Behavioral Theories

In proceed on peculiarity theories, researchers moved on to explore whether leaders displayed certain behaviors that made them effectual. This was mainly interesting to trainers, since if we could determine the main motive, then we could train everybody to be a leader by education them the behaviors. The most famed studies in this area were the Ohio circumstances studies, the University of Michigan studies, and Blake and Mouton's executive grid. All three of these studies showed that to be successful it was imperative for leaders to manage both the task and people fundamentals of the job. How- ever, another thing these approaches had in common was that while they provided a theoretical framework that is useful for many managers, they do not give us any answers we can directly apply to the workplace because they do not take the circumstances or rest of the group into account.