Behavioral Theory of Leadership: Origin, Syntax, Testing, and Evaluation

Running head: ORIGIN OF THEORY 1
Origin of Theory
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ORIGIN OF THEORY 2
Stage One-Theorizing
Leadership has and will always be a part of our lives. For a very long time we have had
leaders but they did not lead us in the best ways. I decided to be a leader in order to be able to
represent my people and have their needs met. I knew that I had to take action to have the needs
of the less fortunate heard. This is one of the jobs that did not have a directive on how I was
supposed to handle different cases. It hit me hard since I had to figure it all out by myself and
realized that their needed to be a guideline. Through this the behavioral theory of leadership
began to be formulated. It was meant to be a guide for the leaders who would come after me that
didn’t have a clue on how to begin leading (Voss, Chris, 2010).
Stage Two-Syntax
Leadership refers to the process of directing the behavior of others towards
accomplishment of objectives. Being a leader involves the art of influencing people so that they
can strive willingly to achieve a group goal. With this it is clear that should focus on having the
job well done and at the same time keep the followers happy. I aimed on a theory where we
nurture good skills and at the same time ensure togetherness among all the people that are
working together. For a leader to achieve success it is required for them to be active in all the
activities being done around the organization. This greatly helped in finally figuring out the three
categories of leadership behavior which are task performance, group maintenance and
participative decision making (Morgareidge, Hui, Jun, 2014).
Stage Three-Theory testing.
A leadership study was aimed at identifying the most appropriate and conclusive results
about the most effective traits of a leader. We developed a list of statements that would help