How to Choose a Leadership Pattern (Harvard Business Review Classics) - Softcover

Tannenbaum, Robert; Schmidt, Warren H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1422175529 ISBN 13: 9781422175521

Publisher: Harvard Business Press, 2009

Synopsis

Since 1922, "Harvard Business Review" has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice many of which still speak to and influence us today. "The HBR Classics" series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each volume contains a groundbreaking idea that has shaped best practices and inspired countless managers around the world and will change how you think about the business world today. Modern managers face a dilemma when leading. To relate to subordinates, they may choose a pattern of leadership that ranges from making all the decisions themselves to allowing their subordinates to make decisions within prescribed limits. In deciding how to lead, managers must be aware of their values, confidence in subordinates, leadership inclinations, and tolerance for ambiguity. They must also consider whether their subordinates have the independence, maturity, interest, and knowledge to share in decision making.

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About the Author

Robert Tannenbaum is Professor of the Development of Human Systems at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a Consulting Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and coauthor (with Irving Weschler and Fred Massarik) of Leadership and Organization: A Behavioral Science Approach (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1961).

Warren H. Schmidt is also affiliated with the UCLA Graduate School of Management, where he is Senior Lecturer in Behavioral Science. Besides writing extensively in the fields of human relations and leadership and conference planning, Mr. Schmidt wrote the screenplay for a film, "Is It Always Right to Be Right?" which won an Academy Award in 1970.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Business Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1422175529
• ISBN 13: 9781422175521
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64