Democratic and Autocratic Leadership

The autocratic style of leadership has been linked to the so-called scientific management methods envisioned by Frederick Taylor, who in the early part of the 20th century was influential in devising a strategy of workplace behavior meant to eliminate uncertainty and chaos in the workplace. The problem was that managers tended to leave employees out of the policy-implementation equation. Supposedly, scientific management would eliminate the adversary relationship between labor and management. Instead, "science, the impartial arbiter, would decide" (Kanigel, 1996, p. 45). Yet "science" inevitably meant top-down, hierarchical management practices: "Taylor's experts and engineers did the thinking, while you were consigned to mindless doing" (Kanigel, 1996, p. 51).

Laissez-faire leadership, as the term implies, fully empowers the group members. The actual leader recedes, but the group is responsible for its decisions. One troubl

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