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Factors Influencing Leadership Styles

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Several factors can directly and indirectly influence and affect choice of leadership styles in workplaces, bearing in mind that a leader’s responsibilities include but are not limited to: organising, evaluating, motivating, coaching, co-ordinating, communicating, building trust, continuously improving the team, planning, monitoring, empowering (Pet&r 2017 class notes), different factors will influence leadership styles at different times.

Situational Leadership, is a type of leadership style which includes directing, coaching, supporting and delegating. Also, autocratic leadership, democratic leadership, strategic leadership, transformational leadership, transactional leadership, laissez-faire leadership, charismatic leadership, visionary …show more content…

This leadership style is known as the ‘hands off’ management approach, because the manager usually provides little or no directing and allows the employees go about their tasks with little supervision and minimal or no interference. This is usually practised by leaders whose subordinates have attained a high level of self-sufficiency and specialist status. Usually, over time the boss will put in less and less input as the quality of subordinates’ work improves and attains specialist status.
The last leadership style I will be discussing in this section of this essay is the Democratic style of leadership. This leadership style is participatory in nature, and employees are encouraged to contribute and partake in all aspects including the preparatory and decision making stages of the project or task phase. Information is contributed by all members of the team and freely disseminated with all team members being involved and contributing their quota for the successful execution of projects and …show more content…

Different leadership styles have their positive and negative effects. Below are how different leadership styles can have positive and negative effects on individuals and groups.
Laissez-faire leadership style can have positive effects on individuals that are specialists at their given jobs. This is particularly useful when the leader (Manager) is not a specialist in the said field. At my place of work, it is quite common to have managers that are not specialists in the departments that they manage. This style of leadership is particularly useful and has a positive effect on individuals who see management as being about managing people and resources and not necessarily about managing tasks. Highly motivated Individuals in specialist functions like information technology, medicine and consultancy usually enjoy these style of leadership from their

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