Chapter11 Flashcards

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Leadership

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The process of inspiring others to work hard to accomplish important tasks

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Power

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The ability to get someone else to do something you want done or to make things happend the way you want

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Reward Power

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The capacity to offer something of value as a mean to influence other people

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Coersive Power

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The capacity to punish or withhold positive outcome as means of influencing other people

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Legitimate power

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Capacity to influence other people by virtue for formal authority, or the rights of office

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Expert Power

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The capacity to influence other people because of specialized knowledge

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Referent Power

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The capacity to influence other people becaus they desire to identify personally with you

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Position Power

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Based on things Managers can offer to others

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Personal Power

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Based on how managers are viewed by others

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Vision

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A clear sense of the future

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Visionary leadership

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Brings to the situation an clear sense of the future and an understanding of how to get there

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Servant leadership

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It is follower-centered and commited to helping others in their work

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Empowerment

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Enables others to gain and use decision-making power

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Servent leader

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Empower others by providing them with the information, responsability, authority, and trust to make decisions and act independently

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Leadership Style

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Recurring pattern of behaviours exibited by a leader

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Blake and Mouton’s 2 dimentions of leadership style

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  • Concern for the task - Concern for the people
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Autocratic Leadership Style

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Leader acts in a unilateral, command and control fashion

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Human Relations leadership Style

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Emphasizes people over tasks

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Laissez Faire Leadership Style

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Typical of the impoverished manager, focuses on minimum effort to get work done

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Democratic Leadership Style

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	Focuses on both Task and people, trying to get things done while sharing information ...
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Fiedler’s contingency model

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The focuse is on determining the correct style-situation fit. Tree measurs are taken in account: - Quality of leader-member relations - Task Structure - Position Power Each style work best when used in the right situation, but leadership style does not change.

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Hersey & Blanchard situational leadership model

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Believe that true leaders can adjust their style by increasing or decreasing their Task Behaviour or Relationship Behaviour depending on wether guidance or support are requiered. 4 Leadership Styles - Delegating - Participating - Telling - Selling

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Hersey & Blanchard Delegating

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Allowing the group to take responsability for task decisions; low task low relationship style

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Hersey Blanchard Participating

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Emphasizing shared ideas and participative decisions on task direstions; a low task high relationship style

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Hersey & Blanchard Selling

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Expending task direction in a supporting and persuasive way; a high task high relationship style

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Hersey & Blanchard Telling

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Giving specific task directions and closely supervising work; a high task low relationship style

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Path Goal Leadership Theory: 4 Leader Styles

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  • Directive leadership - Supportive Leadership - Acheivement Oriented Leadership - Participative leadership
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Path and Goal leaderchip theories: 2 Contingencies

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		Follower contingency			Ability			Experience			Locus of control				Environmental contingency			Task Structure			Authority System			Work group
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Path and Goal leadership theory: Directive leadership

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Letting subordinate know what is expected; giving direction on what to do and how; scheduling work to be done; maintaining standard of performance; clarifying the leader role in the group

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Path & Goal leadership theory: supportive leadership

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Doing things to make work more pleasant; treating group members as equals; being friendly and approachable; showing concern for the well being of subordinates

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Path and Goal leadership theory Acheivement Oriented Leadership

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Setting challenging goals; expecting the highest level of performance; emphasizing continuous improvement in performance; displaying confidence in meeting high standards

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Path & Goal leadership theory: Partivipative leadership

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Involving subordinate in decision making; consulting with subordinate; using suggestions when making decisions

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Substitute Leadership

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Factors in the work setting that direst work efforts without the involvement of a leader.

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Leader Member Exchange Theory (LMX)

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Not everyone is treated the same by the leader. Depending on 3 percived quality of the followeres (compatibility, competency, and personality) people fall into “in-groups” and “out-groups”.

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Leader member exchange theory: In group

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Enjoy special and trusted high exchange relationship with the leader that can translate to special assignment, privilages and access to information

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Leader member exchange theory: Out group

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Excluded from attributions and benefits. Have low exchange relationship with the leader

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Leader Participation Model

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Leadership success results when the decision making method used by a leader best fits the problem being faced

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Leader Participarion Model: 3 Decision Methods

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  • Authority Decision -Consultative Decision - Group Decision
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Leader- Participation Model: 3 Rules that govern decision Making method used

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  • Decision Quality (who has the expertise) - Decision acceptance ((acceptance of the decision by the followers) - Decision Time
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Leader Participation Model: Authority Decision

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Decision is made by the leader and then comunicated to the group

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Leader Participation Model: Consultative Decision

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Decision is made by the leader after receiving information, advice, or opinion from group members

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Leader Participation Model Group Decision

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Decision is made by group members themselves

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Charismatic Leader

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Develops special leader-follower relationship and inspiers followers in extraordinary ways

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Transactional Leadership

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Uses task, rewards, and structures to influence and direct the effort of others

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Transformational Leadership

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Inspirational and arouses extraordinary effort and performance

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Vision

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Having ideas and a clear sens of direction; comunicating these to others; developing excitement about accomplishing shared “dreams”

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Charisma

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Using the power of personal reference and emotion to arouse others’ enthousiasm, faith, loyalty, pride, and trust in themself

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Symbolism

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Identifying “heros” and holding spontaneous and planned ceremonies to celebrate excellence and high achievement

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Empowerment

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Helping others develop by removing performance obstacles, sharing resonsibilites, and delegating truely challanging work

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Intelectual Stimulation

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Gaining the involvement of others by creating awareness of problems and stirring their imaginations

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Integrity

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Being honest and credible, acting consistently out of personal conviction, and following through on commitments

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Emotional inteligence

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The ability to manage our emotions in social relationships