Chapter 14 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Power
A measure of a person’s potential to get others to do what he or she wants them to do, as well as to avoid begin forced by others to do what he or she does not want to do.
Authority
The right to issue directives and expend resources
- Related to power but narrower in scope.
Leadership
Ability to influence people to willingly follow one’s guidance or adhere to one’s decisions.
Leader
One who obtains followers and influences them in setting and achieving objectives.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
The relationship between a leader’s expectations and the resulting performance of subordinates.
Trait Theory
Stressed what a leader was like rather than what the leader did.
- Born with traits of a leader.
Autocratic leader
Makes most decisions for the group.
Laissez-faire leader
Allows people within the group to make all decisions.
Democratic Leader
Guides and encourages the group to make decisions.
Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire
Questionnaire to determine what a successful leader does, regardless of the type of group being led.
Consideration
Leader behavior of showing concern for individual group members and satisfying their needs.
Initiating Structure
Leader behavior of structuring the work of group members and directing the group toward the attainment of the group’s goals.
Managerial Grid
2 dimensional framework rating a leader on the basis of concern for people and concern for production.
- Country Club (people)
- Team (trust and respect)
- Organization Man (work and morale)
- Impoverished (minimum effort)
- Authority-Obedience (human elements interfere to a minimum degree)
Contingency Approach to Leadership
Focuses on the style of leadership that is most effective in particular situations.
Leader-Member Relations
Degree that others trust and respect the leader and the leader’s friendliness.
Task structure
Degree to which job tasks are structured.
Position Power
Power and influence that go with a job.
Path-goal theory of leadership
Attempts to define the relationships between a leader’s behavior and the subordinates’ performance and work activities.
Situational Leadership Theory
As the level of maturity of followers increases, structure should be reduced while socioemotional support should first be increased then decreased gradually.
Transactional Leadership
Takes the approach that leaders engage in a bargaining relationship with their followers.
Transformational Leadership
Involves cultivating employee acceptance of the group mission.
Servant Leadership
The leader exists to meet the needs of the people who he or she nominally leads.
Emotional intelligence
The ability to generate, recognize, express, understand, and evaluate the emotions of oneself, others, and groups.
Types of Leadership
- Legitimate
- Coercive
- Referent
- Expert
- Reward
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