South Asian Journal of Marketing & Management Research
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 9

Leadership styles, followership styles and situational demands: Processes and outcomes in three-dimensional match and mismatch circumstances in business organisations in Papua New Guinea

  • Author:
  • Pulapa Subba Rao
  • Total Page Count: 26
  • Page Number: 8 to 33

*Professor of Business Administration and Convener, School of Business Administration, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Online published on 24 September, 2012.

Abstract

This paper analyses leadership styles, followership styles and situational demands in selected state owned enterprises (SOEs) and private enterprises (PEs) in Papua New Guinea with the help of responses of selected superiors (leaders) and subordinates (followers) respondents. It also deals with the match and mismatches circumstances of leadership-followership styles and situational demands and the outcomes in both match and mismatch circumstances.

It offers suggestions for establishing match among leadership and followership styles and situational demands in order to maximise the use of human potentialities and maintain congeniality in the organizations.

Keywords

Leadership Styles, Followership Styles, Situational Demands, Privates Sector Organisations, State Owned Enterprises, Autocratic Style, Participative Style, Democratic Style, Yes-Boss Style, No-Boss Style, Clarification Style, Critical Style