Comproach To Leadership: The Behavioral Approach To Leadership

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The trait approach to leadership explains the presence of a particular set of personal qualities common to all the leaders: intelligence, energy, honesty and integrity, self-confidence, tolerance, and emotional maturity( George, Jones, 2012). This theory was a scientific base for the further implementation of recruitment, selection and promotion processes based on employee’s personal qualities (Miner, 2015). The trait concept is reflected in various programs evaluating business skills and development of employees. However, there is no such set of personal qualities, which are present in all of the effective leaders. There is strong evidence in favor of the fact that different situations require different skills and qualities. The leader’s personal …show more content…

According to the behavioral approach to leadership, efficiency is not determined by the personal qualities of the leader, but rather their manner of behavior towards the subordinates. The behavioral theory presumes that leader affects their employees’ actions, and subsequently manipulates the workplace. Thus, we can outline the similarity between the trait and behavioral approaches – they both focus solely on the leader, while completely disregarding his employees. Both theories state that leader must operate according to what is acceptable to them and must behave in the way that makes sense to them and creates a comfortable work environment only for themselves (Miner, 2015). According to these concepts, employees are expected to adapt to their manager’s personal qualities and his/her behavioral approach. This creates a big disadvantage for the trait and behavioral theories. Neither of them is able to identify the logical relationship between the personal qualities and behavior of the leader on the one hand, and efficiency on the other (Miner, 2015). However, together they create a foundation for the development of the more effective situational

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