AQA Business
,
, Definition Advantages Disadvantages
Autocratic individual control over ● Allows for quick ● Discourages group input
all decisions and little decision-making ● Hurts morale and leads to
especially in stress- resentment
input from group
filled situations ● Ignores or impairs
members. Autocratic ● Offers a clear chain of creative solutions and
leaders typically make command or oversight expertise from
choices based on their ● Works well where subordinates
ideas and judgments strong, directive
and rarely accept leadership is needed
advice from followers.
Autocratic leadership
involves absolute,
authoritarian control
over a group.