Leadership Styles and Models Management
Leadership style is the way a leader approaches people by enhancing motivation and providing direction. As observed in employees, it involves a complete series of both implicit and explicit actions done by their leader. In 1939, Kurt Lewin was the first to lead a few researchers to discover the various styles of leadership. They are the style of autocracy, style of democracy, pacesetting style, affiliative style, coaching style, style of laissez-faire, and authoritative style.
Power in leadership refers to various things to each person. Some people see power as corrupt while others tend to think the more powerful one is, the more successful the person becomes. Various types of powers can affect the leadership qualities and success in a role of leadership (Kopia, 2016). Power is based on the methods that managers utilize to effectively influence their employees.
Attaining of necessary power for enhancing leadership styles can be done through first determining the concepts of authority and democratic styles when analyzing the basis of power. The concept of authority is through the use of an engaging force and motivating followers.
The concept of democratic style and power can be applied when asking the citizens of a country to vote for a particular candidate during the campaigns. The candidate must possess a will to engage in discussions with the citizens and offering motivational plans, for example, setting promises of increasing employment to the youths so that people can elect a candidate to the office. However, the candidate must have the necessary resources to motivate the followers to be loyal at that moment, for instance, giving out cash to needy the citizens.
The applying of the concept help in capturing attention and enticing many followers to offer enough votes to elect a candidate to the office thereby having the chance to solve various problems affecting the society. This concept fits most in this situation since it is not easy to win the trust of many people at the same time. The democratic style is through engaging the sharing of plans with the people and offering many options for people’s opinions consideration. Motivating of the followers must be done for success.
Democratic style and authoritative styles can work effectively in campaigns since the authoritative leadership style symbolize confident leaders who can set expectations while along the way engage and motivate the followers (Yahaya et al., 2016). Authoritative leaders take their time in explaining their thoughts, unlike the autocratic leaders. They allow citizens to give their opinions on how to attain common targets.
The reward power and democratic leadership style can work effectively since reward power dwells on the ability to give some kind of rewards such as monetary compensation. Reward power can be used as a strong motivator when used flexibly. However, people can rigidly rely on rewards which can back-fire the repercussions. Giving citizens monetary rewards can create a high level of loyalty to the followers especially in campaign periods (Chadwick & Stromer-Galley, 2016). Effectiveness can be observed in intangible rewards, examples of these rewards are a rise in status, positive reply, and praise. The advantage of intangible rewards is that they can be as effective as rewards that are tangible and cost almost nothing. Referent power can also work effectively with a democratic leadership style because referent power dwells majorly on trust. A leader can win the followers’ trust hence creating strong loyal coherence.
References
Chadwick, A., & Stromer-Galley, J. (2016). Digital media, power, and democracy in parties and election campaigns: Party decline or party renewal?.
Kopia, J. (2016, April). Study on integration and leadership styles of Management Systems based on a high-level structure. In International Conference on Management, Leadership & Governance (p. 431). Academic Conferences International Limited.
Yahaya, Rusliza, and Fawzy Ebrahim. “Leadership styles and organizational commitment: A literature review.” Journal of Management Development (2016).