Task-Oriented Leadership: A Behavioral Approach Applied to Google's Leadership Team

This presentation discusses task-oriented leadership and its application to Google's leadership team. It explains the differences between task-oriented and relationship-oriented leadership and highlights the importance of task-oriented leadership for achieving organizational goals and maintaining competitive advantage. The presentation also covers key behaviors of task-oriented leadership, such as direction setting, organizing collaboration, risk-taking, and executing plans, and how they are implemented at Google.

Task-oriented
leadership

What is task-oriented leadership?
•There is a “distributive” leadership in Google (Tal and
Gordon 2016).
•Google focuses on the tasks to meet specific goals
• Google is more concerned in finding out solutions to
meet its desired organizational goals (MarketLine Advantage 2017).
• The Google leaders Concentrating on strengths of group members
How is task-oriented leadership different from
relationship oriented leadership?
• Task-oriented leadership prioritize focusing on the task
and performance instead of relationship and emotions of
the team.
•The key behaviors or task oriented leadership- direction
setting, organizing collaboration, risk taking and executing
plan, higher standard of performance, ability to as difficult
question. The key behavior of relationship oriented
leadership are- satisfying the high level of needs, servant

• Google actively define the roles and the works
• It ensures that the deadlines are met and the jobs are
completed (McCleskey 2014)
•Ensure that everything is getting done in a productive
manner and that too within the deadline (Wong, Cummings
and Ducharme 2013).
• The main aim of Google is maintaining competitive
advantage.
In task oriented leadership, the focus is achieving the
organizational goals and maintaining competitive
advantage is the main objective. The followers of the
task-oriented leadership sometimes are overlooked to
reach the objectives of the organization.
What is task-oriented leadership important?
Behavioral Leadership Applied to Google's Leadership
Team: Task-oriented Approach

References
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• Tal, D. and Gordon, A., 2016. Leadership of the present, current theories of
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269.

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