Human interactions, such as the capacity to influence people, are important aspects of leadership. Leaders can use personal characteristics and styles in order to influence others.
2.6.1. Personality Leadership Style
Meyer and Salovey (1997:11) define personality as a term that is commonly used in ordinary conversation and refers to a person's general behaviour pattern or natural being. When someone is assigned a leadership responsibility, his or her personality plays a big part. It is obvious that the Greater Giyani Local Municipality's leadership should have a positive personality, as this would aid in the delivery of successful services. The regulations are more likely to be followed by someone having a pleasant personality. As a result, even if they are given leadership responsibilities and act as if they are not in leadership, people respond differently in different situations and have specific tendencies. Bernstein, Roy, Srull, and Wickens (1991:535) thought that personality is an enduring pattern of psychological and behavioural qualities that can be used to compare persons. Each individual's pattern is unique.
2.6.2. Charismatic Leadership Style
According to Kippenberger (2002:20), charismatic leader is someone who has a strong vision, a lot of self-confidence, a strong belief that they are correct, and a forceful attitude. In both the public and private sectors, charismatic leadership is one of the most essential types or approaches to leadership. This type of leadership style can assist leaders in Greater Giyani Local Municipality to get out of difficult situations or difficulties. Charismatic leadership is perceived as a leadership style that looks to be appealing to the people since the leader is well liked by them. Nevertheless, this does not guarantee that the person in a leadership position would perform successfully.
2.6.3. Autocratic Leadership Style
The autocratic leadership style is one that is self-serving and liberal in nature due to a lack of participation from others (Mondy & Premeaux, 1993: 295). Lanaj, Johnson,
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and Lee (2015:01) describe autocratic leadership as a style of leadership that suppresses other people's creativity, including their excellent and bright ideas, to assist leadership in improving services. Cuba and North Korea are two countries that function under autocratic leadership. Some scholars, such as Hoffman and Whitehead (2016:06), did not believe that the late Cuban President's autocratic leadership would be able to support the country's economy. It was, however, sustainable, and Cuba served as an example to many countries on the African continent and beyond. The autocratic leader demands and assumes obedience from his or her followers without involving them in consultative processes. Based on the literature presented above, it is evident that this leadership style will never be successful in local government. Political and administrative leaders who use the aforementioned leadership style do not always succeed in uniting and collaborating with their subordinates. Employees are demotivated to perform effective service delivery in municipalities when these types of leaders are in charge. This challenge does not exclude any leaders in the Greater Giyani Local Municipality.
2.6.4. Laissez-fare Leadership Style
Because of the lack of limited leadership involvement and the allowance of the constituency to lead themselves in many crucial and critical decisions that must be made, this type of leadership style is generally viewed as a negative leadership style (Chaudhry & Javed, 2007). Leaders do little, which has a detrimental effect on the outcome or end effects of various critical activities. The consequence of doing nothing ultimately hurts leadership because when failures or bad things happen, people will blame the leaders, not the constituency, for failing to provide successful leadership, regardless of the leadership style used or applied. (Chaudhry & Javed, 2012:259). According to the information presented above, this type of leadership cannot work in the municipalities. Political and administrative leaders together with the communities should work together to deliver effective service.
2.6.5. Democratic Leadership Style
According to Choi (2007:246), a democratic leader is one who shares decision- making with other members and, in most cases, is correlated with higher morale.
Increased follower efficiency, happiness, participation, and engagement are also linked to this type of leadership. Ward councillors who are more likely to use this
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leadership style have a better chance of re-election because community members feel in control of their own growth. In contrast to an autocratic leader, a democratic leader consults with the people. Through this type of leadership, the political and administrative leadership in Greater Giyani Municipality can meet the needs of the communities. Leadership in local municipalities should consult to the community before implementing nay service. Because of a lack of consultation, municipalities may supply services that the community does not require. The municipality, for example, can offer road infrastructure to a village that desperately needs water and sanitation. The Greater Giyani Local Municipality would benefit from this style of leadership.
2.6.6. Free Rein Leadership Style.
The free rein leader exerts very little influence over his followers, allowing them to exercise a great deal of autonomy. These are used on followers who have shown responsibility and are extremely motivated in the performance of their duties (Rahman, 2015). A leader who has complete control over the group allows the group to lead itself. The leader of the free rein avoids power. He primarily relies on the community to set its own goals and solve its own problems. Members of the group function independently and are responsible for their own motivation. Communities would benefit from this style of leadership. The community will be able to speak up about the problems they are having with service delivery. This form of leadership style can benefit the Greater Giyani Local Municipality. There are people whose voices are not being heard by the municipalities due to a lack of this type of leadership style, and this has a detrimental influence on service delivery.
The dynamics of the circumstance have an effect on all leadership styles. A leader's behaviour is referred to as his or her leadership style. Leadership style is a term used to define the leader's behavioural pattern as it reflects his function as a leader.
The ideology, personality, experience, and value system of a leader influence their leadership style. It also depends on the type of supporters you have and the culture of your organization.
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