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Leadership Exercise 1-1
Personalizing Leadership
Behavior Theory
• Kurt Lewin (1939) identified 3 leadership
styles• Autocratic – tight control
• Democratic – Group participation in
decision-making
• Laissez-Faire – Hands off – low level of
activity by leader
1945 Ralph Stogdill Ohio State
Studies
• 1. Initiating Structure or Job Centered
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Try out own ideas
Encourage slow workers to work harder
Emphasize meeting deadlines
Meet at scheduled times
See that all are working to capacity
Very constraining
1945 Ralph Stogdill Ohio State
Studies
• 2. Showing Consideration or Employee
Centered
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Be helpful to people
Treat group members as equals
Be willing to make changes
Back up what people under you do
Do little things to make it pleasant to work
Not constraining
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Take a break
• When we come back we will complete
Exercise 2-1Ten Leadership Qualities –
How Do You Rate?
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Exercise 3-1
• Interpersonal Trust Scale
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Exercise 4-1
• Exercise 4-2
Influences on Leadership Styles
• 1. Influenced by experience, modeling others, and
formal training
• 2. An individual usually prefers the same style of
the leading and following
• 3.Leaders have been successful along all points of
the continuum.
• 4.there is no universally effective style of leading
• 5. On next page
Influences on Leadership Styles
• 5. Land styles of leading and styles of
following conflict, extra communication is
needed in the areas of:
• Decision-making
• Goals setting
• Communication