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Preferred term
path-goal analysis
Definition
- “Leaders, to be effective, engage in behaviors that complement subordinates' environments and abilities in a manner that compensates for deficiencies and is instrumental to subordinate satisfaction and individual and work unit performance” (House 1996, 324). Management scholar Robert J. House's remark about leadership concisely captures the essence of the path-goal theory of leadership. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Path-Goal Analysis]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/path-goal_analysis
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