HROB 2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Organizational Commitment

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2010
• Professor: Elizabeth Kurucz

Document Summary

Facilitate goal accomplishment: they help group members to achieve. Help followers feel comfortable with themselves, others and the. The style approach emphasized the behavior of the leader, different from the trait approach, which emphasizes the personality characteristics of the leader. Focuses exclusively on what leaders do and how they act. Central purpose: to explain how leaders combine these two kinds of behaviors to influence followers in their efforts to reach a goal. Composed of 2 kinds of behaviors: task behaviors and relationship behaviors. Relationship behaviors: situation in which they find themselves. They had followers complete questionnaires about the number of times their leaders engaged in a certain behavior. Lbdq (leader behavior description questionnaire: questionnaire composed of. Initiating structure behaviors: task behaviors, including organizing work, giving structure to the work context, defining role responsibilities, and scheduling work activities. Consideration behaviors: relationship behaviors, including building camaraderie, respect, trust, and liking between leaders and followers.