Concept information
Preferred term
situational leadership
Definition
- Situational leadership has its roots in the Ohio State Leadership Studies that were based on surveys of leaders and subordinates that focused on two elements of leadership: (1) consideration or relationship behavior of leaders toward their subordinates, and (2) initiating structure or task behavior of leaders and how their roles are defined and structured. Situational leadership suggests that leaders demonstrate flexibility in determining and using an appropriate leadership style to fit their followers' needs and their work situations. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration; Leadership, Situational]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- adaptive work
- boundaries and authority
- change management
- coalitions
- conflict
- contingency theory of leadership
- crisis
- cross-cultural leadership
- decision making
- dirty hands
- distribution of leadership
- economic justice
- friendship
- group cohesiveness
- group decision rules
- group effectiveness
- group norms
- group process
- group satisfaction
- intergroup processes
- leadership effectiveness
- Leadership for the Common Good
- leadership in the digital age
- leadership succession
- learning organizations
- legacy
- majority and minority influence
- management
- moral imagination
- motivational contagion
- networks and networked organizations
- organizational climate and culture
- organizational dynamics
- organizational justice
- organizational theory
- poverty and inequality
- psychological substructures
- racial minorities
- relational leadership approaches
- resistance
- romance of leadership
- spirituality
- substitutes for leadership
- task leadership
- team leadership
- teamwork
- total quality management
- upward influence
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/situational_leadership
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