Directive Leadership

Directive Leadership

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Directive Leadership

Directive leadership is one of the best result oriented leadership techniques that is sure to assure the management of an organization efficiency and high quality standardized output. However, in certain circumstance directive leadership may fail to yield desirable result due certain follower attributes: experience, ability and a need for independence.

In a bank worker who poses experience, ability to accomplish tasks and desire independence may find a directive leader to be dictatorial, followers who poses experience and ability always want to work in a manner that suits their skill, where as a directive bank leader always wants things to be conducted in a manner he/she deems effective or suitable for his/her leadership objective. In this instance, the leader and his/her followers do not share the same perspective and as a result the followers may feel that their leader is dictatorial when s/he demands that they observe his guidance, and their work morale and efficiency may be affected by the attitude they develop towards their leader. On the other hand, the resistance the bank leader may face from the followers may make him resent them and may retaliate to assert his dominance thereby staining the leader follower relationship existing between them.

The same is to be said of a school setting. Experienced teacher and other school employee, who have ability and desire personal independence, always look for job satisfaction. However, when their school leader insists on directing their every move, they will no longer derive job satisfaction from their work. They well feel that their ability and experience are being undermine resulting in resentment and resistance while their leader may interpret their resistance as disrespect. The resultant strained relationship will lower work efficiency and the school may loose quality employees who may opt to find job satisfaction elsewhere.