Behavioral Approach
These are the two broad categories of leader behavior emphasized by the Behavioral Approach.
What are task behaviors and relationship behaviors?
These two characteristics determine a follower’s development level in Situational Leadership.
What are competence and commitment?
This motivation theory provides the foundation for Path-Goal Theory.
What is Expectancy Theory?
This LMX term describes the relationship between a leader and an individual follower.
What is a dyad?
This approach examines what leaders do and how they act, especially through task and relationship behaviors.
What is the Behavioral Approach?
This tool helps to identify and describe a leader's behavioral leadership style.
What is the Blake-Mouton Leadership Style Grid?
The leadership-style that should be implemented to best match a D2 follower.
What is the S2, Coaching style?
These are the four leader behaviors identified in Path-Goal Theory.
What are directive, supportive, participative, and achievement-oriented leadership?
These are the three phases of leadership making, in order.
What are stranger, acquaintance, and mature partnership?
This theory argues that leaders should adapt their behavior to a follower’s competence and commitment for a particular task.
What is Situational Leadership?
This Blake-Mouton Leadership Grid style emphasizes a comfortable, friendly workplace and employees’ interpersonal needs while giving considerably less attention to productivity.
What is 1,9 Country Club?
Cameron is excited to lead campus tours but has never led one and does not know the route or required information. This development level best describes Cameron for the task.
What is D1, low competence and high commitment?
Employees implementing a new process do not know which forms to use, who handles each step, or when work is due. This Path-Goal behavior would be most appropriate.
What is directive leadership?
This leadership-making phase describes interactions limited primarily to assigned job responsibilities and formal workplace expectations.
What is the stranger phase?
This theory best explains why clarifying expectations, deadlines, and procedures can increase the motivation of employees who are uncertain about a new assignment.
What is Path-Goal Theory?
This Blake-Mouton Leadership Grid style is demonstrated by a manager who closely monitors productivity, sets demanding performance standards, gives precise instructions, and pays little attention to employees’ concerns or participation.
What is 9,1 Authority-Compliance? The leader shows high concern for production and low concern for people.
An employee knows the basics of new software but has encountered problems, become discouraged, and still needs help mastering procedures. This leadership style best fits the employee’s development level.
What is S2 Coaching? The employee needs substantial direction to build competence and substantial support for declining commitment.
Employees know their jobs well, but the work is repetitive, stressful, and unpleasant. This Path-Goal behavior addresses the situation by showing concern and creating a more positive work environment.
What is supportive leadership?
A supervisor gives an employee responsibilities beyond the normal role, shares additional information, and seeks the employee’s opinions as the broader relationship is tested. This leadership-making phase is represented.
What is the acquaintance phase? The expanding exchanges show that the relationship is moving beyond the formal employment contract.
This theory best explains a highly trusting leader-follower relationship involving additional responsibility, greater information sharing, mutual influence, and shared organizational goals.
What is Leader-Member Exchange Theory?
These are the two Blake-Mouton Leadership Grid styles represented when Manager A achieves productivity through close control and a primary focus on production, while Manager B sustains high performance through participation, trust, and employee commitment.
What are 9,1 Authority-Compliance for Manager A and 9,9 Team for Manager B?
Morgan has five years of department experience and independently handles budgeting but has never developed a social media campaign. Morgan is excited about the new task. This task-specific development level corrects the supervisor’s mistaken claim that tenure automatically makes Morgan D4.
What is D1 for the social media campaign? Development level is task-specific; Morgan has low competence with this task and high commitment.
A leader gives a highly capable team a goal above its previous performance, emphasizes excellence, and communicates confidence in the team. This Path-Goal behavior, not directive leadership, is being demonstrated.
What is achievement-oriented leadership? The clues are the challenging goal, emphasis on excellence, and confidence in follower ability.
Informal relationships with only a few team members give those employees greater access to upcoming projects and professional development. This potential problem associated with LMX is illustrated.
What is unequal access to information, opportunities, resources, and support?
An inexperienced but enthusiastic employee receives specific instructions for a new task. One of these theories interprets the behavior as S1 matched to D1, while the other interprets it as clarifying expectations and procedures.
What are Situational Leadership and Path-Goal Theory? Situational Leadership focuses on matching behavior to follower development; Path-Goal Theory focuses on providing what followers or the task environment need.