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Sample Leadership Style
Survey
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Leadership Style Descriptions
 Dictatorial
Your leadership style is one of autocratic authority
characterized by the tendency to be totally dictatorial in dealing with people
and other companies in order to survive. It is you who is ultimately responsible for
decisions in your area of delegation. It is necessary for you to be loyal
to superiors and follow orders. You expect your subordinates to be
loyal to you at all times. An area where this leadership style is used
is in the military or in emergency services like police and fire departments.
Growth from this style requires you gain competence in
your
area of expertise and that there is plenty of structure and strong lines of
accountability at every level of command in the corporation.
Decisions are made based on survival needs and situational demands, not
your emotions, although loyalty is the most important. Skills of survival are
the most in demand.
Benevolent
Your leadership style is characterized by the tendency to
be maternal or paternal in dealing with people and other companies. You
practice careful listing, but it is you who is ultimately
responsible for decisions in your area of delegation. You are loyal to superiors and follows the rules they set down.
Your growth from this style requires competence in your
area of expertise and strength in administrative ability. Know how to
affirm and value persons is important. Care should be taken to make
decisions based on fairness and the demands of the situation. Your style
of leadership avoid compromising values or making decisions based on belonging
needs or personal preference, such as hiring a friend rather then the best
person for the job.
Organizationally your management style is from a
hierarchy of authority. It is essential to see that each line of
management is well supervised and has a clear role description based on
objective criteria rather than personal preference.
- Manager
Your style is related to the organizational person.
Your organizational survival depends on administrative follow-through
and ability to manage people efficiently and effectively in the whole
environment. You are learning new interpersonal skills, which
elicit cooperation rather than isolation. You listen to others
and affirm them. You have a tendency to be
over-competitive as well as to alienate yourself from persons who are not
loyal to the organization.
Organizationally your management skills are related to a
bureaucratic and hierarchical view of the system. It is important you to
realize that a positive experience of a bureaucratic system is necessary to
gain these skills. Skills in management science, financial management,
electronic communications, personnel evaluation, and quality management are
going to be helpful.
- Enabling
Your leadership style should be regarded as an
interim style, for although you do exert influence, it is minimal, do to the
reluctance for you to take precise action. You may be caught between
adherence to what the organization demands and a new view of your own
human dignity. To develop leadership capabilities your need to integrate
the skills in the management and administrative sciences with your personal
dimensions of group dynamics and human relations. The consequence of
this integration can lead to a more dignified and life-giving view of
corporate and or organizational culture.
Your organizational style tends to be laissez-fair, an
interim style that reacts against hierarchy and structure and favors
participative management styles. The hierarchical structures need to
remain and the more participative approaches added and integrated slowly using
team-building techniques and methods stressing leadership formation rather
than personnel replacement.
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 Collaborator
Your style is democratic, but often very
independent. It is a point in your life when your value focus is clearer as
imagination and systems skills are releasing new energy in you. The central
difficulty for your is time management, resulting in the possibility
of stress. Critical growth factors for you are: time management, support groups
at work and in more leisure-oriented environments, and clarity about value
focus for the present and future.
The organizational style is matrix management, or
intergroup participative management structures that emphasize human and
informational development. The more participative approaches add and
integrate team-building techniques and methods that stress leadership
formation, rather than personnel replacement. Emphasis is on internal
information gathering as a way to assess the improve the organizational
structure to meet customer needs. This becomes a means of future
planning which provides improved client service and quality management.
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 Servant- Your leadership style involves shared leadership by an
all-peer team that manages a system on the basis of pre-chosen principles and
values clusters. It is important that you have a global perspective and
an the ability to see how the parts of your organization relate to an
individual person or component in terms of values. Franklin
Roosevelt is an example of the servant leadership style.
It is assumed you have a healthy work/leisure balance already
in place and you have peer support groups at the intimate, professional, and work
levels. You lead with a team on the basis of value-related
goals, objectives and norms. Therefore, you need skills for developing
such norms at a total system level. Emphasis in on internal
information gathering as a way to assess and improve the organizational
structure that meet customer needs. This becomes a means of future
planning which provides improved client service and quality management.
Negative possibilities are your misuse of power and
leadership by values that are detrimental to the individual in the
organization and
to society. Critical to you is clarity about
values, since they can enable you to transcend organizational pressures at
a personal level and place these in a global and prophetic perspective.
 Visionary- You style involves interdependent
leadership by a peer team that manages a system on the basis of pre-chosen
principles and value clusters. This requires you have a global perspective and an ability to see
how the organization relates to other organizations globally. Your skills
assume a healthy work/leisure balance already in place and your have peer support
groups at international, intimate, professional, and work levels.
Your stance as a leader it that of a wise and prophetic
enabler, who leads with a team on the basis of value-related goals,
objectives, and norms. You need skills to develop such norms
at an inter-system level. Good physical and emotional health is also
required. The most negative possibilities is that you will misuse
power and govern by values that are detrimental to individuals working in
the organization and in society at large. Critical to you is clarity about particular values as they are translated into
international organizational policy, in ways that can change policies and
norms. The organization's values can be creatively critiqued at every
level of an institution, facilitating a holistic, integrated prospective.
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