Leadership Styles and Organizational Effectiveness

Keow Ngang Tang (tangng@kku.ac.th)
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Keow Ngang Tang: Khon Kaen University

Chapter 2 in Leadership and Change Management, 2019, pp 11-25 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Leadership styles and approaches are essential to a business organizational effectiveness. Understanding leadership styles and approaches can help a business company to build a foundation that can lead to improve productivity, subordinate retention, and improve subordinate relations. This chapter will highlight 14 leadership styles and four leadership research approaches. The 14 leadership styles consist of: (i) Trait leadership style; (ii) Authoritarian leadership style; (iii) Managerial leadership style; (iv) Paternalistic leadership style; (v) Democratic leadership style; (vi) Laissez-faire leadership style; (vii) Transactional leadership style; (viii) Transformational leadership style; (ix) Participative leadership style; (x) Distributed leadership style; (xi) Moral leadership style; (xii) Emotional leadership style; (xiii) Postmodern leadership style, and (xiv) Contingent leadership style. By the end of this chapter, four leadership research approaches, namely trait approach, behavior approach, power-influence approach, and situational approach are presented.

Keywords: Leadership research approaches; Leadership style; Organizational effectiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8902-3_2

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