(a) Autocratic, Democratic and Laissez-Faire are the three basic leadership styles. The main concern of a leader who has an autocratic leadership style is only work-related and has low regard for the employee. They tell employees what to do and closely monitor their performance and give them little to no support to train. The democratic leadership style involves high consideration of employees and low concern for work. Tell employees to do it their way and supervise performance at key stages and develop a supportive relationship with the employee. The Laissez-Faire leadership style involves little consideration of the employee and the work tasks. They provide little to no direction and support to perform. (b) My action plan is to find a collaborator with the employee and support him in what he really wants, as much better work performance as possible. I encourage you to motivate them to work hard and help increase their self-confidence with their achievements. 8. (a) Situational leadership is a leadership model that selects from four different leadership styles that have tailored their ability to be most effective to the employee's work behavior and relational behavior. (b) The phases of situational leadership are telling, selling, delegating, participating. Telling is the leader's concern for the task and has no relationship