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A Fast Learner's Guide to Leadership

University of Michigan Leadership Studies

During studies at the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan,  researchers studied which dynamics effected leadership effectiveness.   These studies strived to find ways to measure what made leaders effective.  The two elements that were identified and measured were called employee orientation and production orientation. 

The most noteworthy findings of the study were that there are many kinds of effective leaders:

Some effective leaders were more production oriented, emphasizing production and technical elements of the job. 
Some effective leaders were more employee oriented, stressing relationships and the importance of people. 
To this moment, then, leadership studies had demonstrated different ways of looking at of the same basic concepts.  There was a continuation of studies as theories built one upon the other and evolved.
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