HROB 2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Trait Theory, History Of Marketing, Job Satisfaction
17 Oct 2017
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The style approach emphasizes the behaviour of the leader, this distinguishes it from the trait approach (chapter 2) which emphasizes the personality characteristics, and the skills approach (chapter 3), which emphasizes the leader"s capabilities. Researchers at the university of michigan were also exploring leadership behaviour, giving special attention to the impact of leaders" behaviours on the performance of small groups. The best-known model of managerial behaviour is the managerial grid which first appeared in the early 1960s and has been refined and revised several times. It was designed to explain how leaders help organizations to reach their purposes through two factors: concern for production, refers to how a leader is concerned with achieving organizational tasks. Impoverished management (1,1: middle-of-the-road management (5,5, team management (9,9) Is result driven and people are regarded as tools to that end. Is described as one who is expedient, prefers the middle ground, soft-pedals disagreements, and swallows convictions in the interest of progress.
