QUESTION $1$

Ryan the Managing director at Rock Bottom $($Pvt$)$ Limited uses the democratic leadership style. His other attributes are self$-$management, an $$abundance mentality$$ while promoting an egalitarian environment of no threat, no fear and no group think mentality as he believe these inhibit innovation. He is also a team player and believe in multi$-$tasking within a participative leadership style. Employees are however failing to meet the set targets due to lack of job satisfaction. Of late the level of absenteeism has been astronomically high despite giving them too much room to manouvre.$$

Discuss the effectiveness of adopting the democratic leadership style to an organisation such as Rock Bottom $($Pvt$)$ Limited. $[25$ marks$]$