Directive Leadership

• Giving specific advice or directiveness
• Clarifying expectations
• Assigning task to employees

Supportive Leadership

• Provide support and nurturance
• Being approachable
• Being attentive to employee human needs

Achievement-Oriented Leadership

• Challenging goals are set
• High performance is expected
• leaders trust employee's ability

Participative Leadership

• Involving employees in decisions
• Consulting employees
• Taking employees ideas into consideratipn

Path Goal Theory Components

Subordinate Characteristics

• Needs for affiliation
• Preference for structure
• Desire for control
• Perceived task ability

Subordinate Characteristics

• Needs for affiliation - good with supportive
• Preference for structure - good with directive
• Desire for control (locus of control)- internal good with participative;
• Desire for control (locus of control)- external good w directive;
• perceived task ability - negative rel with need for directive leadership

Task Characteristics

• Task design 
• Formal authority system
• Work group norms

How the Theory Works