Instructions
Look at each statement and decide which leadership style it relates to and drag it to the appropriate column in the table. When all of the statements have been placed click the check button to see how many you have right.
If you haven’t placed them all correctly you can move the statements into different columns before checking your answer again or press the reset button to start again.
Autocratic
Paternalistic
Democratic
Laissez-faire
Bureaucratic
- No discussion on decision making
- Good in times of change/crisis
- No employee involvement
- Workers dependent on the leader
- Workers often dissatisfied with the leader
- High levels of supervision
- Leaders make all the decisions
- Persuades workers to follow the decisions
- The leader is concerned with worker welfare
- Workers are consulted on decision making
- Leaders involve the workers in all aspects of the work
- Encourages participation
- Leaders need good communication skills
- Workers are motivated
- Promotes creativity
- Minimal input from the leader
- Workers left alone to get on with their jobs
- Opportunity for workers to demonstrate their capabilities
- Can lead to low productivity
- Leaders focus on the specialisation of jobs
- Normally operate in hierarchical structures
- Workers allowed some limited freedom to make decisions within limits
- Clearly defined job roles
- Limits the opportunity to innovate
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