Management & Leadership at Coca cola company

9.0 Management Styles

A management style is an overall method of leadership used by the manager. The success that the management team at Coca-Cola has in motivating its employees to meet their objectives is based on the management style they adopt. There are three main management styles democratic, autocratic and the laissez-faire style.

The Coca-Cola Company uses the following management styles, but each one in different departments. There are three main types of management styles used in businesses:

9.1 Democratic

The democratic leadership style consists of the leader, sharing the decision making abilities with the group members by promoting the interests of the group members and by practicing social equality.

This emphasizes on group agreements to generate new ideas. There are two types of democratic management styles; democratic and consultative democratic. Democratic is where all the managers, junior managers and employees are involved in the ideas and final decision process. Out of all the workers, no-one has a higher level than the others in this management style.

Democratic style is the management style that Coca-Cola adopts. This sort of management style involves empowerment. In this management style individuals and teams are given responsibilities and decisions to make, usually within a given framework. If anything wrong happens then the individuals and teams are then held responsible for the decisions that are chosen. With this type of management style it allows the manager to feel comfortable with other people in the organization making some of the decisions. Democratic managers will often want feedback from their employees on decisions being made. Democratic leaders listen and act on the opinions of the group. This type of management is good as it makes the employees happy and productivity is high. This is a very good method because employee's thoughts and suggestions are listened to by the business. This makes the employees seem as if they are respected and that their thoughts are valid.
Feedbacks from managers at Coca-Cola’s bottling system across the globe provide vital information that is incorporated in their strategies.