Leadership Leaders - influence others toward reaching some goal. Gender - men more task oriented, women more people oriented. After the fifties shifted to study situations in which behaviors were performed. Social services - warm friendly person oriented more effective. Effective leader may be better at perceiving goals and needs.
Relationship oriented have best overall functioning.
Task oriented leaders have very effective organizations but only in extremely favorable circumstances. Vroom's Leadership Model Believes a variety of ways to make organizational decisions. Strength - recognizes that leaders have options. Airplanes, nuclear reactors, robotics. Safety Help reduce accidents by equipment design.