Book Excerpt: Motivationally Intelligent Leadership
This excerpt is from my work on motivationally intelligent leadership. You can purchase relevant chapters by selecting the link “Access This Chapter” at the bottom.
Book Excerpt, Chapter 3, Page 34
The leader’s emotional intelligence can be viewed in terms of six leadership styles. They are coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting, and coaching (Goleman, Boyatzis et al., 2013, Girma, 2016). Leaders who can deal with disasters are coercive, and leaders who can engineer a turnaround are authoritative. Affiliative leaders can compromise to build team harmony and morale. Democratic leaders give their people a voice in decisions. Pacesetting leaders can define and exemplify high performance standards, and coaching leaders are supportive of the development of skills.
No one style is best, because as leaders, master each of these styles, they gain additional power to shape employee performance and organizational climate (Girma, 2016). Mastery of these styles is what we call “leading.” SOURCE: The relationship between leadership style and employee job satisfaction study of federal and Addis Ababa sport organizational management setting in Ethiopia (Girma, 2016).
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