What are the four different leadership styles and brief them?

Autocratic or Authoritarian leadership:-

• Assigns the tasks and duties without the opinions of others
• Talks too much.
• Employees do not progress in this leadership

Democratic or Participative leadership

• Believes in the knowledge and skills of other people
• Involves other people in leadership and skill development.
• The employees feel that management care for them

The Laissez-faire or Free-rein leadership

• Pass on the responsibilities to their subordinates
• Does not care about what is going on in the team
• The team is less productive

Paternalistic leadership

• The leader expect that his role is fatherly
• The leader guides and protects his team
• Provides good working conditions to employees

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