Leadership Examination

  Include the following in your paper: • Describe at least three different types of behavioral leadership approaches. • Select a prominent leader and identify their dominant leadership style. Provide examples to justify your selection. • Explain the two Situational Leadership Approaches (the Fiedler contingency leadership model and the path-goal leadership model). • Analyze their potential advantages over the behavioral leadership approaches. • Explore the uses of Transformational Leadership, including the idea that the best leaders are both transactional and transformational. • Assess the four key behaviors of transformational leaders for inspiring employees. Resources: Ch.12 and 14 of Management Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word paper outlining key concepts of leadership. Include the following in your paper: • Describe at least three different types of behavioral leadership approaches. • Select a prominent leader and identify their dominant leadership style. Provide examples to justify your selection. • Explain the two Situational Leadership Approaches (the Fiedler contingency leadership model and the path-goal leadership model). • Analyze their potential advantages over the behavioral leadership approaches. • Explore the uses of Transformational Leadership, including the idea that the best leaders are both transactional and transformational. • Assess the four key behaviors of transformational leaders for inspiring employees. • Learn: Ch. 12: Motivating Employees • Learn: Ch. 14: Power, Influence, & Leadership Page 451 Behavioral Approaches: Do Leaders Show Distinctive Patterns of Behavior? Do effective leaders behave in similar ways? THE BIG PICTURE Behavioral leadership approaches try to determine unique behaviors displayed by effective leaders. These approaches can be divided into four categories, the first three of which are discussed in this section: (1) task-oriented behavior, (2) relationship-oriented behavior, (3) passive behavior, and (4) transformational behavior (discussed in Section 14.5). Maybe what’s important to know about leaders is not their personality traits but rather their patterns of behavior. This is the line of thought pursued by those interested in behavioral leadership approaches, which attempt to determine the unique behaviors displayed by effective leaders. These approaches can be divided into four categories: Task-oriented behavior Relationship-oriented behavior Passive behavior Transformational behavior (discussed in Section 14.5)