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and insists that they are obeyed. He believes that reward or punishment can be
given depending upon the-performance.
Identify and describe the leadership style being adopted by Namit.
3-4 marks Questions
Q. Describe the concept of Authoritative leadership and state its advantages?
Q. Describe the concept of Laissez-faire leadership and state its advantages?
Q.3 Describes the concept of Democratic leadership and states its disadvantages?
5-6 marks Questions
Q.1 Umang Gupta is the Managing Director of Denver Ltd. The company had
established a good name for it and had been doing well. It was known for timely
completion of orders. The Production Manager, Ms. Kanta was efficiently
handling the processing of orders and had a team of fourteen motivated
employees working under her. Everything was going on well. Unfortunately she
met with an accident. Umang knew that in the absence of Ms. Kanta, the
company may not be able to meet the deadlines. He also knew that not meeting
the deadlines may lead to customer dissatisfaction with the risk of loss of
business and goodwill. So, he had a meeting with his employees in which accurate
and speedy processing of orders was planned. Everybody agreed to work as team
because the behaviour of Umang Gupta was positive towards the employees of
the organization. Hence everyone put in extra time and efforts and the targets
were met on time. Not only this, Umang visited Ms. Kanta and advised her to take
