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L&I situational approach
1.3 Develop a range of leadership styles and judge when best to use them
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Business
Undergraduate 4
11/03/2007

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situational approach (Gillen)
Definition
leaders need to interact with their team in different ways in different situations (Gillen)
Term

action centred leadership (adair)

Definition
most appropriate action depends on relative priority of task needs, individual needs and group needs
Term
situational leadership (hersey & Blanchard)
Definition

most appropriate style depends on follower maturity / readiness level (willingess, ability, confidence) 

Term
leader behaviour
Definition
high                       Participating  S3     Selling  S2       
                             - share ideas         - explain decisions
                             and facilitate          and provide 
                             in decision              opportunity for  
                             making                  clarification
^
relationship            Delegating  S4       Telling S1
behaviour               - turn over             - provide specific 
(supportive            responsibility          instructions
behaviour)             for decisions           and closely supervise
v                           and implementation  performance

low                              <task behaviour >              high
                                    (guidance)

Term
follower readiness (hersey & Blanchard)
Definition
high           moderate    moderate        low
R4              R3             R2                  R1
able and     able but      unable but       unable and
willing or      unwilling     willing or          unwilling or
confident     or insecure  confident         insecure
    follower directed                leader directed
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evaluating contingency / situational approaches
Definition
positive
emphasize need for leader flexibility
encourage self awareness > emotional inteligence
provide basis for developing leaders

negative
may be seen as manipulative, unless handled with integrity
may create leader inconsistency > stressful for subordinates
requires intuition re variables (hard to measure in practice)
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