The Ohio State Leadership Studies

Defined leader consideration and initiating-structure Laid foundation for situational models:
behaviors as independent dimensions of leadership
Tannenbaum and Schmidt’s Leadership
Most common forms of leader behavior: Continuum

- Consideration behavior
Involves being concerned with subordinates’
feelings and respecting subordinates’ ideas

- Initiating-structure behavior
Involves clearly defining the leader-
subordinate roles so that the subordinates
know what is expected of them

The LPC Theory of Leadership

- by Fred Friedler
- attempts to explain and reconcile both the
leader’s personality and the complexities of
the situation
- suggests that a leader’s effectiveness
depends on the situation

Task versus Relationship Motivation

 Task motivation- job-centered and initiating-

structure leader behavior
The Leadership Grid  Relationship motivation- employee-centered
and consideration leader behavior

Least preferred co-worker scale

- Measures the degree of task or

relationship motivation
- Says more about the leader than the
least preferred co-worker
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The Emergence of Situational Leadership

Models

 Leader-behavior theories
- played an important role in
development of more realistic and
complex, approaches
- the trait approach vs. the behaviors

 Failed to identify consistent relationships

between leader behaviors and employee
responses
 Situational models -appropriate behavior
varies from one situation to another