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Chapter 6: Path Goal
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Path goal Theory | Discusses how leaders motivate followers to accomplish designated goals. To enhance follower performance and follower satisfaction by focusing on their motivation and the nature of work tasks. This approach emphasizes the relationship between the lead |
| House and Mitchell (1974) | leadership generates motivation when it increases the number of and types of payoffs that followers receive from their work. |
| Path goal theory | is designed to explain how leaders can help followers along with the path of their goals by selecting specific behaviors that are best suited to followers needs and to the situations in which followers are working. |
| Motivation is conceptualized from the perspective of the expectancy theory: | Expectancy Theory: Followers will be motivated if they think they are capable of performing their work, if they believe their efforts will result in a certain outcome and if they believe that the payoffs for doing their work are worthwhile. This theor |
| four leadership behaviors | Directive Leadership: a directive leader sets clear standards of performance and makes the rules and regulations clear to followers. Supportive Leadership: consists of being friendly and approachable as a leader and includes attending to the well bein |
| Follower Characteristics | How a leader’s behavior is interpreted by followers in a given work context Researchers have focused on followers' needs for affiliation, preferences, desired for control, and self perceived level of task ability. These characteristics and many others d |
| Task Characteristics | These characteristics have a major impact on the way a leader’s behavior influences followers’ motivation. Including the design of the follower’s task and the formal authority systems of the organization, and the primary work group of followers. W |
| How does Path- Goal Theory work over all? | Set of assumptions about how various leadership styles interact with characteristics of both followers and the work setting to affect the motivation of followers. In practice - this theory provides direction about how leaders can help followers to acc |
| Participative Leadership | helps followers learn what leads to what, and this leadership has a positive impact when followers are autonomous and have a strong need for control. This theory also predicts that achievement-oriented leadership is more effective in settings in whic |
| Strengths | Attempts to integrate the motivation principles of expectancy theory into a theory of leadership. Because no other leadership approach deals directly with motivation in this way. The theory provides a model that in certain ways is very practical. The re |
| Criticisms | Path goal theory is so complex and incorporates so many different aspects of leadership and related contingencies that interpreting the theory can be confusing. Received only partial support from the many empirical research studies that have been cond |
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