Path-Goal Theory Of Leadership Paper

The purpose of this paper is to understand leadership and the path-goal theory of leadership and few others leadership style and how are these theory are supposed to used appropriately. Leadership is the process of influencing others to achieve group or organisational goals . Therefore, a leader’s behaviours is important to an organisation because the achievement of organisational goals mostly depends on a leader and their leadership behaviour(Mc William, Alan 2010) . A leader must deal directly with people, develop rapport with them, persuade and inspire them to collaborate in the achievement of goals and vision.(Sikandar Hayyat Malik, 2013) Path-goals theory is leadership theory that’s states leaders can increase subordinate satisfaction

Supportive leadership consists of being friendly and approachable as a leader and includes attending to the well-being and human needs of subordinates (Northouse cited in Sikandar Hayyat Malk ,2012). Supportive leadership is effective as leader offers a wide range of rewards to subordinate such as encouragement, pats on the back, and respect.( Sikandar Hayyat Malik 2013) Supportive leadership is a leader will rather used the take and effort to help the employees understand their strengths and weakness so that they could improve on doing their task. An example given here,George Washington one of the famous leaders in history. He treated the lowliest price with the dignity and respect he afforded a visiting dignitary from Philadelphia. How we treat service personnel, subordinated at work, people on the telephone, the guy at the garage, our family members, all impacts the effectiveness of our role as a leader. (CharismaNews, 2013) Other example will be Bill Hewlett the co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Corporation. He was noted for caring about his workers when he is still a CEO of the company (Art Gould, 2011). But sometimes we have to realise supportive leadership can be very dangerous because

(2011) believe that path-goal theory had two objectives which is identify roles , behaviours of effective leaders and explore situational contingencies that modify those behaviours. As a leader behaviour has to always depends on the situation to act differently to solve the problems, so for leaders to be successful everywhere and in every situation, he or she must be flexible to adopt the appropriate behaviour as situation demands. The path-goal theory relates different types of leadership behaviour to differing attitudes and behavioural responses of subordinates. As theory suggests that different leader behaviours have different kind of impact on subordinates’ motivation.(Sikandar Hayyat Malik,2013)“To increase personal pay-offs to subordinates for work-goal attainment and make the path to these pay-offs easier to travel by clarifying it, reducing road blocks and pitfalls, and increasing the opportunities for personal satisfaction en route”(House cited in Robert P.Vecchio et al 2008) Leaders that are using path-goal theory may has many ways to approach or used it therefore when these theory is used in the appropriate way it will have the most efficiency and effectiveness results. Like What Bill Bradley say “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become