Chapter 12 Flashcards
(20 cards)
What role does culture have in how leadership is viewed?
Culture influences how leadership is perceived, impacting the effectiveness of different leadership styles in diverse cultural contexts.
What are the characteristics of transactional, transformational, and charismatic leadership?
Transactional leaders focus on task-reward exchanges, transformational inspire through values and vision, and charismatic possess exceptional charm and appeal.
What roles do gender and the popular perceptions of gender roles have on views of leadership traits?
Gender roles do not differentiate leadership potential or style; rather, traits like dispositional mood and self-monitoring influence leadership effectiveness.
What are the defining characteristics of transformational and charismatic leaders?
Transformational leaders bring about significant organizational changes, while charismatic leaders possess exceptional charm and arouse intense loyalty.
What does the concept “substitute for leadership” mean?
Substitutes act as replacements for the leaders influence, making the leaders role unnecessary in certain situations, while neutralizers negate the leaders influence.
What is the role of leadership in the 21st century?
21st-century leaders must navigate global competitiveness and diversity, requiring skills like strategic opportunism, global awareness, and community-building.
What are the behavioral approaches to defining leadership?
Behavioral approaches include consideration and initiating structure behaviors, focusing on maintaining relationships and task-oriented actions by leaders.
How do different approaches and styles of leadership impact what is needed now?
Modern leaders must adapt to global competitiveness and internal diversity, requiring strategic thinking and awareness of cultural nuances in leadership.
What are the trait perspectives on leadership?
Trait approach suggests that some individuals possess inherent traits for leadership, such as drive, honesty, cognitive ability, and charisma.
Identify and describe the variables presented in Fiedler’s theory of leadership.
Fiedlers theory assesses leaders based on LPC scores for relationship or task orientation, matching leader orientation to environment favorability for effective leadership.
What is the nature of leadership and the leadership process?
Leadership is a social influence relationship between two or more individuals who depend on each other to attain certain mutual goals in a group.
Do you agree with the statement that “good leaders are the last line of defense and should take responsibility for the actions of the people they hired”?
Personal opinion question.
What is the role of the leader and follower in the leadership process?
The leader takes charge or guides activities to attain shared goals, while the follower willingly surrenders power to the leader to influence the groups maintenance and task needs.
What are the differences between the trait, behavioral, and situational approaches to defining leadership?
Trait focuses on inherent characteristics, behavioral on actions, and situational on adaptation to environmental factors to define leadership.
Identify and describe some substitutes of leadership.
Substitutes like experience, training, structured tasks, or cohesive work groups can replace or mitigate the need for direct leadership influence.
How is Leadership and Management different?
Leadership involves influencing and inspiring others towards a common goal, while management focuses on planning, organizing, directing, and controlling individuals and groups within an organizational context.
How do the theories of Tannenbaum and Schmidt’s leadership continuum and McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y attempt to define leadership?
Tannenbaum & Schmidts continuum ranges from authoritarian to worker freedom, while McGregors Theory X assumes dislike of work and lack of self-control, and Theory Y believes in peoples creative capacities and self-direction.
What are the processes associated with people coming to leadership positions?
Processes include emergence as formal or informal leaders through dynamics within a group, and exerting social influence power over followers.
What are the leadership behaviors in the path-goal theory of leadership?
Supportive, directive, participative, and achievement-oriented leadership behaviors can be adjusted to match situational demands in the path-goal theory.
What are the situational perspectives to leadership?
Situational theories emphasize assessing leader traits and matching them to the environments favorability, like Fiedlers Contingency Model and the Path Goal Theory.
