The document summarizes the style approach to leadership. The style approach focuses on two dimensions of leadership behavior: concern for tasks and concern for people. Researchers at Ohio State University and the University of Michigan developed the leadership grid that plots these two dimensions and identifies five common leadership styles within the grid. The styles range from an emphasis on tasks with little concern for people to an emphasis on interpersonal relationships with little concern for tasks. The style approach provides a framework for assessing broad leadership behaviors but has weaknesses in implying one high-high style is most effective and not addressing leadership development.

2. Style Approach to Leadership Nancy Hueske and C. Nicholas Morris

4. Leadership Involves Influence leader + follower Group Power Personal Position Coercive Goals

5. Trait Approach Skills Approach Focuses on identifying the innate qualities and characteristics possessed by leaders Skills approach focuses on three specific areas: Technical Human Conceptual

9. Leadership Grid

10. Leadership Grid

24. Elrond Paternalism / Maternalism Style of Management

25. Boromir Opportunism Style of Management

31. “ Your character is reflected by every decision you make and every relationship you establish.” Andy Stanley, 157

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