Leadership Program Democratic vs. Autocratic Leader Leadership Styles BSC 407 – Effective Organization Owen Fernandes Individual Paper 1 – 20th October 2011
Leadership Styles 1 Introduction In this paper, I will present two leadership styles – democratic and autocratic. I will apply them on two situations – one regarding stress reduction and one regarding production increase. The company I’ve chosen for this paper is called MeMoTech (Measurement and Monitoring Technology). In order to describe the difference between the two styles in the two different situations I will write 4 e-mails to the employees of the company where I will present the different way of communication and different attitude that follow from the different natures of these styles. MeMoTech is participating in a special project over the next week. It is going to have its own stand in an international technological fair (ITF) in another town where it is going to present its products. MeMoTech participates in this fair every year. There is a group of people who is taking part in this project (leader of the project, technical staff from all the departments…). These people represent the company. The leader of the group is going to talk to the team. Based on the previous years’ experience and current situation in the company he is about to send an e-mail to the group. In the first situation, he is trying to reduce stress in the group that arises from a number of reasons. He knows that some people in the group perceive this project as a waste of time because they will have to be at the fair instead of being in their offices – it makes them feel more stressed as they worry they are going to be behind their schedule on their regular work. Other people don’t get on well with some other people within the group and now they will be forced to cooperate. In fact, majority of the group is dissatisfied with the leader himself, but he doesn’t know that. They feel he is not doing his job well what gives the rest…