Chapter 13 Flashcards
(25 cards)
Leadership
An influence process generated when acts of leading are combined with acts of following as individuals work together to attain mutual goals
Formal Leadership
Exerted by persons appointed or elected to positions of formal authority in organizations
Informal leaders
Exerted by persons who become influential due to special skills or their ability to meet the needs of others
Social construction of leadership
Means that leadership is constructed and produced in social and relational interactions among people acting in context
Claiming
Refers to actions people take to assert their identity as leaders or followers
Granting
Refers to actions people take to bestow an identity of a leader or follower not another person
Motivation to lead
Extent to which individuals choose to assume leadership training, roles and responsibilities
Implicit leadership theories
Our beliefs or understanding about the attributes associated with leaders and leadership
Followership
Process through which individuals choose how they will engage with leaders to coproduce leadership and its outcomes
The romance of leadership
refers to the tendency to attribute organizational outcomes (both good and bad) to the acts and doings of leaders
Follower role orientation
Defined as the beliefs followers hold about the way they should engage and interact with leaders to meet the needs of a work unit
Power distance orientation
Extent to which one accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally
Proactive follower orientation
reflects the belief that followers should act in ways that are helpful, useful, and productive to leadership outcomes
Implicit followership theories
Preconceived notions about prototypical and anti-prototypical followership behavior and characteristics
Social exchange theory
Describes how relationships initiate and develop through processes of exchange and reciprocity
The norm of reciprocity
Says that when one party does something for one another, that party is indebted to the other until the obligation is repaid
Equivalence
Extent to which the amount given back is roughly the same as what was received
Immediacy
How quickly the repayment is made
Interest
the motive behind the exchange
Trust
In social exchange is based on the belief in the intention and ability of the other to repay
Idiosyncrasy credits
refer to our ability to violate norms with others based on whether we have enough “credits” to cover the violation
**Collective leadership
Represents views of leadership not as a property of individuals and their behaviors but as a social phenomenon that is distributed among individuals
**Distributed leadership
Sees leadership as a group phenomenon that is distributed among individuals
**Co-leadership
Occurs when leadership is divided so that no one person has unilateral power to lead
