Behavioral Leadership Approach
Hanane Kilaouy
LDR/531
August 20, 2012
Bridget Peaco
Behavioral Leadership Approach Management and leadership skills of employees inside any organization have a huge impact on its success. Yukl (2010) stated that most descriptions of leadership involve process of influencing people intentionally to lead, and build relationships in an organization (Yukl, 2010). Some leaders are born to become leaders and leadership is a natural skill that they own and do not have to build from scratch. However, in an organization most leaders need to reach some degree of work experience to become successful. This paper will emphasize the behavioral approach, including strengths, and weaknesses as well as an example of this leadership approach used in an organization. Behavior Approach is one of the major research approaches for studying leadership that begins back in the early 1950s after scientists start paying more attention to the behaviors of managers. Leaders are individuals who have characters, behaviors, and abilities to make others complete theirs tasks needed to accomplish the target goals for the company. The behavior approach focuses on the behavior of leaders and their method of accomplishing tasks. The main strength of the behavior leadership approach is that the leader usually carries certain skills and behaviors that fit the whole team and lead to working chemistry that leads to a success in an organization. In this method of leadership, the behavior of leaders is the determining factor of the high performance of a group. This technique emphasizes the leaders’ behaviors and how they perform their tasks in examining the values of a leader relevant for explaining the efficiency of this style of leadership in an organization. The people who use behavior leadership are mostly people-oriented leaders, and they focus on the