Osobowość autorytarna a dowodzenie

Institutions of clear hierarchic organisational structure, particularly those of total character, face an important problem: how to command subordinates so as to ensure their subjectivity and not to lose the effectiveness of achieving organisational tasks in a democratic social environment. The compulsion that has recently dominated superiors’ activities towards their subordinates is not working in modern organisations. The era of authoritarianism is finishing, also in the armed forces. Superiors of authoritarian personality are not apt to fulfil social roles connected with commanding. In modern organisations people of high social competency and high moral values play these roles. They are viewed by subordinates not as individuals who tend to achieve their personal advantages, who limit and punish, but as people who exert influence in order to support others and ensure success, at least partially.