Leadership Styles and Organizational Effectiveness

Abstract

Leadership styles and approaches are essential to a business organizational effectiveness. Understanding leadership styles and approaches can help a business company to build a foundation that can lead to improve productivity, subordinate retention, and improve subordinate relations. This chapter will highlight 14 leadership styles and four leadership research approaches. The 14 leadership styles consist of: (i) Trait leadership style; (ii) Authoritarian leadership style; (iii) Managerial leadership style; (iv) Paternalistic leadership style; (v) Democratic leadership style; (vi) Laissez-faire leadership style; (vii) Transactional leadership style; (viii) Transformational leadership style; (ix) Participative leadership style; (x) Distributed leadership style; (xi) Moral leadership style; (xii) Emotional leadership style; (xiii) Postmodern leadership style, and (xiv) Contingent leadership style. By the end of this chapter, four leadership research approaches, namely trait approach, behavior approach, power-influence approach, and situational approach are presented.