The Path-Goal Theory, Leadership Styles & Situational Goals

• The path-goal theory was first introduced by Martin Evans, 1970 and developed by Robert House and his colleagues (Robert House et, al. 1971) . The essence of this theory is that both the leader՚s behavior and contextual fac…

Leadership Styles

• Leadership style is a way to provide direction to a leader, implement plans and motivate people. In other words, leadership style gives a sense of what the leader՚s perspective is, how he or she is related to the group members, how the group sets the goal and what method to achieve it.
• Adopts Firstly Lippitt & White (Lippitt & White, 1939) conducted a study under the direction of Kurt Lewin and described three major types of leadership styles.

These three types are as follows-

• Authoritarian Leadership - In this, the leader is the survey of his group. He holds absolute authority…