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Explain Path Goal Approach of leadership..
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It is one of the situational theories of leadership. This approach was initially developed by House and later extended by House and Mitchell. It emphasis that leaders can optimise organisational effectiveness by influencing the path-goal perceptions of subordinates and their need satisfaction. This approach is based on inferences drawn from the expectancy theory of motivation under which people arc assumed lo have- needs and to want to work in a way that accomplishes goals thai satisfy those needs. Thus, this approach is based on the situation rather than on a single kind of leadership.
The theory proposes that a leader's effectiveness depends on his ability: (/) to provide opportunity for employee need satisfaction, (ii) to help and guide them in fulfilling their needs, and (iii) lo make need satisfaction contingent on their performance effectiveness. In other words, employees will work to their maximum capacity and make their optimum contribution to the achievement of organisational goals only when they perceive that their own need satisfaction is dependent on their effective performance.
