Relationship-oriented leadership, also known as people-oriented leadership, is a leadership style that focuses on supporting and motivating teams or work groups, and on fostering healthy relationships within those groups. Relationship-oriented leaders prioritize creating a healthy work environment, team cohesion, and group members’ individual and collective satisfaction.
There are several reasons why relationship-oriented leadership is important.
In sum, relationship-oriented leadership is important because it can create a more productive, cohesive, and satisfied workforce.
A relationship-oriented leader can create a healthy work environment in several ways.
A relationship-oriented leader can build team cohesion by encouraging communication, engaging in team-building activities, structuring goals, offering training and development, celebrating successes, building trust, and defining values.
There are many specific ways in which a relationship-oriented leader can increase employee satisfaction.
There are a few potential downsides to relationship-oriented leadership.
If taken too far, the development of team chemistry may detract from the actual tasks and goals at hand. While the term “people-oriented”, can be used synonymously in a business setting this approach could also be called “employee-oriented”. This may cause a leader to lose sight of the goal and become more concerned with creating a positive environment instead of achieving results.
Therefore, relationship-oriented leadership may not be as effective in a highly competitive environment where there is a need for quick decisions and decisive action.
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