HROB 2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Opportunism, Benevolent Dictatorship, High High

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

Document Summary

Focuses exclusively on what leaders do and how they act. Leadership is composed of two general kinds of behaviour: task behaviours. Help followers feel comfortable with themselves, with each others and. First studies were at ohio state university in the late 1940"s with the situaion. Analyzed how individuals acted when they were leading a group or an organizaion. Conducted by having follower"s complete quesionnaires about their leaders. The original quesionnaire used was constructed from over 1800 items describing diferent aspects of the leader behaviour: consisted of 150 quesions was formulated called the leader behaviour. The follower"s responses on the quesionnaire clustered around 2 general leadership behaviours: iniiaing structure. The two types of behaviours ideniied represent the core of the behavioural approach and are central to what leaders do: provide structure structure for followers, nurture them. Determining how a leader opimally mixes task and relaionship behaviours has been the central task for researchers. Ideniied two types of leadership: employee orientaion.