Instructor Resource
Northouse, Introduction to Leadership, 5e
SAGE Publishing, 2021
Lecture Notes
Chapter 4: Attending to Tasks and Relationships
Learning Objectives
1. Compare task and relationship-oriented styles.
Chapter Outline
I. Introduction
A. Behaviors determining leaders’ success.
II. Task and Relationship Styles Explained
A. Task Style
i. Task oriented people are Goal oriented.
B. Relationship Style
i. Relationship-oriented people are not goal directed.
ii. Strong orientation in the present.
iii. Value trust in strong relationships.
C. Task–relationship continuum
i. Task-oriented leadership appears on the left end of the continuum.
Instructor Resource
Northouse, Introduction to Leadership, 5e
SAGE Publishing, 2021
ii. Labels of task leadership:
a. Initiating structure.
iii. Common behavior is influencing people toward goal achievement.
iv. People vary in their ability to show task-oriented leadership.
v. Those who are task oriented in their personal lives are naturally more task
oriented in their leadership, and vice versa.
E. Relationship leadership
i. Followers feel comfortable in any situation.
iv. A leader’s challenge is to integrate the two types of leadership behaviors
in an optimal way while effectively adapting to followers’ needs.
v. Third category: Change Behavior.
a. The four components to change behavior are visioning, intellectual