Behavioural Leadership Theory

Behavioural theory, which emerged as an opposition to the trait theory, promotes the value of leadership styles with an emphasis on concern for people and collaboration. Behavioural theory of leadership, in the most basic sense, focuses on the behaviour of the leader and what leaders do and how they act. A behavioural leader not only promotes participative decision making but also aligns them to the individual or group goals. Behavioural theory considers the observable actions and reactions of leaders and followers in a given situation. The basic focus is on how leaders behave and assume that leaders can be made, rather than born and successful leadership is based on definable, learnable behaviour. Behavioural theories are classified as such