its a leadership theory part from principal of management.

1. LEADERSHIP
THEORIES
OF
MOTIVATION

2. SOMEIMPORTANTLEADERSHIPTHEORIESOFMOTIVATION
 MANAGERIAL GRID THEORY
 PATH GOAL THEORY
 LIKERT’S SCALE
 TRANSACTIONAL AND
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS

3. MANAGERIAL GRID THEORY
 This theory is proposed by Robert R. Blake and Jane
Mouton.
 This model originally identified five different leadership
styles base on the concern for people and the concern for
production.
 Shown into 9*9 matrix =81 positions in which leadership
style can be formed.
Five important styles shown in figure are:
(1,1) Impoverished leader
(9,1) Task oriented
(5,5) Middle of the road
(1,9) Country club
(9,9) Team management

4. PATH GOAL THEORY
 Developed by Robert House.
 This theory is based on specifying a leader’s style or
behaviour that best fits the employee and work
environment in order to achieve a goal.
 The goal is to increase your employees' motivation,
empowerment, and satisfaction so they become productive
members of the organization.
 The four path-goal types of leader behaviour are:
- directive
- supportive
- participative
- achievement

5. LIKERT’S SCALE
 Rensis Likert a social psychologist first described his famous
management system in the 1960s ,based upon his observations of
employee-manager relationship in organisation settings .
 The Likert management system is a theory about the various
management styles a manager can adopt within in an organisation .In
the ‘1960s, RENSIS LIKERT developed four management styles ,
intended to describe the relationship, roles and involvement of
managers and subordinates in industrial environments.
 Likert’s four types of leadership style are:
-Exploitative Authoritative
-Benevolent Authoritative
-Consultative
-Participative leadership

6.  Exploitative Authoritative:
-System are highly hierarchical
-Maximum power lies on the hand of top level management
-Subordinates are not included in decision making
-Top to bottom communication
-Top level management takes all the credit but if there is any mistake the blame
lower level management
 Benevolent Authoritative:
-Responsibility and power is on the hand of top level management
-Rather than pushing they reward for good performance.
-Superior has more trust on employees ,they use participative decision making.
-Two way communication is followed but upward communication is only
positive(communicate what top level wants to hear )

7.  Consultative:
-Have greater trust on their subordinates
-They value their subordinates
-Team members are always consulted
-Ultimate power lies with top level management
-Employees motivation fueled with rewards and responsibility for certain task
 Participative leadership
-most satisfying
-They trust their subordinates
-Lower management is valued
-Free to discuss any issue
-They can talk like lower to middle , middle to top or lower to top
-No comparison

8. TRANSACTIONAL AND TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERS
• Transformational– leaders are charismatic leaders , they have a aura, personality.
• They provide mission and vision to followers (why are we doing this, why it is important.)
• Communicate high expectations – they communicate that every employee is valuable, focus on
efforts.
• He promotes intelligence (the people who thinks from brain not the buttering ones)
• He coaches & advises.
• They provides personal attention to the employees.
• Transactional leaders
• Give & take
• Provides reward for good work
• Intervene only when standards are not met.
• Provide full freedom to employees(laissez faire style)