Leadership and Strategic Management

The Behavioral Approach The behavioral approach focuses on what leaders do rather than discovering who leaders are.  The task behaviors and relationship behaviors are the two types of behaviors engaging in this approach and help leaders to influence others (Northouse, 2016) . A wide range of researches have been done on behavioral approach by various universities and scholars. Image source The Ohio State studies Researchers analyzed how individuals acted when they were leading a group or an organization. In order to help this analyzing-process, they had developed a questionnaire called the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ)   (Stogdill, 1963) . The University of Michigan studies Employee orientation and production orientation are the two leadership behaviors identified by the researchers at University of Michigan (Northouse, 2016) . In Employee orientation behavior, leaders have approached their followers with a strong human rel...

Leadership and Management Introduction Do leadership and management give same meaning or same concept?  Are there any differences or similarities between them? Both can work together or work separately? Northouse states that there are similarities and differences between leadership and management. Both management and leadership have to work with people and to reach goals and both influence individuals are considered as similarities (Northhouse, 2016) As dissimilarities, management has to provide order and consistency at the same time, leadership has to provide change and movement to the organization (Northhouse, 2016) .Both management and leadership have to seek tasks to bring the benefits to organization. By contrast, Management task is to seek order and stability whereas leadership task is to seek adaptive constructive change (Northhouse, 2016) . It brings a sense of awe when we see a leader who has brought a company or a country or a movement to great succes...