Task-Oriented vs. Relationship-Oriented Leadership: Google's Approach

This report examines task-oriented leadership as practiced within Google, highlighting its focus on achieving specific organizational goals and maintaining a competitive advantage. It contrasts task-oriented leadership with relationship-oriented leadership, noting Google's emphasis on defining roles, ...Read More

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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• McCleskey, J.A., 2014. Situational, transformational, and transactional
leadership and leadership development. Journal of Business Studies
Quarterly, 5(4), p.117.
• Wong, C.A., Cummings, G.G. and Ducharme, L., 2013. The relationship
between nursing leadership and patient outcomes: a systematic review
update. Journal of nursing management, 21(5), pp.709-724.
• Tal, D. and Gordon, A., 2016. Leadership of the present, current theories of
multiple involvements: a bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics, 107(1), pp.259-
269.

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