My score for this style was thirty points and falls within seven points of my participative leadership style, therefore, I am likely to use both the participative and delegative styles equally. The delegative style of leadership is best used when followers are ready to complete a task and are fully capable of taking full responsibility for completing the task. Unlike the participative style, the delegative style leaves the group to make the decisions and provides little or no guidance to the group. This style is best used when the individuals of the group are highly qualified leaders. The delegative style is not recommend to use where the employees are new because it can cause a decline in self confidence to those individuals because they may not be fully capable of successfully completing a task. In order for this type of style to be effective, the leader must really know their employees by being able to describe their staff interests and their staffs’ individual strengths and weaknesses. When reviewing the items that are representative of the delegative style, I only scored a 5 on one item which was number 27. Item 27 said, “Staff members should establish their own goals and objectives.” I believe that this is vital for staff members to complete. When individuals make their own goals they are more willing to work on those goals then if they were delegated the goal and objective. Another item
My score for this style was thirty points and falls within seven points of my participative leadership style, therefore, I am likely to use both the participative and delegative styles equally. The delegative style of leadership is best used when followers are ready to complete a task and are fully capable of taking full responsibility for completing the task. Unlike the participative style, the delegative style leaves the group to make the decisions and provides little or no guidance to the group. This style is best used when the individuals of the group are highly qualified leaders. The delegative style is not recommend to use where the employees are new because it can cause a decline in self confidence to those individuals because they may not be fully capable of successfully completing a task. In order for this type of style to be effective, the leader must really know their employees by being able to describe their staff interests and their staffs’ individual strengths and weaknesses. When reviewing the items that are representative of the delegative style, I only scored a 5 on one item which was number 27. Item 27 said, “Staff members should establish their own goals and objectives.” I believe that this is vital for staff members to complete. When individuals make their own goals they are more willing to work on those goals then if they were delegated the goal and objective. Another item