Question

Bernard expects his employees to​ "check their brains at the​ door." He does all the​ thinking, makes all the​ decisions, and issues commands to his subordinates. Bernard uses the​ ________ style of leadership.

a. ​laissez-faire
b. authoritarian
c. autocratic
d. democratic

Answer 1

Bernard uses the C. autocratic style of leadership.

Step-by-step explanation:

This type of leadership centers on one individual taking over control for a group. It is also known as authoritarian leadership; this means the leader tends to make decisions solely on his/her opinion, not taking others' into account. The rest of the group is not usually trusted with any decisions.

In this case Bernard does all the thinking, makes all the decisions and gives commands to his subordinates, making him an autocratic leader.

Answer 2

Option B

Step-by-step explanation:

Bernard Exercises Authoritarian style of leadership. from the passage, Bernard does the thinking, makes all the decisions and issues commands to his subordinates.

Authoritarians make decisions and set targets and procedures wihtout little input from there subordinates and they expect them to follow such procedures to details.

Also know that Authoritarian and Autocratic are the same attributes, that is why i have chosen option B and C. but if one option is best fit, Option B is the best fit.

Option A style of leadership requires the lead or head to leave things and believes things will work out on it own without any input, this does not relate to Bernard attributes in the passage.

While Option D style of leadership requires input and ideas from followers or subordinates.