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This 4 page paper provides an overview of one classic article in situational leadership and one current article. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the authors define leadership as "the process of influencing the activities of an individual or a group in efforts toward goal accomplishment" (Hersey, Blanchard and Natemeyer,1979, p. 418). The
end goal is key to this perspective, because leadership seeks out methods to bring individual into complicity with a set of goals, whether through active direction or through two-way communications
devised to facilitate specific action. Hersey, Blanchard and Natemeyer (1979) report that there are seven essential power bases
from which leaders define their capacity to alter the behaviors of others, listed as coercive, connection, expert, information, legitimate, referent and reward powers. There are four styles of leader,
telling, selling, participating and delegating, and understanding these is linked to the types of leadership or relational behaviors that are used. Task behavior refers to the actions of the
leader in directing the task, in telling individuals what to do, when to do it and what the expected outcomes are. Relationship behavior is when leaders engage in back
and forth communications and listen to the input of others, providing support and facilitating the behaviors to reach necessary goals (Hersey, Blanchard and Natemeyer (1979).
This situational leadership model is a variation of contingency theory and does "not prescribe a single leadership style, but identifies the three essential elements of task behavior, relationship
behavior and ... level of maturity" (Monoky, 1998, p. 142). The product of this is the development of four possible styles of communication and of directing task accomplishment.
This model provides for variation in task complexity and recognizes the importance of the relationships between workers and managers (Truckenbrodt, 2000). An example of a high task - low
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