Styles of leadership

1. Styles of Leadership:
Tannenbaum and Schmidt

2. Introduction
• Tannenbaum and Schmidt produced
one of the best known works in the
field of leadership style research in
the late 1950's through to the early
1970's.
• They called this work the Continuum
of Leadership Behaviour.

3. Concept of continuum.
• concept of the continuum(field)
recognizes that an appropriate
style of leadership depends on
situations and personalities.

4. Important Elements
Tannenbaum and Schmidt (1973) saw the
most important elements that might
influence a manager’s style along this
continuum as;

5. Important Elements
1. The forces operating in the manager’s personality,
including his or her value system, confidence in
subordinates, inclination toward leadership styles,
and feelings of security in uncertain situations;
2. Forces in subordinates that will affect the manager’s
behavior;
3. Forces in the situation, such as organization values
and traditions, how effectively subordinate work
as a unit, the nature of a problem and whether
authority to handle it can be safely delegated,
and the pressure of time.

6. Four (4) leadership style
• Ternnembaum and schmidt criticise leadership
style of White and Lippitt two (2) style of
leadership i.e autocratic and democratic style of
leadership later on laissez faire style
They proposed Four Leadership style
• The Autocratic:
• The Persuasive:
• The Consultative:
• The Democratic:

7. The Persuasive and The Consultative
• The Persuasive:
Take decision for the group without
discussion or consultation but believes that
people will obey them
• The Consultative:
Leader confers with the group members
before taking decision i.e advice and feeling
of the subordinates

8. Above discussion Shows
The theory places various styles
of leadership along a continuum of
potential leadership behaviors,
based on the degree of authority
exercised by the manager and the
degree of autonomy available to
followers in making decisions.

9. Four Main Styles
• The continuum shows the degree of
control that is retained by the leader.
There are four main styles typified by the
words:
• Tells(Autocratic)
• Sells(persuasive)
• Consults (Consultative) and
• Participate (Democratic)

10. Model

11. Factors
The researches found there were three factors that
influence the choice of a leadership style.
In summary they are:
1. The leaders own personality, beliefs, values
knowledge and experience and confidence in the
subordinate
2. The subordinates need for independence, ability
and readiness to take adhesions and rating of
the importance of the issue
3. The organisation's culture, pressures and
effectiveness

12. • Thanks