two dimensions of behavior to determine leadership style. The two dimensions were concern for people and concern for production. Leadership style depends both upon the individual leader and upon the situation, or context, in which the leader acts. According to Blake and Mouton, the optimum situation is one in which the leader is able to evince care and concern for people, as well as ensuring that production occurs.
In a similar, but slightly more complex, model, Hersey and Blanchard (1982) combine a two dimensional matrix organized around task behaviors and relationship behaviors with the situation variable of follower maturity. According to them, this variable means that leaders need to be changed as the level of maturity of the follower increases, because different combinations of task behavior and relationship behavior are required. For example, as follower maturity increases, relationship oriented behavior needs to increase. On the other hand, when followers reach the highest levels of maturity, both task behaviors and relationship behaviors ne
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