Leadership

Question 1

What are the qualities of a good leader?

Answer 1

• Vision
• Ambition
• Motivation
• Charisma
• Experience
• Good communication skills
• Empathy with team members
• Understanding of the needs of others
• Highly developed perceptual and decision-making skills

Question 2

What is an autocratic leader?

Answer 2

This type of leader will make all the decisions and is motivated to complete the task quickly and effectively as possible.
They focus on responsibility and focuses on group performance and achieving goals.

Question 3

What is a democratic leader?

Answer 3

They share decisions with the group and is often ready to delegate responsibility.
Focuses on creating interpersonal relationships within the team.

Question 4

What is a Laissez-faire leader?

Answer 4

The leader will stand aside and allow the group to make their own decisions and make independent decisions.

Question 5

Trait approach

Answer 5

• Born with the capacity to take charge, qualities are inherited.
• Stable personality disposition
• ## Not a good predictor of behaviour

Question 6

Social Learning Theory

Answer 6

All behaviour is learned through contact with environmental forces (e.g. role models, team mates, coach)
- It does not take into account the trait perspective.

Question 7

Interactionist Theory

Answer 7

Leadership skills emerge because of a combination of inherited abilities and learned skills. Leadership is triggered by a situation.

Question 8

The Multi-Dimesional Model

Answer 8

Chelladurai identified three influences that interact to produce effective leadership:
- Two outcomes: Degree of success, extent of satisifaction
- Why the leader adopted the certain behaviour: Its dependent on -
1. situational characteristics
2. Leader characteristics
3. Group member characteristics
Then Chellandurai recognised three behaviour types that impact on a leader:
1. Required behaviour
2. Actual behaviour
3. preferred behaviour