1 What impact is leadership style likely to have on communication and employee participation? A few years ago the results of a survey of 200 chief executives, chairmen and directors of companies in the UK, Germany and France, conducted by MORI for international HR consultancy DDI, showed that there were differences in national attitudes to responsibility, status and decision-

making:

● The French senior executive enjoys autonomy in the job expressed as freedom to make decisions with the minimum of interference. On this dimension the Germans and the British are less concerned.