Leadership

Question 1

Leadership Paradox

Answer 1

• the PRESENCE of a LEADER does NOT always ensure that teams will be effective and may even hinder a teams performance or progress
• Few people understand how to transform into leaders
• The question of how one leads others who are supposed to lead themselves is the essence of the team Paradox encountered by leaders of self-managing teams and self-directing teams

Question 2

Difference between leadership and management

Answer 2

Leadership involves a relationship, selecting talent, motivating coaching, building trust

and management involves a function, planning, budgeting, evaluating, facilitating

Question 3

A leader has a point of view that allows them to…

Answer 3

• See what needs to be done
• Understand the underlying forces that are working in the organization
• initiate action to make things better

Question 4

Task-oriented leader

Answer 4

Focuses on accomplishing the objectives of the team

Question 5

Person-focused leader

Answer 5

Focuses on the process of getting their team to their shared goal or objective

Question 6

Transactional leadership

Answer 6

• Leader’s power reinforces team member successful completion of task
• Leaders and their teams are in an exchange relationship that involves negotiation to establish outcomes and rewards
• this type of leadership sets up a competitive relationship between the leader and employee

Question 7

The four authentic leader factors

Answer 7

Moral & Ethical perspective
-values guide actions; Tradeoffs between self interest and the collective
Self-Awareness
-how am I thinking, emoting, behaving?
Transparency
-willing to make mistakes, actions match values, motives are visible
Balanced Processing
-Listening, soliciting other’s views, adapting

Question 8

Transformational Leadership

Answer 8

• Lead by example and set the expectations
• Encourage learning and growth
• Inspire to go to new heights
• Coaching and empowering to success

Question 9

Key determinants that lead to close, trusting relationships between leaders and their subordinates are..

Answer 9

• subordinate’s similarity to the leader
• demonstrated competence
• extraversion

Question 10

Autocratic Leadership

Answer 10

Aka vertical leadership

Type of leadership stems from an appointed or formal leader of a team

Displayed by leaders who seek sole possession of authority, power, and control

Question 11

Democratic leadership

Answer 11

Shared leadership is a group process in which leadership is distributed among, and stem from, team members

Displayed by leaders who share authority, power and control with their team

Shared leadership significantly predicts effectiveness

Question 12

Advantages of differential treatment

Answer 12

• Increased team member commitment
• Organizational commitment to employees increases
• Improved employee and team performance
• Higher job satisfaction

Question 13

Disadvantages of differential treatment

Answer 13

• May cause an “in-group” among those with whom the leader invests
• Leaders may request input from the favored team members, even if they are not an expert, and can thus cause team member resentment
• Diminished group effectiveness by decreasing group efficacy

Question 14

7 Types of Power

Answer 14

Legitimate power-based on a person’s holding of a formal position
Reward power- based on a person’s access to rewards
Coercive power- based on a person’s ability to punish
Expert power- based on a personal expertise in a certain area
Referent power- based on a person’s attractiveness to others
Informational power- based on a power related to an individuals knowledge basis
Network power- based on the depth of connections the person has in their professional and personal network