Leading Project teams: The role of leadership styles in dynamic work environment

Abstract— The current study aimed to examine the influence of three different leadership style including
(authoritarian leadership style, democratic leadership style, laissez faire leadership style on work
environment at selected private businesses in Erbil. The current study applied quantitative research method
to measure the developed research hypotheses. The study prepared a questionnaire consists of different
sections; including questions regarding to the authoritarian leadership, certain questions regarding to the
democratic leadership, moreover several questions regarding to the Laissez-Faire leadership styles and
lastly set questions about work environment at private businesses. The findings revealed that the most
powerful leadership style with associated with work environment was Laissez-Faire leadership followed by
democratic leadership style and the lowest value was for authoritarian leadership style.
Keywords— Leadership, authoritarian, democratic, laissez-faire, work environment