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Lord of the Flies Leadership Style

Leadership
What do leaders do, and how do they help us? A leader brings organization to all types of work. Leaders facilitate teamwork, showing each individual team member his or her task. Certain leadership styles seem more effective than others in particular situations. There are three main types of leadership: autocrat, democrat, and laissez-faire. Various types of leadership are neither necessarily good nor bad, but their effectiveness depends on the situation in which they are exercised, as demonstrated in the lives of Ralph and Jack in The Lord of the Flies.
In autocrat leadership, the leader exerts full control. This type of leadership should be used in the situation that time is restricted. Skill and knowledge for the individual team members are not much required, but the leader should have both skill and knowledge. In the situation that the team doesn’t know much about each other, this kind of leadership would be helpful. When each team member wishes to dominate th...

Posted by: Margaret Rowden

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