Week 9-10_Additional Leadership Styles

the single most effective style.

The Transformational Leadership Style Is often identified as?

Bernard M. Bass.

The Transformational Leadership Style was first described during the late 1970s and later expanded upon by researcher ——

The Transformational Leadership Style

Some of the key characteristics of his style of leadership are the abilities to motivate and inspire followers and to direct positive changes in groups.

The Transformational Leadership Style

• tend to be emotionally intelligent, energetic, and passionate.

• They are not only committed to helping the organization achieve its goals, but also to helping group members fulfill their potential.

The Transformational Leadership Style

Research has revealed that this style of leadership resulted in higher performance and improved group satisfaction than other leadership styles.

leader-follower relationship as a transaction

The transactional leadership style views the?.

The Transactional Leadership Style

focuses on the follower completing required tasks in exchange for monetary compensation.

The Transactional Leadership Style

main advantage of this leadership style is that it creates clearly defined roles.

The Transactional Leadership Style

allows leaders to offer a great deal of supervision and direction if it's needed

The Transactional Leadership Style

Group members may also be motivated t perform well to receive rewards.

▪ Hersey and Blanchard's leadership styles

▪ Blanchard's SLII leadership styles

Situational Leadership Styles

2 types

Hersey and Blanchard's model

is one of the best-known situational theories.

• Telling style

• Selling style

• Participating style

• Delegating style

Hersey and Blanchard's model this describes four primary styles of leadership, including:

telling style

WHAT STYLE: is characterized by telling people what to do.

selling style

WHAT STYLE:involves leaders convincing followers to buy into their ideas and messages.

participating style

WHAT STYLE: is marked by allowing group members to take a more active role in the decision-making process.

delegating style

WHAT SYTLE: involves taking a hands-off approach to leadership and allowing group members to make the majority of decisions.

• Directing Style

• Coaching Style

• Supporting Style

• Delegating Style

Blanchard also described four different learning styles, including:

directing style

WHAT STYLE: involves giving orders and expecting obedience but offers little in the way of guidance and assistance.

coaching style

WHAT STYLE; means giving lots of orders, but leaders also give lots of support.

supporting style

WHAT STYLE: is an approach that offers plenty of help, but very little direction.

delegating style

WHAT STYLE: is low in both direction and support

Behavioral theories

leadership is based on the belief that great leaders are made, not born.

• Consider it the flip-side of the Great Man theories

Behavioral theories

focuses on the actions of leaders, not on mental qualities or internal states. .

Behavioral theories

people can learn to become leaders through teaching and observation

Participative Theories

suggest that the ideal leadership style is one that takes the input of others into account.

Participative Theories

encourage participation and contributions from group members and help group members feel more relevant and committed to the decision-making process.

• In participative theories, however, the leader retains the right to allow the input of others.

transactional theories

Management Theories also known as

Management Theories

focus on the role of supervision, organization and group performance.

Management Theories

These theories base leadership on a system of rewards and punishments.

transformational theories

Relationship Theories also known as

Relationship Theories

focus upon the connections formed between leaders and followers

Relationship Theories

motivate and inspire people by helping group members see the importance and higher good of the task.

Relationship Theories

focused on the performance of group members, but also want each person to fulfill his or her potential.

Relationship Theories

Leaders with this style often have high ethical and moral standards.