FIRO-B and situational leadership model: A correlational context of Middle Eastern business leadership

Abstract

The study is about the dimensions of interpersonal needs and aspects of leadership behaviour. It was a correlational study and used a standardized fundamental interpersonal relations orientation-behaviour (FIRO-B) and situational leadership questionnaire. The study was conducted over a period of 4 months and had drawn 200 respondents from the three levels of administration in an organisation’s hierarchy from different firms in the UAE chosen randomly. The main tool of data collection was a structured questionnaire whose acceptability rate was 0.76 as per Cronbach’s alpha. The research questions translated into objectives that guided the study were four, these were to find out directing related to FIRO-B parameters, to establish the relationship between coaching and FIRO-B parameters, to find out how supporting relates to FIRO-B parameters and establish how delegating is related to FIRO-B parameters. The findings were that directing has a near-perfect positive correlation with expressed control (EC) and wanted control (WC) (0.99). Coaching had a high correlation with WC (0.89). Supporting highly correlation with both expressed affection (EA) and wanted inclusion (WI) (0.99 and 0.88). Delegating had a very strong positive correlation with expressed inclusion (EI) (0.99) and a low positive correlation with EA (0.17). It concluded that different leadership dimensions correlate with FIRO-B elements at different levels