Democratic Management Style

Democratic Management Style is yet another Management Style. It is one of the four most common management styles currently practiced in the social as well as business environment. How is this Democratic Management Style different from all the other three Management Styles? Let’s take a look at the democratic management style with a different perspective.

Democratic Management Style Explained

A Democratic Management Style has moderate approach to a situation whether at work or in a social places. The way things are get done is to seek opinion from your staffs as opposed to giving a direct instruction. In the case of a social place example a community meeting, your tend to seek opinions and points of view from those turn up for the community meeting. As a democratic manager, you still need to give instruction but before you do that, you will solicits ideas and opinion from your staffs and you allow the voice of your staffs and make your own decision based on those feedback. Sometimes the decision made are similar to the feedback but not always the case in the case of a Democratic Management Style.

Traits of a Democratic Management Style

A Democratic Management Style manager has some common traits. In contrast to the Autocratic Management Style, he or she is seen as a mild approach personnel in term of control and sometimes indecisive. Managers of this Democratic Management Style are considered someone do not want to make his own decision. He is perceived to be someone who play safe in carry out new task since decision has gone through one more layer of consideration i.e. the staffs.

Pros

1. Encourage group decision
2. Look more friendly
3. Value opinion from staff
4. Reduce implementation conflicts

Cons

1. decision made may not be the best for the company
2. time consuming
3. Conflict among support and non-support group (about the)
4. Staff may not have enough knowledge about the decision

There are situation where a democratic management style is most appropriate. Below are some examples:=

• When the manager is new to the job
• Unpopular decision affecting the benefits of the staffs
• Management seek new ideas
• Different interest group
• election
• board meetings
• social activities

There are many more pros, cons that your can explore yourself and customize it to you own. You can research into other literature on Democratic Management Style or other Management Styles like  and whenever possible, apply it to your democratic management style.

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