Positive and negative approach:
Positive and negative approach:
Positive and Negative
Approaches. There is a difference in the ways leaders approach their employee. Positive leaders use rewards, such as education, independence, etc. to motivate employees; whereas the negative employees emphasize penalties.
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Positive and negative approach |
While the negative approach has a place in a leader's repertoire of tools, it must be used carefully due to its high cost on the human spirit. Negative leaders act domineering and superior with people.
They believe the only way to get things done is through penalties, such as loss of job, days off without pay, reprimand employees in front of others, etc.
They believe their authority is increased by freighting everyone into higher lever of productivity. Yet what always happens when this approach is used wrongly is that morale falls; which of course leads to lower productivity.
Also note that most leaders do not strictly use one or the other approach, but are somewhere on a continuum ranging from extremely positive to extremely negative.
People who continuously work out of the negative are bosses, while those who primarily work out of the positive are considered real leaders.