Leadership Styles
Authority-Compliance
High task, low relationship
Where were the most important studies about leadership behavior conducted?
Ohio State & University of Michigan
What leadership assessment goes with the behavioral approach?
LBQ
Country-Club Management
High relationship, low task
Who researched leadership behavior?
Blake & Mouton
Strengths of behavioral leadership
-major shift in leadership research from trait to behaviors and actions
-broad range of studies on leadership style validates and gives credibility
- provided simplified concept of how leader behaves with two major types of behaviors: task and relationship
Impoverished Management
Low relationship, low task
What methods have researchers used to investigate leadership behavior?
asked followers to identify the number of times their leaders engaged in certain types of behaviors
Who got their car broken into last week?
Kristen
Middle-of-the-road management
Middle relationship, middle task
How do Ohio State and the University of Michigan research findings differ?
Ohio State saw task and relationship as being on two independent continuums. Michigan saw task and relationship as being opposite ends of the same continuum.
Who's TV fell over and broke
Alex
Team management
High task, high relationship
What do Ohio State and the University of Michigan research findings have in common?
Leaders generally demonstrate behaviors in one of two areas: task and relationship
criticisms of the behavioral approach
- no universal style of leadership that could be effective in almost every situation
- implies that the most effective leadership style is high task -high relationship
- behavioral approach research is US centric and limited
- research on leader behavior/style performance is inconclusive