At the time of taking over the company using the autocratic leadership style was the right choice due to the crisis the company was in. Now that the company was sustained and ready to create new ideas to create revenue, the chief executive had to adopt a new leadership style. At this point and time of his career, he felt that taking a new direction from using the autocratic leadership style to adopting the participative leadership style. The participative leadership style is discussed in chapter seven in the text book, Supervision Managing for Results tenth edition, by John W. Newstrom and is defined as the act of fully involving employees in decision making processes so that their ideas are used and they are fully committed to the solution’s success. This was a tough change of pace for the chief executive with having to let go of having hands on everything and empower his people to make wise management
At the time of taking over the company using the autocratic leadership style was the right choice due to the crisis the company was in. Now that the company was sustained and ready to create new ideas to create revenue, the chief executive had to adopt a new leadership style. At this point and time of his career, he felt that taking a new direction from using the autocratic leadership style to adopting the participative leadership style. The participative leadership style is discussed in chapter seven in the text book, Supervision Managing for Results tenth edition, by John W. Newstrom and is defined as the act of fully involving employees in decision making processes so that their ideas are used and they are fully committed to the solution’s success. This was a tough change of pace for the chief executive with having to let go of having hands on everything and empower his people to make wise management