subject: The Behavioral Approach In Leadership Development [print this page] Leadership is the innovative process of making people does what perhaps they do not want to do, but do it with pleasure. It has several approaches and hence is measured by many theories starting with the theory of personas and behaviors and ending with the contemporary eventuality theory and the transformational approaches. Moorhead and Griffin explained leadership as; it is both a process and property. As a process, leadership involves the use of non-coercive influence. As a property, leadership is the set of characteristics attributed to someone who is perceived to use influence successfully. So leadership is related to motivation and interpersonal behavior within the organization. Effective leadership development involves entrustment of consultant to the assistants in a lively manner and it assists the managers in the preparation of the teams for the better accomplishment. This thing can be easily observed in any department or organization that there are certain people who would show leadership signs while others wont. Great leaders like Gandhi, Napoleon, or George Washington etc. are made us understand that there are several examples when the decisions and participation of one important person is dynamic. Such people have some prodigious qualities that allow them to know what can be done, when and how.
Four important things are involved in leadership, that is as under;
Impelling other people.
Some leaders and some must be followers.
Leaders know what they want to attain and why, they have clear vision.
Frequently leaders come to front in time of crisis and present pioneering elucidation.
Behavioral theory is all about leadership instead of leaders and it is the most rational way was to discover how leaders behaved in their usual activities and chiefly towards their followers. Concern for task, concern for people, participative leadership and directive leadership are the key points of the main schemes of behavioral leadership. For instance, concern for task is such kind of behavior of leader that represented by noticeable achievement linked to better output, organization of labor and motivation of employees. Concern of people shows the obvious concern for people who work in department and wish to develop proper relations. In participative behavioral leadership is represented by the leaders craving to engross people to the task and increase their vow by allowing them to make decisions for the department they work for. Directive behavioral leadership style is signified by the leaders taking often decisions for other, and expecting the others rather bluntly follow the instructions. So the actual leadership effectiveness and efficiency usually depends on two particular factors. One is the leadership behavior or style and other is degree of freedom allowed by a particular situation. Therefore in this domain one should consider three more things in mind. The most important is the relationship between leader and followers only then one will get the affirmative results. Second comes the task structure which explains that if tasks can be easily identified and the goals are clear it is possible that the leader will more success. Final one is the position power that is if the leaders want to enhance his power then he should assume a specific position to do that.
