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Understanding the Style Approach to Leadership

The Style Approach in leadership focuses on the behaviors of leaders, specifically task and relationship behaviors, to influence subordinates towards achieving goals. Research from the Ohio State Studies and University of Michigan Studies identified key leader behaviors such as initiating structure and consideration, as well as employee and production orientations. Additionally, Blake and Mouton's Managerial Grid outlines various leadership styles, including paternalism and opportunism.

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Understanding the Style Approach to Leadership

The Style Approach in leadership focuses on the behaviors of leaders, specifically task and relationship behaviors, to influence subordinates towards achieving goals. Research from the Ohio State Studies and University of Michigan Studies identified key leader behaviors such as initiating structure and consideration, as well as employee and production orientations. Additionally, Blake and Mouton's Managerial Grid outlines various leadership styles, including paternalism and opportunism.

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LEADERSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE SIXTH EDITION

Style Approach

Chapter 4
LEADERSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE SIXTH EDITION 2

Trait approach
Skill approach

Style approach
-focuses exclusively on what leaders
do and how they act.
Northouse - Leadership Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition © 2012 SAGE Publications, Inc.
LEADERSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE SIXTH EDITION 3

Style approach composed two general kinds of behaviors

Task Behaviour

Relationship Behaviour

Central purpose of this approach is to explain how leaders


combine these two kinds of behaviors to influence subordinates in
their efforts to reach a goal

Northouse - Leadership Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition © 2012 SAGE Publications, Inc.
LEADERSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE SIXTH EDITION 4

The Ohio State Studies


●A questionnaire constructed 1800 items
and 150 questions-LBDQ
● Researcher found two general types of
leader behavior
Initiating behavior
organizing work, , work context, role responsibilities
and scheduling work activities
Consideration
Building camaraderie, respect, trust liking between
leader and follower
Northouse - Leadership Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition © 2012 SAGE Publications, Inc.
LEADERSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE SIXTH EDITION 5

The University of Michigan Studies


 Research at Michigan identified two types of
leadership
● Employee orientation
approach subordinates with a strong human
relations emphasis
● Production Orientation
Stress the technical and production aspect

Northouse - Leadership Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition © 2012 SAGE Publications, Inc.
LEADERSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE SIXTH EDITION 6

Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid

Northouse - Leadership Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition © 2012 SAGE Publications, Inc.
LEADERSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE SIXTH EDITION 7

Blake and his colleagues have identified


two other styles

 Paternalism/Maternalism
(9.1) (1.9)

 Opportunism

Northouse - Leadership Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition © 2012 SAGE Publications, Inc.
LEADERSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE SIXTH EDITION 8

How does the style approach work?


 Strengths

 Criticism

 Application

Northouse - Leadership Theory and Practice, Sixth Edition © 2012 SAGE Publications, Inc.

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