Taken from: https://www.ccjk.com/leadership-style-effective-business-management/


Leader is someone who has special skills and able to govern others to do something as her/his desired. A leader is able to manage his/her members for obtaining their organization’s goals. While leadership itself is a process of affecting and giving example/model to the followers through the communication process for obtaining the organization’s goals (Rivai, 2004). Every leaders have their own behaviors in order to govern their followers. Those behaviors are called leadership style. Kartini Kartono (2001) as cited in Nurlia (2017) inspected several leadership style, they are as follow:
1.      Charismatic: charismatic style has an energetic power, attraction and extraordinary disposition to influence other people, as a result the leader can obtain much followers that he/she can trust.
2.      Paternalistic: this style is just like a fatherly leadership, with a character that assume his/her followers as human who are not adult yet so the leader must develops them.
3.      Militaristic: this style has close relation with authoritative style. The different is militaristic style is harder. As hard as military, the leader tends to intimidate the followers by giving some punishment if the followers don’t want to obey or do what the leader wants.
4.      Liazez Faire: leaders who apply this kind of style practically don’t direct, they let the followers and everyone do what they want. Leaders don’t participate in every activities conducted in the organization. Every tasks, jobs and responsibility must be done by the followers themselves. This kind of leaders is just like a symbol, and usually doesn’t have any technical skills. They don’t have charismatic and usually cannot control the followers. They don’t do the coordination and cannot make a cooperative situation at work.
5.      Democracy: this leadership style orientated on human and give direction that enable the followers to organize their jobs/tasks/responsibility effectively. There is a work coordination applied for all the followers emphasized on internal responsibility.
6.      Authoritarian: this leadership style is selfish, the leaders have an enormous egoism that encourage them to distort facts and reality. The authoritarian leaders mostly used an extreme top-down decision making style.


References:
Rohma Nurlia, A Thesis: “Pengaruh Gaya Kepemimpinan Terhadap Kinerja Karyawan Pada PT. Al-Ijarah Indonesia Finance Lampung” (Lampung: Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Intan, 2017) http://repository.radenintan.ac.id/2353/1/SKRIPSI_FIX_ROHMA.pdf accessed on 4/9/2020.