Styles approach to leadership

Question 1

What is the style approach to leadership?

Answer 1

focuses exclusively on what leaders do and how they act

Question 2

what are the 2 types of behaviors exemplified in the styles approach to leadership

Answer 2

Task behaviors and relationship behaviors

Question 3

What are task behaviors

Answer 3

Help facilitate goal accomplishment: the help group members achieve their objectives

Question 4

What are relationship behaviors

Answer 4

They help subordinates feel comfortable with themselves, with each other, and with the situation they find themselves in.

Question 5

What are the parts of Blake and Mouton’s Managerial (leadership) grid?

Answer 5

(9,1) Authority compliance
(1,9) Country-club management
(1,1) Impoverished Management
(9,9) Team management
(5,5) Middle of the road management

Question 6

What is Authority compliance

Answer 6

Places heavy emphasis on task and job requirements, and less emphasis on people, except to the extent that people are tools for getting the job done.

Question 7

What is Country Club management

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Impoverished Management

Answer 8

Unconcerned with both the task with interpersonal relationships

Question 9

Team Management

Answer 9

Strong emphasis on both tasks and interpersonal relationships

Question 10

What is paternalism/materialism

Answer 10

Uses both (9,1) Authority compliance & (1,9) Country-club management but does not integrate the 2.

Question 11

what is opportunism

Answer 11

refers to a leader who uses any combination of the basic five styles for the purpose of personal advancement

Question 12

What are the strengths to the style approach of leadership?

Answer 12

• Expands on how leaders act vs just characteristics
• wide range of studies on leadership style validates and gives credibility
• research indicates that leadership styles consist of to major types of behaviors; task and relationship
• it is heuristic

Question 13

What are the weaknesses of the style approach to leadership?

Answer 13

• research has not adequately shown how leaders’ styles are associated with performance outcomes
• this approach has failed to find a universal style of leadership that could be effective in almost every situation.
• implies that most effective leadership is a high-high style but may not always be necessarily true.