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    This document contains a leadership styles assessment for students to evaluate their own leadership tendencies. [1] It includes 18 statements about leadership to which students indicate their level of agreement on a scale of 1 to 5. [2] Students then add up their scores on subsets of the statements to determine if they have an authoritarian, democratic, or laissez-faire leadership style. [3] The scores are then interpreted on a range from very low to very high to assess which style is most or least dominant for the student.

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    This document contains a leadership styles assessment for students to evaluate their own leadership tendencies. [1] It includes 18 statements about leadership to which students indicate their level of agreement on a scale of 1 to 5. [2] Students then add up their scores on subsets of the statements to determine if they have an authoritarian, democratic, or laissez-faire leadership style. [3] The scores are then interpreted on a range from very low to very high to assess which style is most or least dominant for the student.

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    This document contains a leadership styles assessment for students to evaluate their own leadership tendencies. [1] It includes 18 statements about leadership to which students indicate their level of agreement on a scale of 1 to 5. [2] Students then add up their scores on subsets of the statements to determine if they have an authoritarian, democratic, or laissez-faire leadership style. [3] The scores are then interpreted on a range from very low to very high to assess which style is most or least dominant for the student.

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    07 Leadership Styles

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    This document contains a leadership styles assessment for students to evaluate their own leadership tendencies. [1] It includes 18 statements about leadership to which students indicate their level of agreement on a scale of 1 to 5. [2] Students then add up their scores on subsets of the statements to determine if they have an authoritarian, democratic, or laissez-faire leadership style. [3] The scores are then interpreted on a range from very low to very high to assess which style is most or least dominant for the student.

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    Name: ID No.

    Program: Major:

    Management in Practice: Experiential Exercise

    Leadership Styles

    Consider your own impression of the term “leadership”. Based on your experiences, what is leadership?
    Read the following statements and put an x mark in the box that corresponds to your answer using the scales
    below to indicate the degree to which you agree or disagree with each statement about leadership. There are
    no right or wrong answers. The aim is to provide you with insight about how you define and view leadership
    styles.

    1 = Strongly Disagree
    2 = Disagree
    3 = Neutral
    4 = Agree
    5 = Strongly Agree

    1 2 3 4 5
    1. Employees need to be supervised closely or not likely to do their work.

    2. Employees want to be part of the decision-making process.

    3. In complex situations, leaders should let subordinates work problems out on


    their own.
    4. It is fair to say that most employees in the general population are lazy.

    5. Providing guidance without pressure is the key of being a good leader.

    6. Leadership requires staying out of the way of subordinates as they do their


    work.
    7. As a rule, employees must be given rewards or punishments in order to
    motivate them to achieve organizational objectives.
    8. Most workers want frequent and supportive communication from their
    leaders.
    9. Leaders need to help subordinates accept responsibility for completing their
    work.
    10. Leaders should give subordinates complete freedom to solve problems on
    their own.
    11. The leader is the chief of the achievements of the members of the group.

    12. It is the leader’s job to help subordinates find their “passion”.

    13. Effective leaders give orders and clarify procedures.

    14. People are basically competent and id given a task will do a good job.

    15. In general, it is best to leave subordinated alone.

    16. As a rule, leaders should allow subordinates to appraise their own work.

    17. Most employees feel insecure about their work and need direction.

    18. In most situations, workers prefer little input from the leader.

    Scoring:

    Add together the scores of items 1, 4, 7, 10, 13 and 16.


    These items measure authoritarian leadership.
    The authoritarian score is:
    Add together the scores of items 2, 5, 8, 11, 14 and 17.
    These items measure democratic leadership.
    The democratic score is:

    Add together the scores of items 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18.


    These items measure laissez-faire leadership.
    The laissez-faire score is:

    SCORE INTERPRETATION:

    This questionnaire is designed to measure three common styles of leadership: authoritarian, democratic, and
    laissez-faire. By comparing your scores, you can determine which styles are most dominant and least dominant
    in your own style of leadership. For each of the three scores, the use the following rubric:

    If the score is 26 or higher, it is in the very high range.

    If the score is 21 to 25, it is in the high range.

    If the score is 16 to 20, it is in the moderate range.

    If the score is 11 to 15, it is in the low range.

    If the score is 10 or less, it is in the very low range.

    NOTE: Adopted from Management (6e) by Richard L. Daft.

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