Situational Leadership

Ida Kurniati

Situational Leadership

Activities Write on your paper

Good working experience with supervisor/direct leader

Bad experience working with supervisor/direct leader

Leadership is composed of both a directive and a supportive dimension, and each has to be applied appropriately in a given situation-

Movie

What do you observe?

Picture of four leadership style

Leadership styles

• S1: Directing style

• S2: Coaching style

• S3: Supportive style

• S4: Delegating style

Four types of employees

• D1: low in competence - high commitment

• D2: Some competence – low commitment

• D3: high competence – may lack commitment

• D4: Highest in development – highest commitment

How Does it work

• Determine where the subordinate are on the developmental continuum and adapt their leadership styles so they directly match their style to that developmental level.

• Adapt the leadership style

Strength

• Well known

• Frequently used for training Practicality

• Straight forward approach

• Easy to apply across variety of setting

• Prescriptive value

• flexibility

Weaknesses

• Few research

• Ambiguous conceptualization

• No clear explanation

• How model matches leader style with subordinate developmental level

Case studies

What Style Do I use?

P: 101-102

Case Studies

• Why aren’t they listening?

P: 103-104

Case Studies

Getting the Message Across

• P. 104-105