Behavioural Approaches-Theories of Leadership
A) Closely associated with Human Relations School.
B) Under scientific management, leadership is of an authoritarian style:
- leader centralizes control and relies on legitimate, reward and coercive power.
C) Behavioural studies illustrated the value of democratic style:
- leader delegates authority, encourages participation, and relies on expert and referent power.
D) But further studies have demonstrated leadership to be more complex than merely being somewhere on the continuum between authoritarian and democratic.