Alan is a store manager of a Big Four outdoor sporting goods store. Alan holds weekly meetings with his staff to discuss store sales goals. He likes to get feedback from his employees, and he is interested in their ideas and their input before he sets the store goals and makes store policy. He wants to create a work environment based on the concept of teamwork.

Based on this information, Alan is practicing which leadership style?

a) expressive

b) democratic

c) authoritative

d) authoritarian

e) laissez-faire

b) democratic

Explanation:

From the description of problem we can assert that Alan;

1. Hold meetings with employees to set goals

2. Take input from team members in decision making

and policy making.

3. Emphasis on teamwork to set and achieve goals

It is therefore, very clear that Alan is following democratic style of leadership since all the above traits are found in the democratic style of leadership. Democratic leadership style is also known as participative/shared leadership style due to the fact that it allows participation of team members to provide their input in decision and policy making.

Option c and d are exact opposite of what Alan is doing, therefore are not correct. There is no such information given that suggests option e and a.