Thursday, November 12, 2009

Authoritarianism

Dear Friends,


On a daily basis we interact with so many people in our Professional world and many a times we do distinguish a person the way he / she reacts, behaves towards the people in different Hierarchy level. An individual behaves as per his / her personality attribute, one such personality attribute is Authoritarianism.

“Authoritarianism is the extent to which an individual believes that Power & Status differences are appropriate within same level in an organization”. For example, a person who is highly authoritarian may accept directions or orders from someone with more authority just because the other person is Boss.
A person who is not highly authoritarian may still carry out appropriate, reasonable & right directions from the boss, but he / she may question things, express disagreements with the boss.
By nature authoritarians are autocratic, demanding and does not involve subordinates in decision making whereas less authoritarians are democratic in nature.

After reading this I hope you all must be analyzing others and your own personality trait.

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