Post on 27-Jan-2015
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LIKERT’S LEADERSHIP
STYLES
Leadership styles
can be identified through:
• how authority is used
• how a leader relates to others
• how employees minds and muscles are used
• how a leader communicates
Good Leadership:
• Establishes a climate andsystem of management
• Makes optimum use ofhuman assets and theirbehavioral aspects
EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATION
achieved:
Maximum profitability
Good labor relations
High productivity
Description
Rensis Likert identified four main styles of leadership, in particular around decision-making and the degree to which people are involved in the decision.
Rensis Likert identified four main styles of leadership, in particular around decision-making and the degree to which people are involved in the decision.
Exploitative Authoritative
BenevolentAuthoritative
Consultative Participative
Leadership Styles
Exploitative- authoritative
• Management uses fear andthreats; communication istop down with mostdecisions taken at the top;superiors and subordinatesare distant
Benevolent authoritative
Management uses rewards; , information flowing upward is restricted to what
management wants to hear and while policy decisions come from the top some prescribed decisions may be delegated to
lower levels, superiors expect subservience lower down.
Management offers rewards, occasional
punishments; big decisions come from the top while there
is some wider decision making involvement in
details and communication is downward while critical upward
communication is cautious.
Consultative
Management encourages group participation and involvement in setting high performance goals with some economic rewards; communication flows in all directions and is open and frank with decision making through group processes with each group linked to others by persons who are members of more than one group called linking pins; and subordinates and superiors are close. The result is high productivity and better industrial relations.
Participative