Hersey and Blanchard’s situational theory is one of the situational theories that asserts on the importance of the subordinate readiness level and how it’s significantly related to the leader effectiveness. The leader needs to adopt the appropriate leadership style based on the followers’ readiness level. Hersey and Blanchard state that the followers characteristics require the leader to select from four leadership styles which are directing (s1), coaching (s2), supporting (s3), and entrusting (s4). Directing is the appropriate style to utilize with the followers who have low readiness contingency, coaching is the appropriate style to utilize with the followers who have moderate readiness contingency, supporting is the appropriate style to
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Chen & Silverthorne, (2005) declare that the results of their study did not support this theory because the appropriate match between the leadership styles with the subordinate readiness levels found to be not positively related to job satisfaction and performance and did not reduce the level of job stress and the intention to leave. However, they assert on the importance of the high level of leadership because they found that “the higher the leader’s leadership score, the higher the employee willingness to perform a task, the higher the employee job satisfaction, the lower the employee’s job stress and the lower the employee’s turnover intention” (p.285). So, what has appeared, that they think it’s not important that the leadership style match the follower readiness level, but what is matter is having a high level of leadership to be a more effective …show more content…
Rajbhandari, Loock, Du Plessis & Rajbhandari, (2014) explain that the followers vary in their abilities, willingness, values, knowledge, skills, thinking, beliefs, personalities, leadership, culture, and motivation which should not be ignored. Therefore, leadership flexibility and mobility is essential to deal with these variations. Being an effective leader is really hard and complicated, and in a like manner, it’s difficult to make all the people agree on one way of seeing the effectiveness of leadership, because every person has his/her beliefs, thoughts, and ways of being an effective leader. This paper presents some supportive point of views as well as the conflicting point of views with Hersey and Blanchard’s situational theory and shows the variation in seeing the effectiveness of the
Chen & Silverthorne, (2005) declare that the results of their study did not support this theory because the appropriate match between the leadership styles with the subordinate readiness levels found to be not positively related to job satisfaction and performance and did not reduce the level of job stress and the intention to leave. However, they assert on the importance of the high level of leadership because they found that “the higher the leader’s leadership score, the higher the employee willingness to perform a task, the higher the employee job satisfaction, the lower the employee’s job stress and the lower the employee’s turnover intention” (p.285). So, what has appeared, that they think it’s not important that the leadership style match the follower readiness level, but what is matter is having a high level of leadership to be a more effective …show more content…
Rajbhandari, Loock, Du Plessis & Rajbhandari, (2014) explain that the followers vary in their abilities, willingness, values, knowledge, skills, thinking, beliefs, personalities, leadership, culture, and motivation which should not be ignored. Therefore, leadership flexibility and mobility is essential to deal with these variations. Being an effective leader is really hard and complicated, and in a like manner, it’s difficult to make all the people agree on one way of seeing the effectiveness of leadership, because every person has his/her beliefs, thoughts, and ways of being an effective leader. This paper presents some supportive point of views as well as the conflicting point of views with Hersey and Blanchard’s situational theory and shows the variation in seeing the effectiveness of the