BEHAVIOR APPROACH

This approach looks for behaviors as they can be observed more objectively

KURT LEWIN IDENTIFIED 3 KEY LEADERSHIP STYLES

• Democratic style lf consulting
• Autocratic style of making decisions
• Laissez faire style of providing little direction

Although they identified and catalogued over 2000 behaviors, no evidence as to which style was most effective was produced.

However, they noted that the most commonly associated behaviors were RELATIONSHIP and STRUCTURE

Yet they were still unable to answer if it was the behavior of the leader or the behavior of the group that determined the success of the person