Management styles

We all make decisions every day. It is these decisions that allow us to manage our lives, enabling us to do the things we want to do, while working with and around: other people, time and the everyday problems which always seem to occur.

Similarly a business needs to be managed. An Organisation is not called that because it falls apart every five minutes, but because the various parts have been managed and organised in order to fit its purpose

How the various parts are managed and by whom, largely depends on the type of organisation /business and its aims and objectives and the management styles of the individual managers themselves.

Management in its simplest form is about how you make use of your resources. These resources can be anything from how your money is spent and balancing a budget, moving people around, designing and placing items, in order to make the best of what you have.

There are four main management styles which can be employed within a business structure.

Taking each of these Management styles individually does not show a true picture of how a business should be managed.
It is likely that in most modern organisations many, if not all, of these styles are used at some time or other as changes to policies and practices are made almost on a week to week/month to month basis.

Which management style does your organisation use when and why?