Chapter 4: Behavioural Approach

Question 1

What are the 2 general behaviours of the style approach?

Answer 1

1) Task Behaviours

2) Relationship Behaviours

Question 2

What is the focus of the behavioural approach?

Answer 2

Focuses exclusively on what leaders do and how they act.

Question 3

What do task behaviours do?

Answer 3

Facilitate goal accomplishment and help group members achieve objectives.

Question 4

Which general behaviour helps subordinate to feel comfortable with themselves, each others, and situations?

Answer 4

Relationship behaviours

Question 5

Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Leadership Grid was designed to explain what 2 factors of leaders’ purposes?

Answer 5

• Concern for production

- Concern for people

Question 6

Define paternalism/materialism.

Answer 6

Reward and approval are bestowed on people in return for loyalty and obedience; failure to comply leads to punishment.

Question 7

What does the “benevolent dictator” do?

Answer 7

Acts gracious for purpose of goal accomplishment.

Question 8

What dies opportunism ignore?

Answer 8

The wellbeing of the followers

Question 9

Define opportunism.

Answer 9

People adapt and shift to any grid style needed to gain maximum advantage (selfish gain)

Question 10

What is the main focus of the behaviour approach?

Answer 10

Primarily a framework for assessing leadership as behaviour with a task and relationship dimension.