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The Situational Approach to Leadership

The Situational Approach to Leadership

The Situational Approach to Leadership

“Motivation is based on what you bring to it as an individual. What is motivational to one person isn’t motivational to another.”

— Bob Nelson, author and management consultant

Learning Objectives

  • Identify why flexible approaches to the situational approach to leadership are more practical
  • Apply the situational approach to leadership to instances involving day-to-day leader behavior, as well as specifically to decision-making
  • Appraise the potential problems with applying the situational approach to principles
  • State other important leadership issues that are not taken into account by situational approaches to leadership

A question that is continually addressed in this book is: What makes for effective leadership? For many years, the predominant approach to understanding effective leadership was to identify behavioral ...

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