Management Styles

Terms

Management, Leadership, Autocratic, Participative, Consultative

Boots recognises that a business will thrive only if it develops the skills of its employees and keeps its workforce motivated. Boots believes that it needs to retain the commitment of its employees. This approach is reflected in the Company management style.

Management is the planning, organisation and control of resources in order to gain a stated objective. There are different ways that a manager may carry out their job and this depends on their style of leadership.

Leadership is the ability to take charge of people, so that they perform their tasks to the best of their ability. A good leader gains the support, hard work, loyalty and respect of other workers. Leadership is the ability to see what needs to be done and to get people to work willingly to get those things done as well as possible.

1. Authoritarian
2. Democratic
3. Paternalistic
4. Laissez-faire

Management style may refer to the style of an individual manager, or it may be the style followed by all the managers in a company. As previously mentioned, the ways managers carry out their jobs is affected by their style of leadership.

1) Autocratic – managers tell people what to do and how to do it. Once made, a decision must not be questioned. This style assumes that all decisions should be made at the top. Examples of when businesses may use an Autocratic management style:

2) Participative – workers are invited to take part in making decisions. As a first step, workers are kept informed, often through a house magazine or newspaper. They need to know what is going on before they can help to make decisions. In a participative system the workers may make decisions jointly with the managers. What are ways in which participation may take place in a business?

3) Consultative – managers ask for the views of other managers and their workers before making a decision. Workers are again kept well informed. They are asked for their opinions through various committees, however, they may not be involved in actually making the decision.

Consultative and participative styles of management are very similar. Both are based on a democratic style of leadership.
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Boots’ Management Style:

Which category(ies) does Boots’ management style fall into? Explain your choice.

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“Boots believes that it needs to retain the commitment of its employees. This approach is reflected in the Company management style.” Discuss whether Boots’ management style is consistent with their desire to retain the commitment of their employees

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