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Leader and Follower Behaviors & Perspectives
Learning Objective 1: Explain the trait approach to leadership.
Learning Objective 2: Differentiate between Fred Fiedler's Contingency Theory and Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard's Situational Leadership Theory as situational approaches to leadership.
Learning Objective 3: Understand the similarities and differences between Chester Barnard's Functions of the Executive and Kenneth Benne and Paul Sheats' Classification of Functional Roles in Groups as functional approaches to leadership.
Learning Objective 4: Compare and contrast Robert Blake and Jane Mouton's Managerial Grid and George Graen's Leader-Member Exchange Theory as relational approaches to leadership.
Learning Objective 5: Explain James MacGregor Burns' Transformational Approach to leadership.
Quesiton 1. Fill out the Least Preferred Coworker Scale. After completing the measure, what did you learn about your own approach to leadership? According to Contingency Theory, what leadership situations will you succeed in and what leadership situations will you need to alter either the situation or your own leadership behavior?
Quesiton 2. Looking at Blake and Mouton's Managerial Grid, which type of leadership style do you respond best to? Why do you think you respond best to this leadership style? Do you think you lead others in this fashion? Why or why not?
Quesiton 3. Create a list of at least five transactional leaders and five transformational leaders. What differences do you see between these two lists and the types of organizational accomplishments they've had?