Management styles

@Achinta Sarmah
 Autocratic Management Style
 Centralized and top-down decision-making

Advantages Disadvantages
Quick decision making • Veer to micromanagement
• Team members are less encouraged to offer suggestions
• Team members feel creatively stifled

 Best for
 When decisions need to be made quickly and there is little room for error.
 Crisis situations
 Persuasive Management Style
(Autocratic)
 Puts decision-making totally in the hands of managers but encourages managers to
share the logic and rationale behind their decisions.

Advantages Disadvantages
• Educate junior-level team members about • Team members feel creatively stifled
what goes into managerial decisions. • Team members may feel like their
• It builds trust between the team and the feedback isn’t heard since communication
manager is still one-sided

 Best for
 Employees are inexperienced
 Paternalistic Management Style
(Autocratic)
 While communication is still one-sided, team members are heard and decisions are made with their
wants in mind.

Advantages Disadvantages
• Team member well-being is • Loyalty to leadership is imperative for this style to be
prioritized. effective. If the team doesn’t trust management, they’ll
be less motivated to produce strong results.

 Best for
 Organizations with strong company culture.
 Democratic Management Style

 Collaborative decision making

Advantages Disadvantages
• Team members have the context they need to • takes more time than the others in
succeed. decision-making
• Teams are creative
• Promotes high engagement and buy-in.
• Team members are encouraged to tap into
their full potential at work.

 Best for
 Teams that are constantly looking to change and improve their processes.
 Consultative Management Style
(Democratic)
 managers are consistently looking for feedback from their team and trying to improve in their
position.

Advantages Disadvantages
• It breeds healthy communications among • can lead to inefficiency and slow decision-
teams. making since everyone is involved in the
• It encourages upward feedback. process.

 Best for
 Managers who want to take on more of a mentor role.
 Transformational Management Style
(Democratic)
 Managers strive to create a culture that encourages adaptability, innovation, and problem-solving.

Advantages Disadvantages
• Motivated team members looking to grow in • Sets difficult goals
their careers and roles.
• Breathe life into more mundane tasks • Can lead to burnout and employee
• Helps team members see the bigger picture of turnover.
what they’re working toward.

 Best for
 Fast-moving, intrinsically-motivated teams that are always adapting to new circumstances.
 Laissez-faire Management Style

 Managers prefer to give team members nearly full autonomy.

Advantages Disadvantages
• Team members are encouraged to • Inexperienced team struggle to prioritize work.
be creative.
• Managers doesn’t provide context for work
• Self-motivated employees benefit
from increased autonomy. • Employees feel unsupported or lost.

• Manager doesn’t lead by example

Advantages Disadvantages
• When done well, this style can spur • Managers can’t feign inspiration.
creativity.
• This method can feel more like leadership
• Encourage team to work harder because than management. If you use this method,
they’re truly passionate about their work be sure you’re continuing to support your
team rather than just trying to inspire.

 Best for
 Innovative teams looking to disrupt an industry.
 Delegative Management Style
(Laissez-faire)
 Managers and team members only interact when managers are assigning them tasks.
 Team members generally have the freedom to do tasks in their own way.

Advantages Disadvantages
• Allows team members to maximize • Without a clear feedback process during the
creativity. project life cycle, the end result may suffer.
• No risk of micromanaging in this style.
As a result, team members feel • No process for conflict resolution.
autonomous in their work.

 Best for
 Employees with more expertise than their manager.
 Manager should facilitate rather than support and give feedback.
Thank you for your time and participation

Acknowledgements: Julia Martins @ asana