Disadvantages of an autocratic leadership style in an organisation?

Answer 1

Advantages include: quick decision making, social stability, better control the variables of human development, good breeding ground for personal discipline and order, economic growth and less room for corruption. Autocratic leaders typically make choices based on their own ideas and judgments and rarely accept advice from followers.

Answer 2

An autocratic leadership style can lead to low employee morale, lack of creativity and innovation, and high turnover rates. It can also create a culture of fear and stifles open communication within the organization.

Answer 3

Autocratic leadership, also known as authoritarian leadership, is a leadership style characterized by individual control over all decisions and little input from group members. Autocratic leaders typically make choices based on their own ideas and judgments and rarely accept advice from followers.

Those who over rely on the autocratic leadership style tend to experience many different types of people problems.

Talent Flees-The Mediocre Stay.One big issue with this style is how it affects morale. Autocratic leaders tend to drive people out of the organization-normally the best, brightest, most talented. These people know their worth and know they can find a job somewhere else.

Bias Toward Large Organizations.

They tend not to do so well in smaller, entrepreneurial cultures. Nor do they tend to prosper in organizational cultures that foster team work, continuous innovation or rapid response to environmental changes.

Buy-in is Limited.

These types of leaders can get compliance, meaning someone yields to the will of another. They can get certain behaviors, but cannot capture the heart or the mind. For many years, it has been known that autocratic leaders have a difficult time with getting persuasive and motivational buy-in.

Followers Become More Passive-Aggressive

One method of dealing with this type of person is to become somewhat passive-aggressive. The passive side occurs when one agrees. The aggressive side occurs when when a variety of rationalizations, delaying tactics, insincere apologies, Ego feeds, etc. are used to fend off the dominant persons orders.

The Risk of the "Zombies Revenge"

Autocratic leaders tend not to be sensitive to the feelings of others and create resentment. Metaphorically, they leave a large number of "dead bodies" along the road. These dead bodies function like Zombies, waiting for the magic moment when the autocratic leader gets in trouble so they can rise up and get their revenge.

Probably Conflicts With Young Professionals

The young still haven't gotten used to what their parents have learned to tolerate. In some cultures, Narcissism is increasing in the younger generation. And narcissists tend not to put up with the crap autocratic leaders throw at them.

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Answer 4

• More group productivity while leader watches
• Group makes quicker decisions
• Often does the task themselves as it is quicker
• Pushes the group.

Answer 5

There are very few advantages of an autocratic government. The only advantage would the speed of making decisions as there are no consultations involved.

Answer 6

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what are the advantages pf an autocratic leader?