Laissez-Faire Leadership

A management style in which the manager provides little or no oversight to employees. The manager may be available to answer questions, but, in general, lets the employees perform their work. Laissez-faire leadership works best with employees who are highly competent and/or experienced.

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Job satisfaction and Work Motivation under laissez-faire leadership style

IMPACT OF HEAD TEACHER'S LEADERSHIP STYLE ON TEACHER'S JOB SATISFACTION AND WORK MOTIVATION

Laissez-faire leadership is a nonauthoritarian style in which leaders typically are hands-off, allowing employees to make most of their own business decisions.

WHAT'S YOUR LEADERSHIP STYLE?

To what extent do the secondary school principals in the sample demonstrate authoritative, democratic and laissez-faire leadership styles?

IMPACT OF THINKING PREFERENCES ON THE LEADERSHIP STYLES OF SCHOOL PRINCIPALS

Even though, the laissez-faire leadership style gives the opportunity to individuals to have dominant roles in decision-making.

A Study of Relationship between Leadership Styles of Principals and Job Satisfaction of Teachers in Colleges for Women

"Transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles: A meta-analysis comparing women and men", Psychological Bulletin, 95, 2003, pp.569-591.

Gender Perspectives of Transformational Leadership Style and Leadership Effectiveness: A Case Study of Pakistan and Turkey

Rauthmann: Leading yourself and leading others: Linking self-leadership to transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 22(4), 436-449 (2013)

Analisis Exploratorio de las Percepciones sobre los Estilos de Liderazgo, el Clima Academico y la Calidad de la Formacion de Pregrado

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.

Perceptions of Leadership and Skills Development in Academic Libraries

In certain technical areas, Shaikh Zayed followed laissez-faire leadership style.

Sound decision-making hallmark of Zayed's leadership

h1c: Laissez-faire leadership style and leadership effectiveness are negatively correlated

LEADERSHIP STYLES OF ACADEMIC SUPERVISORS AS PREDICTORS OF EFFECTIVENESS, EXTRA EFFORT, AND SATISFACTION: A CASE OF PAKISTAN HIGHER EDUCATION

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.

EXAMINING THE EFFECT OF LEADERSHIP ON WOMEN CAREER PATHS IN THE MIDDLE-EAST: A MEDIATION EFFECT OF GLASS CEILING

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.

A study on strategic leadership styles among Kudumbashree in promoting agricultural business

Overall, the literature suggests that transactional and transformational leadership styles positively influence team performance, while the laissez-faire leadership style, also called non-leadership, negatively influences or does not influence team performance.