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Leadership Style Assessment: Rarely Effective

This document summarizes the bureaucratic leadership style. Bureaucratic leaders strictly follow company policies and past practices, and may reject ideas from employees that do not conform to these established ways of doing things. While bureaucratic leaders listen to employee input more than autocratic leaders, there is still limited freedom for employees in how they do their jobs. This leadership style can stifle innovation and is not suitable for companies pursuing rapid growth.

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Leadership Style Assessment: Rarely Effective

This document summarizes the bureaucratic leadership style. Bureaucratic leaders strictly follow company policies and past practices, and may reject ideas from employees that do not conform to these established ways of doing things. While bureaucratic leaders listen to employee input more than autocratic leaders, there is still limited freedom for employees in how they do their jobs. This leadership style can stifle innovation and is not suitable for companies pursuing rapid growth.

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8.

Bureaucratic Leadership
Rarely Effective

Bureaucratic leaders go by the books. This style of leadership might listen and
consider the input of employees -- unlike autocratic leadership -- but the
leader tends to reject an employee's input if it conflicts with company policy or
past practices.

You may run into a bureaucratic leader at a larger, older, or traditional


company. At these companies, when a colleague or employee proposes
a strong strategy that seems new or non-traditional, bureaucratic leaders may
reject it. Their resistance might be because the company has already
been successful with current processes and trying something new could
waste time or resources if it doesn't work. 

Employees under this leadership style might not feel as controlled as they
would under autocratic leadership, but there is still a lack of freedom in how
much people are able to do in their roles. This can quickly shut down
innovation, and is definitely not encouraged for companies who are chasing
ambitious goals and quick growth.

Leadership Style Assessment


Leaders can carry a mix of the above leadership styles depending on their
industry and the obstacles they face. At the root of these styles, according to
leadership experts Bill Torbert and David Rooke, are what are called "action
logics."

These action logics assess "how [leaders] interpret their surroundings and
react when their power or safety is challenged."

That's the idea behind a popular management survey tool called


the Leadership Development Profile. Created by professor Torbert and
psychologist Susanne Cook-Greuter -- and featured in the book, Personal and
Organizational Transformations -- the survey relies on a set of 36 open-ended
sentence completion tasks to help researchers better understand how leaders
develop and grow.

Below, we've outlined six action logics using open-ended sentences that help
describe each one. See how much you agree with each sentence and, at the
bottom, find out which leadership style you uphold based on the action logics
you most agreed with.

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