This week’s lecture is about leadership style. There are many types of leadership style study which is identified by the university that study them. First, University of Iowa categorize leadership style into 3 which are autocratic, democratic and laissez faire. Autocratic style is when leader give order and follower follow without question. Democratic style is when leader ask follower for opinion, there are two-way communication exist in this style. Laissez faire on the other hand, leader give freedom to follower to do their own task, there is no interfere on follower. Next, University of Michigan categorize leadership style into 2 which are Job-Centered and Employee-Centered. Job-Centered style is focus on the follower result and performance while Employee-Centered style is focus on developing and motivating the follower. For Ohio State University, there are 4 leadership style based on 2 dimensions which are low structure low consideration, high structure low consideration, low structure high consideration and high structure high consideration. Structure is similar to Job-Centered by University of Michigan study while consideration is similar to Employee-Centered by University of Michigan study. Hence the 4 style are combination of degree of both dimensions. Blake, Mouton and McCanse have another study that conclude 2 different dimension of leadership which are Concern for People and Concern for Production. This study is similar to Ohio State University study on the degree of dimension but it has 5 different leadership style which first 4 are similar to those from Ohio State University study and the last one is having average Concern for People and average Concern for Production. The goal in leadership is to achieve high Concern for People and high Concern for Production. Furthermore, it is also understood that motivation is a thing that affect behavior in pursuit an outcome. The motivation process starts with need; need leads to motive and motive leads to behavior which leads to consequence. The satisfaction or dissatisfaction of consequence will bring feedback. There are also many theories of motivation which mainly categorized into 3 which are content motivation theory, process motivation theory and reinforcement theory.

In this week, I learn about different degree of characteristic in leadership which can be conclude into relationship and productivity. Different type of leadership is combination of different focus of relationship and different focus of productivity. It is best to achieve high concern on both dimensions.