- Don’t take anything personally. …
- Be responsible for everything you do or don’t do. …
- Let them feel in control. …
- Understand their anger probably isn’t about you. …
- Don’t react impulsively. …
- Don’t gossip about your dislike for the boss.
- Leaders make decisions with little or no participation or creative input from their followers or team members.
- Leaders independently preside over policies and processes.
- Group members are always directly supervised by the leader.
Definition. The authoritarian personality
The definition of authoritative is
someone or something having power, influence or the right to control and make decisions
. When a parent speaks to a child in a certain tone of voice so that the child knows he must obey, that is an example of an authoritative voice.
- Don’t take anything personally. …
- Be responsible for everything you do or don’t do. …
- Let them feel in control. …
- Understand their anger probably isn’t about you. …
- Don’t react impulsively. …
- Don’t gossip about your dislike for the boss.
A typology of authoritarian regimes by political scientists Brian Lai and Dan Slater includes four categories: machine (oligarchic party dictatorships); bossism (autocratic party dictatorships); juntas (oligarchic military dictatorships); and strongman (autocratic military dictatorships).
Authoritarianism,
principle of blind submission to authority
, as opposed to individual freedom of thought and action. In government, authoritarianism denotes any political system that concentrates power in the hands of a leader or a small elite that is not constitutionally responsible to the body of the people.
Bill Gates’ leadership style is
purely autocratic or sometimes called authoritarian
(Thielen, 2000). This kind of a leader makes most or all of the organizational decisions without the input or involvement of the employees. … Bill Gates restricted the ability of his internal partners to deal with competitors.
Typically, authoritarian leaders make
choices that are based on their own judgments and ideas and hardly ever accept advice from the followers
. Authoritarian leadership involves absolute control over a task or group. Authoritarian leadership examples include Bill Gates and President John F. Kennedy.
An example is Ethiopia under Haile Selassie I. Bureaucratic-military authoritarian regimes are those “governed by a coalition of military officers and technocrats who act pragmatically (rather than ideologically) within the limits of their bureaucratic mentality.”
Authoritative leaders bring clarity: They are
effective
because of their ability to inspire, motivate, and influence their team. … They have a clear vision of what success looks like, and give their team members clear direction and constructive feedback as they work toward organizational goals.
As described, then, authoritative power is
a capability to use legitimacy to convince a person to do something
. It is understood that “legitimacy” is as seen in the other’s perspective. Psychologically, authority works through the superego.
The authoritarian personality included nine dimensions:
support for conventional values, authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, stereotypy and rigidity, toughness and power, and cynicism
, as well as the psychodynamic components of anti-intraception, projectivity, and sexual inhibition.
Both forms of government discourage individual freedom of thought and action. Totalitarianism attempts to do this by
asserting total control over the lives of its citizens
, whereas authoritarianism prefers the blind submission of its citizens to authority.
What is the difference between totalitarianism and autocracy?
Autocracies are typically authoritarian in nature, meaning that an authority has most of the control over people’s lives. … In a totalitarian form of government, an
authority has control over all aspects of people’s lives
, including such private activities as the practice of religion and the creation of artwork.
Autocracy: 1 ruler; Oligarchy: small group of people rule; Democracy/ direct democracy: The people rule and are involved in every aspect of government; Constitutional government: Formal limits on government; Authoritarian government:
No limit to government power but they follow certain social institutions
; Totalitarian …