likert’s leadership styles

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