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A Fast Learner's Guide to Leadership
Ohio State Leadership Studies
| Ohio State University has
long been a leading-edge authority on management and leadership. The Ohio
State studies were begun in 1945 to identify the dimensions of leadership
behavior. The staff of Ohio State created a Leader Behavior Description
Questionnaire (LBDQ) which was designed to discover how leaders carry
out their activities. Questions focused on two elements of leadership.
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The first element was tagged Initiating Structure and deals with Task Behavior, focusing on production issues. Example: measuring production output.
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The second element, Consideration for Workers, focused on the human side of the business and was also called Relationship Behavior. Example: orientation of new employees
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In this way the Ohio State Studies brought together the seemingly juxtaposed Scientific Management and Human Relations Movement. An important finding of the Ohio State studies was that these two dimensions are independent. This means that consideration for workers and initiating structure exist simultaneously and in different amounts. A matrix was created that showed the various combinations and quantities of the elements.
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