Task Oriented Leadership Style

If the task motivated leaders are mainly concerned with reaching the common goal, then relationship motivated is more focused on building the relationship as well as the communication within the team. According to Burns (2014:271), there are 3 leadership styles developed in contingency theory, basing on the degree of freedom or control for the staffs. Authoritarian style is where the decision-making power focus solely on the leader. In the crisis time, authoritarian can be the most appropriate style. However, the problem is that leaders can lose the respect as well as the willingness to follow of people. The second style is democratic, which put the decision-making power in favor of group. This leadership style is more suitable for specific …show more content…
According to this theory, effective leadership can be taught and learnt. Therefore, its purpose is to study and understand what the leaders do. There are two main elements of this approach, which are concern for people and concern for results, performance. Therefore, the leadership styles are classified into two different categories: task-oriented leadership and people-oriented leadership. Task-oriented leaders are more focusing on the structure of the organization, the management of the organizational procedures as well as performance. With this leadership style, leaders still take the people element into consideration but it is not their priority. With this leadership style, leaders are usually concentrate on activities like organizing, initiating, clarifying and information gathering. In contrast, people-oriented leaders will prioritize the relationship within the team. They will focus on their behaviors to ensure the effective communication as well as the level of satisfaction of the team members. For this leadership style, leaders achieve the organizational goals in different ways while taking the human relationship into great consideration. These leaders favor behaviors like encouraging, observing, listening, coaching and mentoring. Meanwhile, transformational approach is the theory focusing on the level of emotional intelligent of the …show more content…
(2015), entrepreneurial behaviors are important in various contexts, as these behaviors foster the innovation and changes in any organizations. On the other hand, leadership theories depend a lot on the context. And the entrepreneurial context is characterized as uncertainty, changes and high-risk. So, in order to understand the role of entrepreneurial behaviors in the organization, one of the approaches to this topic is the concept of entrepreneurial leadership. Entrepreneurial leadership is a style of leadership combining the characteristic of both leadership and entrepreneurship. The overlapping characteristics between leadership and entrepreneurship are visionary, motivator, strategic thinker and learner, emotional intelligent, relationship builder, team player, confidence builder, organization structuring, high tolerant for ambiguity, opportunity-focus (Burns, 2014:277). And entrepreneurial leadership is more focused on influencing individual to achieve a common organizational goal. More importantly, the goal of entrepreneurial leaders is to create an organizational structure that would work effectively without the leader. Renko et al. (2015) states that this leadership style is the combination of contingency and transformational approach. Therefore, entrepreneurial leadership is suitable for organizations of any size or type. Furthermore, the entrepreneurial leader is the central of the team. That’s why it is important for the leader to build