The Impact of Leadership Styles in the Administrative Decision-Making Process in Jordanian Industrial Companies

Abstract

The study aims to find out the impact of leadership styles in the administrative decision-making process in Jordanian industrial companies as the hypotheses underlying the research and testing have been formulated through the distribution of a questionnaire on  specialists in the Jordanian industrial sector. The study has found that the most common technique in the decision-making process is the authoritarian style as most of the Jordanian industrial companies are owned by the family after which the company is  named , followed by the democratic style then the last style, called the laissez-faire style ,  sometimes called  the liberal approach.

The study recommends the adoption of the authoritarian approach in the administrative decision-making process in family-owned companies as most of these companies achieve profits continuously without changing the existing supervisory authorities.

Keywords : leadership styles, administrative decision-making process, industrial sector.