VACCINE GROUP

I, For the leadership styles, your group is required to analyze the advantages,
disadvantages of each style, and provide examples for each style (as many
examples as possible).

1.Advantages and Disadvantages of Autocratic leadership:

 Advantages:
1. Allows for fast decisions to be made.
2. Improves overall communication.
3. Providing employees with a sufficient level of supervision so errors are either
prevented or corrected quickly.
4. Handles crisis situations effectively.
5. Reduces employee stress.
6. It counters team inexperience.
7. Easy to Learn.
8. Clear Line of Control.
9. Good for Inexperienced or Unmotivated Workers.
 Disadvantages:
1.It often leads to micromanagement.
2.Bad for Highly Skilled and Motivated Workers.
3.Increased Work Burden.
4.It does not offer a sense of professional ownership.
5.Creates a work culture based on the leader.
6.Creates a lack of trust.
7.Creates a system of dependence.
8.Good ideas and valuable insight from employees may be overlooked or outright
ignored.
9.Without the leader, the team might become paralyzed when facing a decision and
ultimately fail to uphold the leader’s high standards.
 Examples:
Famous autocratic leaders can be found in every category: politicians, business
leaders, tech innovators and leaders in education. A few particularly famous
autocratic leaders include:
1.Martha Stewart
2.Donald Trump
3.Bill Gates
4.Honwell Raines
5.Leona Helmsley

2.Advantages and Disadvantages of participative or democratic leadership:

 Advantages:
1.This leadership style connects people to their work.
2.It works to promote the free flow of ideas.
3.This structure encourages trust and respect throughout the team.
4.Democratic leaders place more of an emphasis on values and morality.
5.Leaders who use this style are seen as being more competent.
6.It takes an open and honest mind to be a democratic leader.
7.Democratic leaders receive a more diverse set of ideas.
8.It allows teams to develop more strength.
9.This leadership style can create a robust vision for the future.
10.It increases the amount of knowledge that is available to the team.
 Disadvantages 
1.The democratic leadership style requires extra time to implement a decision.
2.This leadership style in ineffective during crisis situations.
3.This method relies on the expertise of the team to be useful.
4.The emphasis of the leadership style can take a priority.
5.Democratic leaders must often deal with rejection.
6.This leadership style can sometimes encourage workplace procrastination.
7.It is very rare for a team to reach a consensus decision.
8.There is always an element of uncertainty when using the Democratic leadership
style.
9.This leadership style does not always come with a clear definition.
10.Some leaders do not know how to correctly use this technique.
11.The democratic style encourages no one to take responsibility for a bad idea.
12.Democratic leaders must know how to request information from others.
 Examples:
Throughout U.S. history, there have been many companies and leaders who have
applied democratic/participative leadership, including:
1.George Washington
2.Mayo Clinic
3.Google
4.Abraham Lincoln
5.Amazon.com
6.Ginni Rometty
7.Twitter

3.Advantages and Disadvantages free-rein leadership:

 Advantages
1.It allows team members to maximize their own leaderships skills
2.It provides the people with the most experience to shine
3.It creates an environment of independence
4.It encourages team members to explore new ideas
5.It allows individual teams to create their own environment
6.It generates more individual satisfaction for the work being done
7.It provides the leader to be strategic with their skills
 Disadvantages
1.It downplays the role of the leader on the team
2.It reduces the cohesiveness of the group
3.It changes how accountability is assigned within the group
4.It allows leaders to avoid leadership
5.It is a leadership style which employees can abuse
6.It can be difficult to adapt to changing situations
7.It creates opportunities for employee litigation
8.It can creates silos
 Examples
1.Advertising agencies
2.Product design firms
3.Startup social media companies
4.Research and development departments
5.Venture capital investment companies
6.High-end architectural and specialized engineering firms

II, Compare the difference between manager and leader.

Leader
A leader influences his subordinate to
achieve a specified goal
A leader possesses the quality of
foresightedness
A leader sets directions
A leader facilitates it
A leader has managers
A eader uses conflicts as an asset
The leader use transformational
leadership style
Leaders promote change
A leader aims at the growth and
development of his teammates
Manager
A manager is a person who manages
the entire organisation.
A manager has the intelligence
A manager plans details
A manager takes decision
A manager has the employees
A manager avoids conflicts
The manager uses the transactional
leadership style
Managers react to the change
A manager aims at accomplishing the
results.