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Behavioral Approach to Leadership

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Module Objectives

At the end of this module, you should be

able to:

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Define the behavioral approach to organizational leadershipExamine your previous leadership experiences and discuss whether they included components of the behavioral approach

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The Behavioral Approach to Leadership

•What behaviors make leaders most effective ?–Task oriented behaviors•assigning work activities and redesigning jobs–People oriented, or relational, behaviors•showing respect and support for followers “the most effective leadership results when managersexhibit high levels of both task oriented and people oriented behaviors.”

Bratton, Grint, & Nelson (2005) Organizational Leadership

The Behavioral Approach

• Emphasizes the behavior of the leader
• Focuses on what leaders do and how they act
• Task behaviors

• Relationship behaviors

• Central purpose of the Behavioral Approach “is to explain how leaders combine these two kinds of behaviors to influence followers in their efforts to reach a goal.”

Northouse, P.G. (2019), Leadership Theory and Practice, Eighth Ed.

Blake & Mouton’s

Leadership Grid

Designed “to explain how leaders help organizations to reach their purposes through two factors: concern for production and concern for people.”

Bratton, Grint, & Nelson (2005) Organizational Leadership Northouse, P.G. (2019), Leadership Theory and Practice, Eighth Ed

Leadership Styles from the Leadership Grid

• Authority Compliance (9,1)

• Country Club Management (1,9)

• Impoverished Management (1,1)

• Middle of the Road Management (5,5)

• Team Management (9,9)

Northouse, P.G. (2019), Leadership Theory and Practice, Eighth Ed.

Authority Compliance Leadership Style

• Places heavy emphasis on task and job requirements

• Communicating with followers is not emphasized

• Style is result driven

• The leader is often seen as controlling, demanding, hard driving, and overpowering

Northouse, P.G. (2018), Leadership Theory and Practice, Eighth Ed.

Country Club Management Leadership Style

• Low concern for task accomplishment coupled with a high concern for interpersonal relationships

• Stress the attitudes and feelings of people, making sure the personal and social needs of followers are met

• Try to create a positive climate by being agreeable, eager to help, comforting, and uncontroversial

Northouse, P.G. (2019), Leadership Theory and Practice, Eighth Ed.

Impoverished Management Leadership Style

Could be described as:

• Indifferent

• Noncommittal

• Resigned

• Apathetic

Northouse, P.G. (2019), Leadership Theory and Practice, Eighth Ed.

Middle of the Road Management

• Leaders who are compromisers

• Often described as “one who is expedient, prefers the middle ground, soft pedals disagreement, and swallows convictions in the interest of ‘progress

Northouse, P.G. (2019), Leadership Theory and Practice, Eighth Ed.

Team Management Leadership Style

• Strong emphasis on both tasks and interpersonal relationships

• Promotes a high degree of participation and teamwork

Northouse, P.G. (2019), Leadership Theory and Practice, Eighth Ed.

Other Leadership Styles

• Paternalism/Maternalism

• Opportunism

Northouse, P.G. (2019), Leadership Theory and Practice, Eighth Ed.

SUMMARY

Behavioral Approach to Leadership

• Provides a practical framework for assessing leadership in a broad way

• Comprised of task and relationship dimensions

Northouse, P.G. (2019), Leadership Theory and Practice, Eighth Ed.

Northouse, P.G. (2019), Leadership Theory and Practice, Eighth Ed.,

References

• Bratton, J., Grint, K., & Nelson, D.L. (2005) Organizational Leadership, Thomson Southwestern: Mason, Ohio

• Northouse, P.G., (2019) Leadership Theory and Practice, 8 Ed. Sage Publications, Inc.: Thousand Oaks, CA