Chapter 12: Leadership Flashcards
(51 cards)
Leader emergence
Who is viewed as a leader?
- Emotionally stable, extravert, open to experience, conscientious.
- Self-monitoring personality.
Leadership effectiveness
When is a leader effective?
- Attempted leadership
- Succesful leadership
- Effective leadership
Is a study of whichh behaviors on the part of a designated leader led to an outcome valued by the work group or organization.
Leader
Is an individual in a group given the task of directing task-relevant group activities or, in the absence of a designated leader. Carrying the primary responsibility for performing these functions in the group. They are emotional stable, extravert, open to experience and a visionary.
Attempted Leadership
A situation that occurs when a leader accpets the goal of changing a follower and can be observed attempting to do so.
Sucessful Leadership
A situation that occurs when a follower changes his or her behavior as a function of the leader’s effort.
Effective leadership
A situation that occurs when a leader changes a follower’s behavior, resulting in both leader and follower feeling satisfied and effective.
Defining leaderhsip outcomes
Outcomes valued by the workgroup and/or the organization.
- Problem 1: Many performance indicators
- Problem 2: Time lag
Leader development
A process that concentrates on developing, maintaining or enhancing individual leader attributes such as knowledge, skills, and abilities.
- Knowledge, skills, abilities.
Leadership development
A process that concentrates on the leader-follower relationship and on developing an environment in which the leader can build relationships that enhange cooperation and resource exchange.
- Process, relationship
Interpersonal competence
A type of competence that includes social awareness and social skills, such as the ability to resolve the conflict and foster a spirit of cooperation.
Power motive
The disire to attain control or power that results from people learning that the exercise of control over others or the environment is pleasing.
Activity inhibition
A psychological term used to describe a person who is not impulsive.
Affiliation need
A need to approval or connections with others.
Leadership motivation
- Affective-identity motive: the need for power and control.
- Instrumental motive: perosnal advantage when being the leader.
- Social-normative motive: being unselfish and feeling a duty to be a leader to save the world.
Destructive leadership
- Tyrannical
- Derailed
- Supportive-Disloyal
A tyrannical leader
A leader who is great at achieving the company goal but does it in a very not social way and not pleasant.
A derailed leader
Exhibits behavior himself that is out of bounds so like fraud.
Supportive-disloyal leader
Violate the company rules and for examples gives big bonus to employees.
Great man theories
Is a leaderhsip theory developed by historians wo examined the life of a respected leader for clues leading to the person’s greatness.
Trait approach
Is the leadership theory that attempted to show that leaders possessed certain characteristics that non leaders did not.
Power approach
Is the leadership theory that examines the types of power wielded by leaders. Types of powers are:
- Reward power: The potential of a supervisor to dispense valued rewards.
- Coervice power: The potential of a supervisor to dispense punishment.
- Legitame power: the right of a supervisor to influence a subordiante and the obligatin of the subordinate to accept.
- Referent power: The desire to the subordiante to be like the supervisor.
- Expert power: the knowledge of the supervisor.
Behavioral approach
It is a leaderhsip theory that focused on the kinds of behavior engaged in b poeple in leadership roels and idnetified two major types: consideration and initating structure.
Consideration
Relation-oriented behavior
A type of behavior that includes behavior indicating mutual trust, respect, and a certain warmth and rapport between the supervisor and group.
Initiating structure
Task-oriented behavior
Is a type of behavior that includes bheavior in which the supervisor organizes and defines group activities and his or her relation to the group.
