Management Style and Achievement: A Model Synthesis

The area of leadership, management style and decision‐making research contains ideas which have proved to be both controversial and useful. Many of the equivocal results are due to the limited variables contained within the models reviewed. On analysis, each contain powerful ideas and variables which, if integrated, could provide a useful research vehicle as well as an effective training paradigm. This article synthesises a number of variables from several models to develop such an approach.