Situational Leadership theory has many parts to show the different approaches a leader-follower situation has like Directive telling, coaching/selling, participating, and delegating. Looking at all these different approaches, I feel that my manager at the job I have now is very strong in the directive telling approach. She always says that she is up for any opinions and outside input when it comes to solving problems but at the end I always feel like she uses a directive telling approach when she needs something done. Many times she doesn’t even realize that this is the way she handles the situation with me but I believe it’s a natural way for her to distribute tasks to be done without really forming a type of relationship. I think for me as the receiver it hurts my feelings at times because as a boss she isn’t willing to listen to peoples feeling or opinions she is just in her own world where she needs this main task done so she directly tells you, the follower to complete it. On the other hand my assistant manager is very different in her approach. Even though she too assigns tasks to be done, the way she approaches it is , by a delegating way. When she asks you to complete a task, you can always feel that she asks you not commands for the task to be completed. I feel the assistant manager tries to form less task oriented relationships with her followers and more relationship oriented ones.
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