LEADERSHIP STYLES

Leadership Styles:  By Churchill Best Odianosen.
Leadership is the human factor that binds a group of people together. Because of the importance of leadership, discussion of the topic cannot be exhausted. There two types of leadership styles; 

a) the job-centred leadership and
b) the employees centred leadership.
a) Job-Centred leadership: In this style of leadership, the leader simply structures the job of his subordinates and ensures that they perform the assigned tasks, in the prescribed form and format. In a way this leadership style pays little or no attention to the fact that workers are human beings and should be treated as such.

This leadership style tend to be pained by any expenses incurred for the welfare of the worker. It focuses mainly on the profit potential of the organization rather than on the wellbeing of the worker through whom the profit potential are achievable.
b) Employees-centred leadership: In this style of leadership, the entrepreneur pays more attention to the human aspects of management, the aim is to build a high performance team for the all round wellbeing of the organization. In this style of leadership, the entrepreneur strives to motivate the workforce as far as possible in order to ensure that all the requirements to make the work environment conducive are installed.
The effect of this leadership style can go a very long way to impact on the profit potential of the business as a whole, why because a motivated worker will virtually be driven to:
- work very hard,
- want to sustain the pace of hard work
- self-directed,
- want to achieve more.
Motivating workers do not just come on its own, rather the entrepreneur must have a well rounded understanding of what actually motivates people; that is "motivators"
What are motivators?
Motivators are those factors which produces certain influential tendencies to cause an individual to alter an original process of action or performance due to certain beneficial psychological outcomes. These will include but not limited to:
- job enrichment,
- good pay
- recognition, good and prestigious job title,
- participation in decision making,
- performance awards and bonuses.
The entrepreneur must understand the importance and the place of motivators in designing the personnel policies of his organization if he must succeed in this chosen style of leadership.
To be continued...