Participative Leadership Style

The four leadership styles of Path-Goal are: directive, supportive, participative, and achievement-oriented. As mentioned earlier, these behaviors have certain applications when the leader assesses their team and the situation. Directive leadership delves into high supporting interaction with clear authority structures. Supportive leadership is best exercised when there are repetitive task that offer little reward of accomplishment. Leaders establish and maintain a strong personal connection and sympathetic understanding. Participative behaviors are employed when the task and the environment are uncertain. Since Path-Goal strives for the path of least resistance, clarity remains elemental when obtaining a goal. Additionally, participative leaders may have an experienced workforce that needs problem-solving space and resourcing. Lastly, achievement oriented actions strive to relate to a high performing employees sense of self-actuation. Rather than assume the organization is the primary focus, here a leader cultivates these effective members through increasing high standards that may transcend …show more content…
Path-Goal behaviors of directive leadership align with those of Situational leaders using directive actions in S1. Supportive efforts in Path-Goal equate to the coaching in Situational leadership II, when applied to teams needing direction but are enthusiastic and capable. Participative leaders in Path-Goal should be in line with supporting leaders in Situational Leadership under the premise that these individuals are high functioning but may have unique or irregular tasks. The achievement-oriented team in Path-Goal may be similar to the S4 team in Situational Leadership II where delegative leadership options are used for a highly capable, season team exists, and expectation of task completion is