Ladership & Management

Summary

A compamy could not hang on to the business without a proper manager and/or leader, this person or people have the special task of running a successful company or just to perform a specific task; but according to the role played that person is either a manager (someone who takes care of the general aspects of the process or task that is being made) or a leader (the one who directs the change and proposes different approaches to perform the needed task). The manager and the leader must complement each other in order for the company to be effective through the leadership to produce a useful change, and effective to manage the controls complexity.

There are some theories that explain the approaches used by both managers and leaders to act within the organization. An authoritarian leader is the one who holds total control and power over the whole process and gives all the orders expecting that his workers obey at all cost. A consultative leader is the one who involves every individual of the organization involved in the performing of the task and gets their ideas and points of view. A democratic leader is the one who has a participative style taking into account the views of all his workers and shares both the decision making and the problem solving responsibilities. Finally the leader who has a –Laissez Faire- style, which is a style where the manager provides little direction and gives the employees as much freedom as possible.

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Topic Question

Do you (or would you want to) work in an autocratic, democratic, or consultative work environment? What might be the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Personally I’d rather working on a democratic work environment, because of the fact that the decision making process is more efficient but also takes into account most, if not all, of the proposals and suggestions everybody on the group has to make, and the ultimate decision is made democratically by all of the individuals that conform the group. An autocratic work environment has the advantage that the decision making process is quicker but has the disadvantage of having mistakes due to the lack of group contentment.