Influences affecting the leadership style choice

• Forces on the leader - Their knowledge skills attitudes, experiences backgrounds, values, goals for himself, goals for the group, confidence in the employees, convictions about style and their choice of style, pressures from outside the group, time, resources, personality, sensitivity, and weight of responsibility.
• Forces on the group - Combination of personalities, values, expectations, willingness, the ability to make decisions, individual needs, the group needs, interest, competition, confidence, resources, workload, spirit, communication, and fatigue.
• Forces on the situation - Time, restraints of the organization, environment, size or duration of the job, conflict of goals, emergencies, hazards, desirability of the task, justice, legality, removal or lack of alternatives.