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=Leadership Styles=

The authoritarian or autocratic leader maintains strict control over followers by directly regulating policy, procedures, and behavior. Authoritarian leaders create distance between themselves and their followers as a means of emphasizing rol distinctions. Many authoritarian leaders believe that followers would not function effectively without direct supervision. The authoritarian leader generally feels that people left to complete work on their own will be unproductive. Examples of authoritarian communicative behavior include a police officer directing traffic, a teacher ordering a sutdent to do his or her assignment, and a supervisor insreucting a subordinate to clean a workstation. Authoritarian Traits: sets goals individually, engages primarily in one-way, downward communication, controls discussion with followers, sets