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Contemporary views of leadership in organization

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Explain "leader-member exchange model (LMX) (of leadership)" and also 'in-group and out-group'

The model Stresses the importance of variable relationships between supervisors and each of their subordinates

in-group: Often receives special duties requiring more responsibility and autonomy; they may also
receive special privileges, such as more discretionabout work schedules

out-group: Receive less of the supervisor’s time and attention and are likely to be assigned the more mundane tasks the group must perform and not be “in the loop” when information is being shared

Explain the 'Hersey and Blanchard model'

Based on the premise that appropriate leader
behavior depends on the “readiness” of
the leader’s followers (i.e., the subordinate’s
degree of motivation, competence, experience,
and interest in accepting responsibility)

This figure shows the nature of this variation. The curved line suggests that a leader’s relationship behavior should start low, gradually increase, but then decrease again as follower readiness increases. But the leader’s task behavior, shown by the straight line, should start high when followers lack readiness and then continuously diminish as they gain readiness.