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Based
on late 40's publication of Ohio state university,
the wide accepted model of describing of leaders
behavior is based on two dimension: relation
toward task and relation toward employee. The
leadership style depends on current situation
and individual.
Relation
toward the task is dealing mostly with one-way
communication, focused on telling and directing
how the things should be done. On the other side,
the relation toward the employee includes two way
communication, encouragement, support, rewarding,
discussion and assistance. Combined together these
two relationships are creating the leadership
matrix.
Four
quadrants from this models shows leadership styles
that leaders use. Style 1 is focused
on directive approach and strict supervision.
Style 2 has similarities with S1, but at same time
the leader spend more time on conversation with
employee. When in Style 3 the leader mostly
listen, talk to and gives the support to follower.
The Style 4 doesn’t involve leader much, but
transfer the task completely to the follower (
delegation ).
During
the initial research on the Ohio university, there
was attempt to prove that S2 is the most
effective. The study has shown that other
three styles are effective as well. Therefore the
leadership concept was expanded to application of
all four styles, for every situation.
Consequently, the concept was called the
Situational leadership. Followers of this
leadership approach tell that leaders should be
able to perform a different leadership styles,
according he situation. The decisive factor for
application of a certain leadership style is the
readiness (maturity) of the follower for the given task. The
employees’ readiness is key factor.
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