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Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 4th Edition
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Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 4th Edition

by Montgomery Van Wart, Paul Suino, Pamela S. Medina
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
15h 22m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER 12Task-Oriented Behaviors

DOI: 10.4324/9781003261896-14

Behaviors can be very broadly defined so that there are few categories or they can be very discretely defined with hundreds of items. Early behavioral studies of the 1950s focused on condensing hundreds of items into a few major categories, focusing on the task at hand or on the people doing the work. In 1955, Katz discussed conceptual (or organizational) skills in addition to technical and interpersonal ones. These three categories—task-, people-, and organization-oriented behaviors—will form the basis of the next three chapters.

Leadership behaviors can vary in different ways. First and foremost, they vary according to one's level in the organization. The conventional wisdom ...

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