Term
| situational approach (Gillen) |
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Definition
| leaders need to interact with their team in different ways in different situations (Gillen) |
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Term
action centred leadership (adair) |
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Definition
| most appropriate action depends on relative priority of task needs, individual needs and group needs |
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Term
| situational leadership (hersey & Blanchard) |
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Definition
most appropriate style depends on follower maturity / readiness level (willingess, ability, confidence) |
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Term
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Definition
high Participating S3 Selling S2
- share ideas - explain decisions
and facilitate and provide
in decision opportunity for
making clarification
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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)
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Term
| follower readiness (hersey & Blanchard) |
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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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Term
| evaluating contingency / situational approaches |
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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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