An authoritarian system of government is one where the leader makesall the decisions without consulting the people. This can be a veryefficient style of government, but people… have no input. (MORE)
Authoritarian is more of a dictatorial type of leadership. Power isbestowed on one person who controls all the polices and decisionswith very little input from the subjects be…ing led. (MORE)
This distinction is frequently use in management and leadership. Authoritarian as a prevalent style of leader behaviour. Those researchers that parse the style a bit further… add paternal style. Through misuse of language, some researchers have substituted autocratic when referring to authoritarian leadership style. An autocracy is a form of control, management, and leadership in which the power is held by a single, frequently self-appointed, ruler, usually behaving as a dictator, ruling with unlimited authority, and one who has undisputed influence or power. The term autocrat is derived from the Greek autokratôr, one rulingby one's self alone. From the followers' points of view, authoritarianism is of, relating to, or favouring blind submission to authority, or of, relating to, or favouring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not legally or in practice responsible to followers. Such behaviour is called granted authority as a follower response by Fikret-PaÅa, a Turkish leadership researcher. (MORE)