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Choose two leadership styles and create a program using each style on how to reduce stress and increase productivity throughout your organization. In your paper, add at least two email messages for each style (four total) to the general staff to kick-start the program. See the attached example!

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Leadership Program Democratic vs. Autocratic Leader Leadership Styles BSC 407 – Effective Organization Owen Fernandes th Individual Paper 1 – 20 October 2011Leadership Styles 1 Introduction In this paper, I will present two leadership styles – democratic and autocratic. I will apply them on two situations – one regarding stress reduction and one regarding production increase. The company I’ve chosen for this paper is called MeMoTech (Measurement and Monitoring Technology). In order to describe the difference between the two styles in the two different situations I will write 4 e-mails to the employees of the company where I will present the different way of communication and different attitude that follow from the different natures of these styles. MeMoTech is participating in a special project over the next week. It is going to have its own stand in an international technological fair (ITF) in another town where it is going to present its products. MeMoTech participates in this fair every year. There is a group of people who is taking part in this project (leader of the project, technical staff from all the departments…). These people represent the company. The leader of the group is going to talk to the team. Based on the previous years’ experience and current situation in the company he is about to send an e-mail to the group. In the first situation, he is trying to reduce stress in the group that arises from a number of reasons. He knows that some people in the group perceive this project as a waste of time because they will have to be at the fair instead of being in their offices – it makes them feel more stressed as they worry they are going to be behind their schedule on their regular work. Other people don’t get on well with some other people within the group and now they will be forced to cooperate. In fact, majority of the group is dissatisfied with the leader himself, but he doesn’t know that. They feel...

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The leader influences and persuades to change the attitude and behavior of the 
employees. There are different styles of leadership. The two styles of leadership that are 
discussed here are autocratic and democratic. Autocratic leaders have maximum control over the 
members and processes. They have complete powers of decision making, giving orders and 
allocating resources. Democratic leaders encourage high level of employee involvement in 
decision making process by asking them for suggestions and feedbacks.  
 In this assignment, the two styles of leadership would be applied on how to reduce stress 
and increase productivity throughout the organization. To explain the difference in approach to 
communication and attitudes of the leaders, four emails would be written reflecting the 
difference in the way an autocratic and a democratic leader would write emails to their 
employees for reducing stress and increasing productivity. The scenario that is identified for 
considering as background for writing these emails is that the second quarter end is approaching 
and it is very important for the company to meet its half yearly targets. So, all employees are 
working hard towards meeting the targets. The stress level among the employees is high and 
there is pressure from the top to increase productivity.  
 Firstly, the leader is working towards reducing stress of the employees. The stress arises 
from work related pressure, internal conflicts within the group, job related dissatisfaction, 
dissatisfaction with managers, etc. Moreover, now it is crucial for all employees to focus on 
targets. Two emails are written in autocratic and democratic style respectively to address the 
employees about a meeting and how to work towards reducing stress. Secondly, the leader tries 
to improve productivity of the employees. As the half year end is approaching and a large target 
is yet to be met, the employees need to improve their productivity and meet the targets in a short 
time.  Emails are written in autocratic and democratic style respectively to address the employees 
about a meeting on how to improve productivity.
Reducing stress – Autocratic Style 
From: Leader of the Group 
To: The Team Members 
Subject: Review meeting
Dear Team, 
As we all know that it is just one month for the second quarter to come to an end, I understand 
there is a lot of stress that every employee is undergoing.

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