Ohio State University Studies
These will publicized studies were avior that defines and organizes the group tasks, assigns the tasks to employees and supervises their activities.
Consideration refers to leader behavior that can be characterized by friendliness, respect, supportiveness, openness, trusty and concern for the welfare of the employees.
The main point in the study is that both consideration and initiating structure are not seen as being placed on a continuum. That's, rather than a leader necessarily being low on one dimension when high on the other, the leader could be high on both, low on both, or high on one and low on the other.