Chapter 10 Vocabulary Flashcards
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The process of inspiring others to work hard to accomplish important tasks
Leadership
The ability to get someone else to do something you want done
Power
Achieves influence by offering something of value
Reward power
Achieves influence by punishment
Coercive power
Achieves influence by formal authority
Legitimate power
Achieves influence by special knowledge
Expert power
Achieves influence by personal identification
Reference power
Achieves influence through connections and social capital
Relationship power
A clear sense of the future
Vision
Is the recurring pattern of behaviors exhibited by a leader
Leadership style
Acts in unilateral command-and-control fashion
Autocratic leader
Emphasizes people over tasks
Human relations leader
Encourages participation with an emphasis on task and people
Democratic leader
Disengaged, showing low task and people concerns
Laissez-faire leader
Brings to the situations a clear sense of the future and an understanding of how to get there
Visionary leadership
Suggests that what is successful as a leadership style varies according to the situation and the people involved
Contingency leadership perspective
Are factors in the work setting that direct work efforts without the involvement of a leader
Substitutes for leadership
Develops specials leader-follower relationships and inspires followers in extraordinary ways
Charismatic leader
Directs the efforts of others through tasks, rewards, and structures
Transactional leadership
Inspirational and arouses extraordinary effort and performance
Transformational leadership
The ability to manage our emotions in leadership and social relationships
Emotional intelligence (EI)
A measure of a persons ability to manage emotions in leadership and social relationships
Emotional intelligence quotient (EQ)
Holds that males and females have similar psychological makeups
Gender similarities hypothesis
Strong on communicating, participation, and dealing with problems by teamwork
Interactive leadership