Leadership Styles and Theories Quiz

Leadership Styles and Theories

• Leadership Traits Approach: Assumes leaders possess a set of inherent traits differentiating them from non-leaders.
• Leadership Behaviors Approach: Examines how leaders behave, contrasted by democratic and autocratic leadership styles.
  • Democratic-Autocratic Scale: Measures leadership styles ranging from authoritarian to participative.
    • Lewin, Lippitt, White: Researchers associated with this scale.
    • Tannenbaum & Schmidt: Notable contributors.
    • Task orientation-relationship orientation: Categorization of task-focused versus people-focused leadership styles.
    • Ohio State University model: Another model examining leadership behaviors.
    • Concern for people – concern for production: Measures leadership style emphasizing either people's needs or productivity.
  • Blake & Mouton: Managerial Grid: Another framework for leadership styles, relating concern for people with concern for production (e.g., Country Club, Team, Impoverished styles).

Contingency/Situational Approaches

• Path-Goal Theory: Leader behavior impacts subordinates' motivation to achieve goals. Contingencies include environmental factors (task, authority, work group) and subordinate factors(locus of control, experience, perceived ability).
• Contingency Theory (Fiedler): Leadership effectiveness depends on the situation's favourableness, determined by leader-member relations, task structure, and leader position power. Leader style is either task-oriented or relationship-oriented.
  • LPC (Least Preferred Co-worker) Scale: Used to measure a leader's preferred style.

Other Leadership Perspectives

• Substitutes for Leadership: Factors that reduce the need for a leader's intervention.
• Servant Leadership: A style emphasizes serving the needs of followers and empowering them.
• Transactional Leadership: Focuses on exchanging rewards for performance.
• Transformational Leadership: Stimulates, shifts and utilizes values, beliefs and needs of followers to achieve tasks, and strategic in thinking.

Test your knowledge on various leadership styles and theories, including the traits approach, behaviors approach, and frameworks like the Ohio State University model and the Managerial Grid. This quiz will challenge your understanding of how different leadership styles impact team dynamics and productivity.