This gives the leader the chance to select the worker they least want to work with by circling the number choice identifying the reason the dislike the employee. After the filling the form, the sum total from the LPC represents the respondent’s score. A score below 50 determines that the leader is task oriented with the medium score suggesting that the leader is task-oriented or relationship-oriented, for the high score it concludes that the leader’s style is relationship …show more content…
The situational leadership model.
The follower’s maturity in this theory is determined by task skills and motivation, the task skills represents the knowledge and ability of the follower in the workplace. For the motivation, the desire for the employees to accomplish a specific duty in relation to their psychological maturity. These two levels provide readiness levels which are divided into telling, selling, participating and delegating.
This theory provides room for the leader’s flexibility; this ensures that the leaders copes with the current leadership requirements shown by the employees depending on the situation available. The theory is precise and gives clear outline of how the leaders should act effectively. The theory has weakness has it creates confusion in situations where there is no consistency from the employees. The theory also is more in management than in leadership which makes the communication between the leaders and subordinate poor. The theory makes it hard to understand when the commitment set is