This document discusses different leadership styles. It defines leadership as getting people to willingly follow and do what the leader wants. It then describes five common leadership styles: authoritarian, where all power is centralized in the leader; paternalistic, where the leader acts as a caring parent; democratic, where decision-making is decentralized and participative; laissez-faire, where all decision rights are given to workers; and transactional, where the leader motivates followers through rewards and punishments. The document provides brief explanations of each style.

1. Leadership

2. Is the knack of getting other
people to follow you and to do
willingly the things you want
them to do
Leadership

3. Leadership
Styles
Is a leader's style of
providing direction,
implementing plans and
motivating people

4. Authoritarian
or Autocratic
Paternalistic Democratic Laissez-faire Transactional
Leadership
styles

5. Authoritarian (or Autocratic) Style
Power and authority for planning, organizing
and decision making are centralized in the hands
of the leader, and all communications and
interactions focus on or through him.

6. Paternalistic Style
• The way a Paternalistic leader works is by
acting as a father figure by care of their
subordinates as a parent.
• In this style the leader supplies
complete concern for his
followers or workers, in return
he receives the complete trust
and the loyalty of his people.

7. Democratic Style
Decision-making is decentralized, shared by
team members via participative processes
and a great interactions.

8. Laissez-faire Style
• The laissez-faire Style is where all rights
and power to make decisions is fully given to
the worker.
This is an effective style to use when:
• Followers are highly skilled and experienced.
• Followers have pride in their work and the
drive to do it successfully on their own.

9. Transactional Style
• Transactional leaders focus their leadership
on motivating followers through a system of
rewards and punishments.
• Transactional leadership is based on:
1. Rewards.
2.Sanctions.

10. Presented by Ali Sanad
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