Style Approach Leadership

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Style Approach to LeadershipNancy Hueske and C. Nicholas Morris

+LeadershipDefined by Northouse

A process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal

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Leadership Involves

Influence leader + follower

Group

Power Personal Position Coercive

Goals

+ 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

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Focuses on the behavior of the leader

Focuses on what leaders “do” and how they “act”

Researchers studying this approach agree that there are two general kinds of behaviors

Task behaviorsFacilitate goal accomplishments

Relationship behaviorsHelp subordinates feel comfortable with themselves and others

Style Approach

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Ohio State University in 1940’s based on Stogdill’s work in 1948.

This study analyzed leaders in their environment and then provided a questionnaire to the subordinates that evaluated how often a leader engaged in certain types of behavior

University of Michigan in 1940’s

Blake and Mouton (1964, 1978, and 1985)

Research on Style Approach

+Leadership Grid

Concern for productionOrganizational tasksSales volumeWork loadPolicy decisions

Concern for peopleBuilding commitment and trustPromoting personal worth of employeeGood working conditionsFair salary structureGood social relations

+Leadership Grid

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Authority-Compliance ManagementHeavy emphasis on task and jobLess emphasis on peoplePeople are just tools to get job doneResults drivenLeader tends to be controlling, demanding, and hard-driving

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Country Club ManagementLow concern for task accomplishmentHigh concern for interpersonal relationshipsLeaders make sure the personal and social needs of followers are metLeader creates a positive environment by being

agreeable  

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Impoverished ManagementLeader is unconcerned with task and interpersonal relationshipsLeader is uninvolved and withdrawnLittle contact between leader and followersLeader is indifferent, noncommittal, and apathetic

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Middle-of-the-Road ManagementLeader is a compromiserIntermediate concern for task and people performing the taskLeader avoids conflictPromotion of intermediate production levels and

interpersonal skills  

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Team ManagementStrong emphasis on both tasks and interpersonal relationshipsPromotes participation and teamworkLeader makes priorities clear, follows through, and is open-minded

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Blake and his colleagues have identified two styles that identify multiple aspects of the grid

Paternalism / MaternalismUses both Authority-Compliance and Country Club Management stylesThese styles are at opposite ends of the gridBenevolent Dictator - acts graciously for the purpose of goal accomplishment

Opportunism Uses any combination of the five styles for personal advancement

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How Does Style Approach Work?

Provides framework for assessing leadership behaviors in a broad and general way

Offers a way to look at leadership behavior by sub-dividing it into the two dimensions

Reminds leaders that their impact occurs through both the tasks they perform and the relationships they create

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Strengths•Easily applied•Studies on leadership style validate and give credibility to the approach•Approach applies to everything a leader does

Weakness•Inconsistency in relationship behaviors and outcomes•Implies most effective leadership is high-high style

Five Steps to EquipEncourage them to serveQualify them to serveUnderstand their needsInstruct themPray for them

Style Approach is leader-centered

It does not address the training or development of future leaders from the group of followers

Concern for people

Only to meet an organizational goal

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Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the RingCouncil of Elrond

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Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the RingCouncil of Elrond

+Elrond Paternalism / Maternalism Style of Management

+BoromirOpportunism Style of Management

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Legolas - Elf

Gimli - Dwarf

Aragorn - Human

A descendant of the lost line of the ancient kings of Men

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Country Club Style of ManagementThe Hobbits: Frodo, Sam, Merry, Pippin

+ Gandolf the Grey

9,9 Team Management

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Sam & Frodo

Committed to the mission to the end

Servant Leadership

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AragornServant Leader

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“Your character is reflected by every decision you make and every relationship

you establish.”

Andy Stanley, 157

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Application of Style Approach

Step One: Identify your leadership style

Step Two: Identify areas of improvement and develop your leadership skills

Step Three: Put the Leadership Grid in context

+Application in Ministry

Theatre Arts: acting, directing, writing, productions

Visual Arts: sets, design, displays, decor

Brainstorming and Programming

Consultant to Children and Student Ministries

Coordination with Technical Arts andCommunications

Main Responsibilities Other Areas

Director of Creative Arts Ministry

+Application in Ministry

Concern for people

Develop skills

Build relationships

Create Community

Final production outcome

Task oriented

Sporadic volunteer time

Inconsistent volunteer rate

Helping hands mentality

Experts in field

Final product outcome

Theatre Arts Visual Arts

Director of Creative Arts Ministry

+ReferencesBlanchard, Ken and Hodges, Phil, Lead Like Jesus. Thomas Nelson Inc., Nashville, Tennessee. 2005 Northouse, Peter G., Leadership Theory and Practice. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California. 2007 Wilkes, Gene, Jesus on Leadership. Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Wheaton, Illinois. 1998 http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_73.htm

www.lordoftherings.net

Stanley, Andy, The Next Generation Leader.Multnomah Publishers, Inc. Sisters, Oregon. 2003

Hybels, Bill, Courageous Leadership.Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 2002