Autocratic leadership

(noun)

All decision-making powers are centralized in the leader, as with dictators.

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Examples of Autocratic leadership in the following topics:

  • Choosing Leaders

    • Dictators are an example of autocratic leadership style, where all decision-making powers are centralized in the leader
    • Under the autocratic leadership style, all decision-making powers are centralized in the leader, as with dictators.
    • In the laissez-faire leadership style, a person may be in a leadership position without providing leadership, leaving the group to fend for itself.
    • Benito Mussolini, a fascist dictator who ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943, is an example of autocratic leadership, where all decision-making powers were centralized on him.
    • Evaluate the seven types of leadership (functional, autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire, expressive, authoritarian, and toxic) arguing which one is best

  • Leadership Styles

    • This leadership style can help retain employees for the long term.
    • Under the autocratic leadership style, decision-making power is centralized in the leader.
    • The autocratic management is effective for quick decision making but is generally not successful in fostering employee engagement or maintaining worker satisfaction.
    • Bass used Burns's ideas to develop his own theory of transformational leadership.
    • Different situations call for particular leadership styles.

  • Styles of Leadership

    • A leadership style is the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people.
    • An authoritarian or autocratic leader keeps strict, close control over followers by closely regulating the policies and procedures given to followers.
    • However, the democratic style of leadership still requires guidance and control by a specific leader.
    • The laissez-faire leadership style was first described by Lewin, Lippitt, and White in 1938, along with the autocratic leadership and the democratic leadership styles.
    • Narcissistic leadership is a common form of leadership.

  • Fulfilling the Leading Function

    • Management is often associated with the former and leadership with the latter.
    • In contrast to individual leadership, some organizations have adopted group leadership.
    • Others may see the traditional leadership of a boss as costing too much in team performance.
    • Different situations call for different leadership styles.
    • In an emergency, when there is little time to reach an agreement and where a designated authority has significantly more experience or expertise than the rest of the team, an autocratic leadership style may be most effective.

  • Non-Democratic Governments: Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, and Dictatorship

    • Authoritarianism is marked by "indefinite political tenure" of an autocratic state or a ruling-party state.
    • A dictatorship is defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual: a dictator.
    • In contemporary usage, dictatorship refers to an autocratic form of absolute rule by leadership unrestricted by law, constitutions, or other social and political factors within the state.

  • The GLOBE Project

    • Under the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Research Project, an international group of social scientists and management scholars studied cross-cultural leadership.
    • Known as the six GLOBE dimensions of culturally endorsed implicit leadership, these leadership dimensions include:
    • Charismatic or value-based: Characterized by integrity and decisiveness; performance-oriented by appearing visionary, inspirational, and self-sacrificing; can also be toxic and allow for autocratic commanding.
    • Participative: Characterized by non-autocratic behavior that encourages involvement and engagement and that is supportive of those who are being led.
    • Logo for the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Project.

  • Leadership and Decision Making: The Vroom-Yetton-Jago Model

    • The Vroom-Yetton-Jago model is a leadership theory of how to make group decisions.
    • AI – Autocratic Type 1: Decisions are made completely by the leader.
    • AII – Autocratic Type 2: The decision is still made by the leader alone, but the leader collects information from the followers.
    • The Vroom-Yetton-Jago model utilizes decision trees to determine the best leadership style for a given situation.

  • Line Structure

    • ., "autocratic", "democratic" or an intermediate style).
    • Explain the different types of leadership types and how an organizational chart is used

  • A Blended Approach to Leadership

    • The full-range leadership theory blends the features of transactional and transformational leadership into one comprehensive approach.
    • The full-range theory of leadership seeks to blend the best aspects of transactional and transformational leadership into one comprehensive approach.
    • Transactional leadership focuses on exchanges between leaders and followers.
    • Management researcher Bernard Bass developed the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), consisting of 36 items that reflect the leadership aspects associated with both approaches.
    • Assess the intrinsic value of blending transactional leadership behaviors with transformational leadership behaviors

  • The Knights of Labor and the "Conditions Essential to Liberty"

    • Membership declined with the problems of an autocratic structure, mismanagement, and unsuccessful strikes.
    • The top leadership did not believe that strikes were an effective way to up the status of the working people, and failed to develop the infrastructure that was necessary to organize and coordinate the hundreds of strikes, walkouts, and job actions spontaneously erupting among the membership.