Participative decision-making techniques should be utilized when the goal is to increase employee motivation, handle resistance to change, improve the quality of a decision, promote teamwork, or develop your subordinates. It is absolutely crucial. Many problems between managers and their subordinates occur because management has not made it clear how they plan to use their authority. A common mistake some leaders make is to use a democratic facade to conceal the fact that they have already made a decision. When solving a particular problem, I believe it is extremely important for all leaders to be honest in describing what authority they are keeping and what role they are asking their subordinates to assume.
People are by nature self-motivated .
When they are not, they're dead. Therefore, the task of a leader is to create an environment where members at all levels can best achieve their own objectives by directing their efforts towards the goals of the organization. By doing so, productive, positive people motivate themselves . Rather, the effective leader is one who accurately assesses the forces that determine what the most appropriate behavior should be at any given time, and then behaves accordingly. Copyright 1999 The Deutsch Group.