Autocratic and Participative Leadership Today’s leaders face many obstacles as they lead their organizations. Leaders are faced with allocating work fairly among staff while accomplishing business goals with fewer resources. Therefore, problem solving and conflict resolution must be addressed. The type of leadership style used to address these issues can either be an autocratic style, where problems are addressed with quick and definitive resolution prohibiting subordinates from providing input. Alternatively, participative leaders approach problem solving by involving the entire team for collaboration (Lindblad, 2015). Both of these leadership styles have an appropriate place within an organization depending on the situation. Therefore,
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She is the chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (Advise America, 2015). Stewart’s leadership style shows no passion or compassion for her staff (Advise America, 2015). She does not allow her staff to make any direct decisions without her final approval. She is very detailed orientated assuring that everything meets her standards. She is very hands on and knows every aspect of her organization, therefore, allowing her to take full credit for the success of the organization (Advise America, 2015). In 2004, Stewart found herself in the middle of several legal issues surrounding security fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and making false statements. She served a five-month prison sentence and was fined $30,000 (Biography.com, 2015). Despite these unfortunate events, she continued to look to the future and the success of expanding her business (Weaver, 2007). Martha Stewart’s leadership qualities of pursue your purpose, practice solid values, lead with your heart, establish relationships, and demonstrate self-discipline allowed her to bounce back as a leader of a Fortune 500 business (Weaver, …show more content…
The approach is top down management, therefore, telling staff exactly what they must do. This can lead to increased absenteeism and high turnover (Lindblad, 2015). In addition, this leadership style invites the potential abuse of power, can discourage team creativity, and can discourage open communication between employees and leaders (Gill, 2014). However, the pros of having an autocratic leader can be effective when decisions need to be made quickly, and keeping individuals focused on meeting deadlines. Furthermore, autocratic leaders can provide structure to teams during stressful times (Gill, 2014). The autocratic leader is most effective during this time by making critical decisions and implementing processes to accomplish the goals (Money-Zine,
She is the chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (Advise America, 2015). Stewart’s leadership style shows no passion or compassion for her staff (Advise America, 2015). She does not allow her staff to make any direct decisions without her final approval. She is very detailed orientated assuring that everything meets her standards. She is very hands on and knows every aspect of her organization, therefore, allowing her to take full credit for the success of the organization (Advise America, 2015). In 2004, Stewart found herself in the middle of several legal issues surrounding security fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy, and making false statements. She served a five-month prison sentence and was fined $30,000 (Biography.com, 2015). Despite these unfortunate events, she continued to look to the future and the success of expanding her business (Weaver, 2007). Martha Stewart’s leadership qualities of pursue your purpose, practice solid values, lead with your heart, establish relationships, and demonstrate self-discipline allowed her to bounce back as a leader of a Fortune 500 business (Weaver, …show more content…
The approach is top down management, therefore, telling staff exactly what they must do. This can lead to increased absenteeism and high turnover (Lindblad, 2015). In addition, this leadership style invites the potential abuse of power, can discourage team creativity, and can discourage open communication between employees and leaders (Gill, 2014). However, the pros of having an autocratic leader can be effective when decisions need to be made quickly, and keeping individuals focused on meeting deadlines. Furthermore, autocratic leaders can provide structure to teams during stressful times (Gill, 2014). The autocratic leader is most effective during this time by making critical decisions and implementing processes to accomplish the goals (Money-Zine,