2. Relationship-oriented behaviors
Focuses on group harmony
Strives to build a rapport with others
Use empathy to relate to others
Puts interaction with others above deadlines
Assigns group activities for team building
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3. TASK-ORIENTED BEHAVIOR
Focuses on efficiently completing tasks
Relies on goal setting and reacting results
effectively
Well- organized and stresses deadlines
Communicates the details of the work to
others
Is time –oriented and stresses clear
directives
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4. TASK-ORIENTED VS. RELATIONSHIP-ORIENTED BEHAVIOR
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Task-Oriented Relationship-Oriented
• Emphasis on work facilitation • Emphasis on interaction facilitation
• Focus on structure, roles and tasks • Focus on relationships, motivation
• Produce preferred results is a priority •Foster positive relationships is a priority
• Emphasis on goal-setting and a clear
plan to reach goals
•Emphasis on team members and
communication within
• Firm use of schedules and step-by-step
plans, and an incentive system
•Communication facilitation, informal
interactions and regular team meetings
7. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE VS. COGNITIVE INTELLIGENCE
Emotional Intelligence Cognitive Intelligence
•Effective as a team player and alone •Effective when working alone
•Able to manage own emotions • Having temper irritability, or retreating
• Emphasis with others and knowing
where they’re coming from
•Not being able to understand how the
emotions effect the situation
•Use emotions to convince someone •Use intellectual appeal to convince
someone
•Motivation is a feeling word • Motivation is a thinking word
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8. REFERENCES
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Northouse, P. (2013). Leadership Theory and Practice (6th ed.). Sage.
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Editor's Notes
Leaders with relation-oriented behaviors understand the importance of tasks, but they spend a remarkable amount of time to focus on how to meet the needs of everyone concerned in the job. These leaders would do different things to meet their goals such as offering bonuses, offer negotiation , and offer above average financial compensation to encourage employees and lead in a charming behavior.
Task oriented leaders are those who focus on the task or many tasks at the same time, and search for the best way to achieve these tasks . These leaders are less concerned with the idea of delivering to employees, and more concerned with finding technical solutions for meeting specific goals. They always think on building employee productivity that will bring success in the company. The task-oriented behavior is usually systematic and leaders with this behavior have a strong understanding on how to get the job done by focusing on required workplace actions.
Task-oriented leaders focus on getting the required tasks or many tasks to accomplish a goal. These leaders are usually not worried much with the idea of communicating with employees but they are more worried to find step-by-step resolution that is needed to meet a particular goal. Task-oriented behavior ensures that deadlines are met and work is completed and it is valuable for the team members who do not control their time well.
Relationship-oriented leaders focus on supporting and motivating the people on the team and develop relationships within. This behavior encourages good teamwork and collaboration through building positive relationships and good communication. Relationship-oriented behavior works on keeping the team members in a situation where the leader cares about their happiness. Leaders with this behavior work on building positive environment. In addition, team members may take risk only because they know that the leader will support them if needed.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth. The ability to control feelings and handle stress is another feature of emotional intelligence that has been found to be important for success. Emotional intelligence knows a lot when and how to articulate emotions as it does with controlling it.
Cognitive intelligence is the ability to plan, reason, and use logical assumption to solve problems. It is also the capability to apply conceptual thinking while learning from and responding to the surroundings. Cognitive intelligence is a mental capability that involves the ability to reason, understand difficult ideas, learn from experience, and learn quickly. It reflects a broader and deeper potential for comprehending the setting.
Emotional intelligence is understanding your own emotions and those of others and being able to use this information to bring the best result for all concerned. When knowing where these emotions coming from then you will be able to manage your own and also of others. Also, knowing what these emotions mean will make you able to work with others and alone. Emotional intelligence is the ability to mix it with cognitive intelligence and use them is cycle. On the other hand, cognitive intelligence is the intellectual abilities such as logic, got into your head and work in the center of the brain to provide important information. Cognitive intelligence does not require any social skills and the person can balance anything by himself.
