Lecture 6

Question 1

What is leadership

Answer 1

The ability to influence people toward the attainment of goals.
Is dynamic and involves the use of power

Question 2

What is power

Answer 2

The potential ability to influence the behavior of others.
Represents the resources with which a leader effects changes in employee behavior.

Question 3

Trends in leadership theory

Answer 3

Trait approach
Style approach
Contingency approach
New leadership approach

Question 4

Leadership is socially embedded

Answer 4

Leaders has life experience that affect.
Non traditional knowledge for success and make differences:
the core values, traditions, social codes

Question 5

Leadership styles

Answer 5

Transactional
Transformational
Visionary
Charismatic
Ethical

Question 6

Transactional leadership

Answer 6

Involves an exchange process that may result in follower compliance with leader requests but it is not likely to generate enthusiasm and commitment to task and objectives
Ex. middle management, military, nil coaches

Question 7

Transformational leadership

Answer 7

the followers feel trust, admiration, loyalty and respect towards the leader. Motivated to do more than they are expected to do.
Ex. CEO, Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 8

Visionary leadership

Answer 8

Transforming an organizational culture in line with the leader’s vision of the organizations future.
Transform organizational cultures in existing organizations and arrive at results that many didn’t believe to be possible.
Their vision usually inspires changes in adjacent business industries.
Ex. Steve Jobs

Question 9

Charismatic leadership

Answer 9

Arouses during crises, the periods of major uncertainty and turbulence, and a leader naturally emerges to take charge rather than is appointed.
Do not lead with authority, but with charisma and personality. They lead people without offering instant goals.
Ex. politics, religion, entertainemnt

Question 10

Ethical leadership

Answer 10

Refers to leaders who make an effort to influence the ethical behavior of others.
Ex, CEO to junior managers, all size organizations.
Leaders who are concerned with how numbers are achieved as well as the organization’s impact on employees and the environment

Question 11

Types of followers

Answer 11

alienated follower, conformist, pragmatic survivor, passive follower, effective follower

Question 12

Types of power

Answer 12

Legitimate power, reward power, coercive power, expert power, referent power