Leadership Styles

What does the leadership styles focus on?

Behaviours

True or false : Before we would focus more on the traits of a leader and less on the behaviours?

True

True or false : Before we neglected the situation and context when it came to deciding if the leader had a good style of leaderhsip or not

True

True or false : Since the 1940s, focus has shifted from traits to behaviours?

True

Is “Style” hard to define?

Yes! Because everyone has theiur own style

Things that impacted the style of leadership

• Personnality of leader will have an impact

• You have to look at the group to see which style you will bring

• Look at the caracteristic of the organisation

• The reality of things

True or false : A good leader won’t only have 1 leadership style, it will change with the group and/or context?

True

What is the consideration style according to Stogdill et al. (1940s)

It’s a behaviour that the leader will put more time on the participants

Whar is the initiating structure style according to Stogdill et al. (1940s)

Where the leader has more attention on the task on hand

True or false : it’s important to have a balance between the consideration style and the initiating structure style?

True

What are the 4 style of leasership by Hersey and Blanchard model?

1. High focus on the task and low focus on the relationship

2. High focus on the task and high focus on the relationship 

3. Low focus on the task abd high focus on the relationship 

4. Low focus on the task and low focus on the relationships 

If you start a new leadership position in a new organisation which style of leadership will you use from the Hersay and Blanchard Model?

1. High focus on the task and lower focus on the relationship

According to DuBrin what is a long term leadership vision?

• Project that you have time to complete

• Less comunication because you have time and you trust the employees

• Less controle on the employees

• You’re more gonna communicate with emails then face to face because you have time

According to DuBin what is the short term leadership vision?

• Leader wants lots of feedback, because you want everyone to stay on task

• Tight control on the employees because you have a deadline

• You want quick results

• Leader spends a lot of time communicating with the employees

True or false : If you give overtime to your employee your have more of a transactionnal leader?

True!

True or false : A transformational leader is always evolving and will adapt to the situation?

True