| A | B |
|---|
| Democratic | A leadership style is a style in which managers work with employees to make decisions |
| Autocratic | leadership style is one in which one person runs everything and makes all the decisions without consulting others. |
| free -reign | requires the leader to set goals for managers and employees and then leave them alone to get the job done. |
| delegating | Giving managers and employees the power to run things and make decisions |
| self- managed teams | Work groups that supervise themselves. |
| The country where self- managed teams started | Japan |
| Advantages to self-managed teams | 1) They are more goal-oriented than task-oriented. 2) Team members have a chance to learn each other’s job and obtain new skills. 3) Team members learn to participate and cooperate. 4) Self-managed teams learn to solve their own problems |
| A Disadvantage to self- managed teams | Some people do not have the skills and initiative to work together productively. |
| Assumption of a democratic leader. | Workers have ideas and are inclined to contribute. |
| Assumption of an autocratic leader | Workers must have decisions made for them. |
