Compare And Contrast Person And Task Oriented Leadership Styles

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What leadership style is more effective to get employees to be more efficiently. Are task-oriented leaders better in a workplace or is a people-oriented better in a workplace. A study is going to be conducted to understand how employees react to each of these leadership styles. Comparing and contrasting task- and people-oriented leaderships, to recognize which of the categories works best.
INTRODUCTION
There are several different leadership techniques, the different styles vary depending on what type of characteristics the person has. The most common leadership styles are people-oriented and task-oriented leadership. Each technique has its advantages as well as disadvantages with more disadvantages than the other. Research will be conducted to figure out which of those two techniques are most effective in a workplace. Which leadership technique shows the most success?

LITERATURE REVIEW
People-oriented leaders are focused on the relationship building, …show more content…

(Law, 2015) That leadership style works well with trying to achieve goals to compete with competitors. Task-oriented leaders can be very autocratic as their primary focus is to get the most immediate task completed. The leader is concerned only with task accomplishment therefore the team suffers through lack of motivation and retention. (Russell, 2011) Sometimes it can be stressful for the employee with multiple tasks to do with deadlines coming up. The weaknesses of the task-oriented style include a fear of breaking the rules among employees, which may lead to a lack of creativity, low morale and high turnover. Employees who are afraid to break rules may not take any risks, which means that innovation may suffer. When trying to compete, being innovative and creative is important because in order to get for consumers to get to know your brand it has to be unique from other

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