My last article had a little negative odour, Leadership is not a popularity contest. Again my first article says
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ou can manage money, things, animals but you can not manage a person.
True leader maintains balanced combination of interactions to preserve joyful atmosphere within the organisation.
There are many Management Styles Which govern how manager interact within the organisation.
1.Autocratic : Management makes decision and tells staff
2.Persuasive :Management makes decision and invites questions
3. Consultative :Management presents problem and asks for suggestions
4.Participative :Management presents problem and works with staff to solve.
Developing a management style should be based on many factors
Manager's personality and values,
Staff personality and values,
Tasks and goals
Environmental constraints
According to my observations most of the successful managers have implemented Persuasive Management
Lets see what it leads to
A persuasive styled manager shares some characteristics with that of an autocratic manager. The most important aspect of a persuasive manager is that they maintain control over the entire decision making process. The most prominent difference here is that the persuasive manager will spend more time working with their subordinates in order to try to convince them of the benefits of the decision that have been made. A persuasive manager is more aware of their employees, but it wouldn't be correct to say that the persuasive style of management is more inclusive of employees.
Just as there are occasions where the use of an autocratic style of management would be appropriate, there are also instances where a company will benefit from a persuasive style of management. An example of this being, if a task that needs to be completed but it is slightly complicated it may be necessary to rely upon input from an expert. In such a situation as this, the expert may take to time to explain to others why events are happening in the order in which they will occur, but ultimately the way in which things are done will be that person's responsibility. In those circumstances, they are highly unlikely to delegate any part of the decision making process to those who are lower down in the hierarchy.
Advantages to a persuasive style of management:
1. Decisions are able to be made quickly. This is also true with the autocratic style of management, persuasive managers are able to make decisions very quickly because they don't use a consultation process with employees.
2. The employees will have a clear understanding of what's likely to happen and what their role will be. As all of the decisions are made centrally and the communication is entirely top-down, employees will be able to perform their tasks in an efficient manner.
3. Difficult or tedious situations ae able to be managed effectively. Just as an autocratic manager will be able to navigate through challenging situations, a persuasive manager will be in a position which allows them to steer an organization towards a challenging outcome as well.
Disadvantages to a persuasive style of management:
1. There may not be enough or even an entire lack of support from employees for management. Seeing as how the employees will have no input into the decision making process. They also may not trust the decisions that are made.
2. A system that has no input from employees minimises access to one of the most valuable resources that a business has; the ideas of the people who are working on the "front line". As a result, employees will show no initiative, which can reduce productivity.
3. One-way communication models are unlikely to be effective when compared to Two-way communication.
My style of management is Asian paternalistic
which can be called as combination of managements according to situations
Like consultative and easily confused with autocratic and dictatorial; however, decisions take into account the best interests of the employees as well as the business, often more so than interests of the individual manager. Communication is downward. Feedback and questioning authority are absent as respect to superiors and group harmony are central characteristics within the culture. This style demands loyalty from the employees, often more than to societies' rules in general. Staff turnover is discouraged and rare. Worker motivation is the status quo with East Asians often having the world's highest numbers of hours worked per week, due to a sense of family duty with the manager being the father, and staff being obedient children, all striving for harmony, and other related Confucian characteristics. Most aspects of work are done with a highly collectivist orientation. It shares disadvantages with an autocratic style, such as employees becoming dependent on the leader, and related issues with seniority based systems.
An Asian Paternalistic style means that the manager makes decisions from a solid understanding of what is desired and best by both consumers and staff. Managers must appear confident, with all answers, and promote growth with harmony, often even if hiding harmful or sad news is required.
