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Leadership Style
The cornerstone of Fiedler’s theory is the extent to which the leader’s style
is relationship-oriented or task-oriented. A relationship-oriented leader is
concerned with people. As with the consideration style described in Chapter
2, a relationship-oriented leader establishes mutual trust and respect, and
listens to employees’ needs. A task-oriented leader is primarily motivated
by task accomplishment. Similar to the initiating structure style described
earlier, a task-oriented leader provides clear directions and sets performance
standards.
Leadership style was measured with a questionnaire known as the least pre-
ferred coworker (LPC) scale. The LPC scale has a set of 16 bipolar adjectives
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