Situational Leadership

A theory developed by Hersey and Blanchard which proposed that leadership to be effective will result from adapting leadership styles to meet the needs of the task in achieving the desired outcome; they are adapting to the situation. The leadership style to adopt is based on behaviours of delegating, participating, selling or telling and also the maturity (skills) levels of the employees, these being classed as High, Medium (2 grades) or Low.