leadership and teamwork 1

Leadership and Teamwork 1

Introduction

In my assignment I will be evaluating the types of leadership in the public
services to find out why they're used and how they're suitable and not suitable
for the public services. I will also be discussing previous leaders and how
important their choice of style of leadership was for the tasks that they had to
complete. There will be eight different styles that I will be discussing to provide
a short training booklet.

, Task 1

Authoritarian - Authoritarian style of leadership is a style of leadership where
the leader will have full control over all decisions and their will be little input
from team members. Some of the primary characteristics are as followed;
Allow little input from team members, requires leaders to make almost all
decisions, provides leaders with ability to dictate work methods and process,
leaves group feeling like there not trusted, creates highly structured and very
rigid environments, discourages creativity and establishes rules and tends to
be clearly outlined and communicated. Some befits of the authoritarian style of
leadership are; quick decision making in stress filled situations, offers a clear
chain of command or oversight and works well when there’s strong dictatorship
needed. However the drawbacks are labelled as; discourages group input,
decreases moral, leads to resentment and ignores creative solutions and
expertise from subordinates. Authorisation leadership, will usually be used
when a task is urgent and needs completing quickly as it allows for little time
and planning. Aswell as that, it will also be used when there’s little margin for
error and you’re in a dangerous situation as rigid rules keep harm out of
peoples way. From the team members view, they will be set to strict deadlines
and the team will be motivated to work under strict commands. Compared to
Laissez fair, this style of leadership is very leadership based and hardly
includes the team members, their just told what to do and when by which is
the complete opposite to laissez-faire. With this style of leadership I think it's
very useful in the public services as they are used to having short time periods
so having a quick answer, a clear job role and an organised chain of command
will ensure that it can be done at its best.

As mentioned above, the next style of leadership is laissez-faire. Laissez
faire, also known as delegative, is a type of leadership where the leader is
very hands off and allow the subordinates to make decisions. The characters of
Laissez faire leadership are as followed; hands off approach, leaders provide all
rationing and support, decisions are left to subordinates, comfortable with
mistakes and accountability falls on the leader. Some advantages of this style
of leadership are; encourages personal growth because leaders are so hands
off that subordinates have chance to be hands on, it encourages innovation by
the freedom that is given to subordinates and it allows for faster decision
making as there inso micromanagement and they have the autonomy to make
their own decisions without waiting weeks for approval. However for this to
happen they are very dependent on what the team are like as they will have to
be organised, fully motivated, highly skilled, capable of working on their own
and experienced. On the other hand, some disadvantages are; lack of role
clarity as there are no leaders that can delegate rolls which will make people
unsure on what their role is, poor involvement in the group by leaders causing
lack of cohesiveness in group, low accountability as leaders can take advantage
and blame team members when requirements are not met and passivity
causes lack of motivation as leaders don’t motivate. Laissez faire is commonly
used when working in a creative field where people are highly motivated,
skilled, creative and dedicated to their work. Personally, I don’t like this style of
leadership as I feel theres no use to it in the public services as there’s less