Basic management Terms 2

Participative Management:
Participative Management is a type of management in which employees at all levels are encouraged to contribute ideas towards identifying and setting organizational-goals, problem solving and other decisions that may directly affect them. it is also called consultative management.

Participative Management can also be termed as ‘Industrial Democracy’, ‘Co-determination’, ‘Employee Involvement’ as well as ‘Participative Decision Making’. The concept of employee participation in organization’s decision making is not new. However, the idea couldn’t gain that much popularity among organizations. Studies have shown that only 3-5 percent of organizations have actually implemented this concept in their daily operations. Though the theory of participative management is as old as the institution of employees and employers still it is not applied by a large proportion of organizations.
Authoritarian Management:
A management style in which the leader dictates policies and procedures, decides what goals are to be achieved, and directs and control all activities without any meaningful participation by the subordinates.

Characteristics of Authoritarian Management:

1) Little or no input from group members

2) leaders make the decisions

3) Group leaders dictate all the work methods and processes

4) Group members are rarely trusted with decisions or important tasks

While autocratic leadership does have some potential pitfalls, leaders can learn to use elements of this style wisely. For example, an autocratic style can be used effectively in situations where the leader is the most knowledgeable member of the group or has access to information that other members of the group do not.