Finals Flashcards
(30 cards)
Implies responsibility for outcome and accountability to success and failure of results
Authority
Supervisor’s right to command and the subordinates’ acceptance of the superiors’ right to command.
Authority
The right to make decisions and take actions
Authority
The process of assigning tasks responsibility and granting authority to ensure that tasks are accomplished.
Delegation of authority
Expectation that each employee must accept credit or blame for results achieved in performing assigned tasks.
Accountability
The employee’s obligation to perform assigned tasks
Responsibility
Provide time and adequate feedback to enable subordinates to compare their performance to agree on standards and to correct their deficiencies.
Establish adequate control
Appraise delegated responsibilities and provide training aimed at building on strengths and overcoming deficiencies.
Provide training
Let subordinate carry the work through completion. The leader’s job is to provide guidance, helps and inform
Require completed work
Subordinates must be involved in decision-making by keeping them informed and helping them improve.
Involve subordinate – motivate subordinates
Subordinates should clearly understand the work and the authority delegated to them, recognize such responsibility and accept accountability for results.
Define authority and responsibility
Subordinates should participate in developing the objectives they are expected to meet and agree on standards that will measure their performance
Establish objectives and standard
The act of influencing, directing, guiding and controlling others to obtain obedience, confidence, respect and loyal cooperation of subordinate to achieve a certain goal.
Leadership
to guide; to make go
Leadership
3 types of LEADERSHIP STYLE
AUTOCRATIC STYLE
DEMOCRATIC STYLE (PARTICIPATIVE
FREE REIGN (LAISSEZ FAIRE)
Avoid power and responsibility
Individual goals and work for its own problem
Train themselves and provide their own motivation
The leader just allow his followers to do what they want
FREE REIGN (LAISSEZ FAIRE)
Decentralized authority
Consultation with followers and participation by them
Employees can express ideas and move by group
Practice the philosophy of management
DEMOCRATIC STYLE (PARTICIPATIVE
Centralized power and decision making
Positive when leader gives reward
Based on threats and punishments or through fear
Advantage is to provide strong motivation and reward for the leader; quick decision for all the group
Disadvantage is people dislike it.
AUTOCRATIC STYLE
4 TYPES OF POWER
- Legitimate power
- Organizational power
- Coercive power
- Reward power
remunerative power. This power is based on the ability to give something to value to others.
Reward power
based on fear of the person holding the power. The true strength of this power base is directly related to the amount of harm the person holding the power can inflict.
Coercive power
is that portion of an organization’s power that has been delegated to a person in order to provide administrative force. Such power is exercise through the auspices of the organization. The amount of legitimate power available is totally dependent on the amount of overall power available to the organization.
Legitimate power
derives from the authority base of the agency itself. The power to reward and punish is provided to management so that the goals of the organization can be met. This power is legal and measurable
Organizational power
6 MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
- Respond
- Regulate
- Restrain
- Recover
- Repress
- Reinforce