Charles Greene suggested that follower performance shapes the behaviors a leader engages in, such as consideration and structuring tasks. The document discusses how leadership is a reciprocal relationship between leaders and followers within a situational context. As leaders and followers fulfill their roles through continuous communication and interaction, they create a feedback loop where each influences the other. Greene explained this reciprocal nature, noting that individuals whose behavior positively reinforces another will themselves be rewarded.

1. Comment upon Charles Greene’s (1975) suggestion that follower performance may shape the
behavior (e.g., consideration and initiating structure) that the leader engages in.
Solution
Leadership theories explore the relationship between leaders, followers and situational factors.
Leaders and followers do not exist independent of one another. The presence of one is dependent
on the of the other. At the same time, each has a unique role to play. While leaders and followers
maintain distinctive roles, a leadership relationship is based on leader-follower reciprocity hence
generating a leadership system within a situational context. Reciprocity is based on expected
results of behaviors and actions. By fulfilling their respective roles, leaders and followers make
a feedback loop. This continuous communication and interaction drives leader-follower
reciprocity. As leaders and followers try to fulfill their roles towards achieving expected ends
within the parameters of their current situation, they make an interconnected mechanism where
cause and effect are difficult to differentiate from one another. Thus, leadership must be studied
as a system rather than a sum of individual parts. In his article, The Reciprocal Nature of
Influence between Leader and Subordinate, Greene explains that leaders and their followers
share mutual influence . Greene stated, “The expectation is that the individual whose behavior
causes another to be positively reinforced will in return be rewarded by the other.”