University of Iowa

and Ohio state

behavioural Theories
Ryan (Swag) Finley
Aaron (Bleezy) Brooks
Haley Zinn
#Ben Nickerson

Behavioural Theories
Leadership theories that identify behaviours
that differentiate effective leaders for
ineffective leaders.

The University of Iowa

The university of Iowa studies explored 3
Leadership styles;
Autocratic style
Democratic style
Laissez-faire style

Lewin and the boys

Lewin and his associates researched
which one of the leadership styles were
most effective.
Their results seemed to indicate that
the democratic style contributed to both
good quantity and quality of work.

Further Results
The earlier test results proved that
democratic style showed higher
performance levels than autocratic style,
but other tests proved that lower or equal
performance levels were produced by
democratic style.

The University of Ohio

It began with over 1,000 behavioural
dimensions, and researchers were able to
narrow it down to 2 categories;
Consideration
Initiating structure

Definitions
Initiating Structure: The extent to which a
leader is likely to define and structure his
or her role and the roles of group
members in the search for goal
attainment.
Consideration: The extent to which a
leader has job relationships characterized
by mutual trust and respect for group
members ideas and feelings.

Leaders who are high in both initiating

structure and consideration behaviours are
considered high-high leaders.
High-high leaders achieved high group task
performance and satisfaction more
frequently.