employee
motivation
Leads to frustration, low morale and
conflict among subordinate
Subordinate tend to shirk responsibility
and initiative.
Full potential to subordinate and their
creative ideas are not utilized
Organizational continuity is threatened in
the absence of the leader because
subordinate get no opportunity for
development
A leadership style where
the leader makes all
decisions independently or
without consulting with
subordinate

12. DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP STYLE
Democratic
• A leadership style where a leader encourages employee
participation in decision-making
• persuasive or consultative
• Advantages: better decisions, employee motivation
• It improves the job satisfaction and morale of subordinate
• The leader multiply his abilities through the contribution
of his followers.
• It develops positive attitudes and reduces resistance to
change
• Disadvantages: delayed decision, long consultation
• This style may not yield positive result when interaction
of subordinate with leader is minimum.
• This may be used as passing the buck to others and of
abdicating responsibility
• This style need tremendous communicating and
persuasive skills on the part of leader.

13. LAISSEZ-FAIRE LEADERSHIP STYLE
Laissez-faire
• A leadership style where employees are
encouraged to make their own decisions within
limits
• Advantages: more freedom for employees
• Positive effect on job satisfaction and morale of
subordinates
• Maximum possible scope for development of
subordinates
• Full utilization of potential of subordinates
• Disadvantages: few guidelines, little incentive,
poor motivation, maybe a mess
• Subordinate do not get the guidance and support
of the leader
• It ignores the leader contribution just as
Autocratic style ignores the contribution of the
subordinates
• Subordinates may move in different directions
and may work at cross purpose which may
degenrate into chaos

14. COMPARISON OF LEADERSHIP STYLE

15. FACTORS AFFECTING LEADERSHIP STYLES
 The task
 The tradition of an organization
 The type of labor force
 The leader’s personality
 The time
 Gender?

16. MANAGER AS LEADERS
• WHICH LEADERSHIP STYLES IS BEST SUITED
FOR MANAGERS
 Depends on function of the leader, subordinates,
and situation
 Some leaders can’t work well with high
participation of subordinates
 Some employees lack the ability or
desire to assume responsibility
 Participative decision making may be better when
time pressure is not acute

17. MANAGER AS LEADERS con…
 Leadership Styles
 Autocratic leadership—boss makes decisions
on their own without consulting employees
 Democratic leadership—involves subordinates
in making decisions
 Free-reign leadership—leader believes in
minimal supervision, leaving most decisions to
subordinates

19. CONCLUSION
 “People ask the difference between a leader and
a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
 “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and
a follower.”

20. REFERENCES
 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR- JIT S CHANDAN,
FRED LUTHANS AND STEPHEN P. ROBBINS
 WIKIPEDIA
 GOOGLE SEARCH