Job satisfaction and Work Motivation under
laissez-faire leadership style
Laissez-faire leadership is a nonauthoritarian style in which leaders typically are hands-off, allowing employees to make most of their own business decisions.
To what extent do the secondary school principals in the sample demonstrate authoritative, democratic and
laissez-faire leadership styles?
Even though, the
laissez-faire leadership style gives the opportunity to individuals to have dominant roles in decision-making.
"Transformational, transactional, and
laissez-faire leadership styles: A meta-analysis comparing women and men", Psychological Bulletin, 95, 2003, pp.569-591.
Thus,
laissez-faire leadership style has negative opinion whereas a leader expects the followers to work on many tasks their own way with least monitor and supervision.
In certain technical areas, Shaikh Zayed followed
laissez-faire leadership style.
h1c:
Laissez-faire leadership style and leadership effectiveness are negatively correlated
3.2.3
Laissez-faire Leadership: Eagly and Carli (2003) and Kouzes and Posner (2003) reported that the laissez-faire leader allows the members to work on their own with little or no involvement from the leader.
Laissez-faire leadership also known as delegative leadership, is a type of leadership style in which leaders are hands-off and allow group members to make the decisions.