Concepts

Question 1

The act of influencing and motivating a group of people to act in the same direction towards achieving a common goal.

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Leadership

Question 2

The process of leading and directing an organization to meet its goal through the use of appropriate resources.

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Management

Question 3

Obtained through learning and experience.

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Trait Theory

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Bring people to progress.

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Positive Traits

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Take people to destruction.

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Negative Traits

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Assumes that some people have certain characteristics or personality traits that make them better leaders than others.

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Trait Theory

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Asserts that some people are born to lead, whereas others are born to be led.

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Great Man Theory

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These people have innate character that made them great leaders.

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Individual Trait Theory

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Eminent psychologist who proposed that the worker’s behavior is influenced by interactions between the personality, the structure of the primary work group and the socio-technical climate of the workplace

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Kurt Lewin

Question 10

This type of leadership tends to get good quantity and quality of output but little autonomy, creativity, or self-motivation.

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Autocratic

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This type of leadership works when the members are knowledgeable, skillful and work well with others

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Democratic

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Chaos is likely to develop unless an informal leader arises to the situation.

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Laissez-Faire

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It involved overcoming inertia and dismantling existing “mind set”.

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First Stage: Unfreezing

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This is typically a period of confusion and transition.

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Second Stage: Change Occurs

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The new mindset is crystallizing and one’s comfort level is returning to previous levels.

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Third Stage: Re-freezing

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An organizational psychologist who sought to study the way people in organizations act and react with each other.

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Chris Argyris

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A futurist known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity.

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Alvin Toffler

Question 18

Five (5) scale measurement tool to determine the level of agreement and disagreement of a respondent to a set of questions that could be objective or subjective in nature.

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The Likert Scale

Question 19

A concept of the ideal work relationship of workers in an organization.

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Linking Pin Model

Question 20

Leaders should adapt their style to follower development style or (‘maturity’), based on how ready and willing the follower is to perform required tasks.

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Paul Hersey & Kenneth Blanchard

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Four leadership styles

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S1: Directing/Telling Leaders
S2: Coaching/Selling Leaders
S3: Supporting/Participating Leaders
S4: Delegating Leaders

Question 22

A leadership theory that moved from the research of traits and personal characteristics of leaders to leadership styles and behaviors

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Fiedler Contingency Model

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suggested that the selection of a leadership style will determine decision-making.

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Vroom and Yetton

Question 24

The leader can affect the performance, satisfaction, and motivation of a group through rewards, clarification of paths to goals and removal of obstacles in work performance. To do this, the leader adopts a certain leadership style as described

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Path-Goal Theory of Leadership.

Question 25

: Specific advice is given to the group and ground rules and structure are established. For example, clarifying expectations, specifying or assigning certain work tasks to be followed.

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Directive leadership

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Good relations are promoted with the group and sensitivity to subordinates’ needs is shown.

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Supportive leadership

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Decision making is based on consultation with the group and information is shared with the group

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Participative leadership

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enging goals are set and high performance is encouraged while confidence is shown in the groups’ ability.

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Achievement-oriented leadership

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The most effective and beneficial leadership behavior to achieve long-term success and improved performance

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Transformational Leadership

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The charismatic leader inspires others by acquiring emotional commitment from followers and by arousing strong feelings of loyalty and enthusiasm.

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Charismatic Theory

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Suggests that an employee’s work motivation is controlled by conditions in the external environment rather than by internal needs and desires.

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Operant Theory

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Basically states that a person behaves the way they do because they are motivated to select that behavior ahead of others because of what they expect the result of that behavior to be.

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Expectancy Theory

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Suggests that workers continuously compare their own work inputs (skill, effort and time) and outcomes (status, pay, and privileges) with those of other employees.

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Equity Theory of Motivation

Question 34

This theory states that goal setting is essentially linked to task performance.

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the Goal-setting theory of Motivation