S1094-Leadership Styles Questionnaire
S1094-Leadership Styles Questionnaire
Purpose:
1. To identify your style of supervision/leadership
2. To examine how your supervisory/leadership style relates to other styles of leadership.
Directions:
1. For each of the statements below, circle the number that indicates the degree at which you
agree or disagree.
2. Give your immediate impressions. There are no right or wrong answers.
Scoring:
Autocratic
“My way or the highway”
• Supervisor/Leader dictates policies and procedures. Enforcement dictated by violations of the rules.
• Employees are expected to make the right decisions.
• Managers/Supervisors decide what goals are to be achieved.
• Managers/Supervisors direct and control most activities with minimal input from employees.
“If an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, “it’s in the script.”
If he says “but what’s my motivation?” I say, “your salary.”
— Alfred Hitchcock
Style 2
Democratic
“What do you think?”
• Solicit input from employees
• Managers/Supervisors involved in decision making process with employees. Rules are fluid.
• Managers/Supervisors distribute responsibility among employees
• Departments/Teams set goals together with manager/supervisor responsible for keeping employees on
task to achieve the goals.
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”
— Thomas Aquinas
Style 3
Laissez-faire or Let it be
“Do what you want as long as you get the job done right”
• Teamwork and Empowerment is key to success.
• Employees given authority to make decisions and are then accountable to those decisions.
• Rules are minimized while good decision making is expected.
• Managers/Supervisors need to know when to step in.
“It’s a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.”
— Lou Holtz