Style:

Autocratic

Laissez-faire

Democratic

Bureaucratic

Monarchy

Communism

Characteristics:
-Gives orders as to
what others should
do
-Lack of
experience
involving teamwork
-Limits evaluation
on ideas and
particular ways of
doing things
-Involves group
members in
planning and
carrying out
activities
-Asks, rather than
tells
-Promotes a sense
of teamwork
-Gives little or no
direction to
group/individuals
-Opinion is offered
only when
requested
-A person does not
seem to be in
charge
-Applies specific
rules for decisionmaking
-Runs organization
or, government
-Goes By the
book

When effective:
-Limits time
-Lack of particular
skillsets and ideas
-Very limited
overall
understanding of
others

-Time is available
-Group is
motivated and/or a
sense of team
exists
-Members of the
group have some
degree of
skill/knowledge
-High degree of
skill and motivation
-A sense of team
exists
-Routine is familiar
to participants

-Goal oriented
-Manages
employees who
complete their
specific routine
tasks
-Management of
particular
situations
-Absolute power
-Simple process
over the state
for making laws
-Inherited by a king -A viable and
or queen
tough army
-Elected
representatives

-Every individual
has a role/job

When ineffective:
-Developing a strong
sense of team is the
goal
-Members have some
degree of
skill/knowledge
-Group wants an
element of
spontaneity in their
work
-Group is
unmotivated
-Members have little
skill or knowledge
-High degree of
conflict present

-Low sense of
team/interdependenc
e
-Members have low
degree of
skill/knowledge
-Group expects to be
told what to do
-Teams lean towards
creativity, flexibility, or
innovation
-Small opportunity to
analyze new
solutions and
theories
-If there is a bad
leader, the nation
could potentially fall
-There are much
higher chances of
social rebellion
-Lacks individual
freedom

-Resources are
efficiently
distributed

-Economic system
is internally stable

-People often treated

as machines