Opravy

The workplace has always been an ever-challenging environment in which different strategies for leadership and success have been tested.

Leaders are supposed to make the most out of their business and account for their workers’ productivity and well-being.

As regards this matter, both texts present very different leadership styles.

According to the ‘Affiliative Style’, worker’s morale is placed over productivity.

In contrast, the ‘Pacesetting style’ focuses only on the rentability of the worker’s production.

The first text puts forward the implication of adopting an ‘Affiliative style’, in which leaders are in charge of providing a harmonic setting to develop the required professional activity.

In return, loyalty from the workers is expected.

However, because leaders trust workers so much that the even do not support them with sound advice, productivity may end up compromised.

Certainly, this approach sounds like the ideal methodology to implement in companies, but I believe it stands little chance to succeed in such a competitive world, where drops in productivity are not allowed, as they would drive businesses to their bankrupt.

At the other end of the spectrum, the ‘Pacesetting style’ fixes clear objectives and leaders take an exigent role, demanding employees to make their best regardless their mental wellbeing.

Presumably, this strategy attempts to yield the highest possible productivity.

Notwithstanding, workers’ morale often will get undermined, fact that is further pronounced considering that workers can be easily replaced if they underperform.

This leadership style should be forbidden by law, in my opinion.

Unfortunately, there is so much current need for entry-level position jobs that this is the method that most young people undergo, and endure lest they will never get enough experience to promote.

Personally, I think that these two styles are to opposite between them.

Thus, none of them is prone to achieve businesses goals with guarantees.

Albeit a proper mixture of both styles should get the best of both worlds and hopefully we will see it in the forthcoming future.