Northouse, Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and Practice, 4e
SAGE Publishing, 2018
Discussion Questions
Chapter 5: Attending to Tasks and Relationships
1. When working with others, do you focus more on the task or relationships with those
you’re working with? Why?
2. Which is more important to you, task leadership or relationship leadership?
3. How are the behaviors listed as “change behaviors” different from task behaviors or
relationship behaviors?
4. Have there been times when your style has conflicted with others in your group?
5. Do you agree that task- and relationship-oriented leadership behaviors lie along a
continuum? Why or why not? Where would change behaviors fit along this continuum?
6. Would laissez-faire leadership appear anywhere on this continuum?