Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard has developed the situational model of leadership.

Maturity of employees is the variable in which this theory lays emphasis on. This theory requires adjusting leaders emphasis on followers or employees on task behaviours and relationship behaviour. This is also known as Contingency theory

S1 Telling S2 Selling S3 Participating S4 Delegating

I. Assessing Maturity is a difficult task. II.Leader has to be highly Flexible. III.Treating different employees differently.