Which describes a disadvantage of ABC's current leadership style?

• A. Reduces documentation
• B. Improves speed of decisions
• C. Increases innovation
• D. Restricts creativity due to heavy bureaucracy

Answer: (D)

A leadership style that relies on heavy bureaucracy naturally creates many layers of approval, strict rules, and formal processes. That structure slows things down and makes people wary of proposing new ideas or taking risks, so creativity gets restricted. That’s the core disadvantage: it dampens employees’ initiative and stifles inventive thinking, which can also delay decisions and responses to change. The other options describe outcomes more associated with agile or empowering leadership—faster decisions and more innovation—so they aren’t the drawbacks in this context, and reducing documentation isn’t a direct, inherent disadvantage of a bureaucratic style.