The Tannenbaum and Schmidt Continuum is a simple model of leadership theory which shows the relationship between the level of freedom that a manager chooses to give to a team, and the level of authority used by the manager. As the team's freedom is increased, so the manager's authority decreases. This is a positive way for both teams and managers to develop.
As a manager, one of the responsibilities is to develop your team. You should delegate and ask a team to make its own decisions to varying degrees according to their abilities. There is a rising scale of levels of delegated freedom that you can use when working with your team.
As a manager, one of the responsibilities is to develop your team. You should delegate and ask a team to make its own decisions to varying degrees according to their abilities. There is a rising scale of levels of delegated freedom that you can use when working with your team.
For this graph, we assigned a leader of groups of three. His / Her job was to lead this group into making a bridge out of paper and magazines. The leader could be either, a strict leader where he bosses his group members or a flexible one where he / she cares about their group members and lets them do what ever they want with it. Our group leader was a mix of both but more towards being a flexible leader. He wants mostly everything his way but, if some one suggests something better, we would just stick with that.