WEEK 1 - Defining Leadership

Question 1

Reward Power

Answer 1

Give someone a benefit in exchange for doing what the leader wants

Question 2

Coercive Power

Answer 2

Forces others to do something using punishment

Question 3

Legitimate Power

Answer 3

Power by virtue of a role. Position power, norms of reciprocity, fairness, responsibility

Question 4

Information Power

Answer 4

Providing believable information to a person that results in them thinking/acting in a different way.

Question 5

Expert Power

Answer 5

Knowledge or skills required by someone else

Question 6

Referent Power

Answer 6

Another person likes you or wants to be you.

Question 7

Authentic Leadership

Answer 7

the authenticity of leaders and their leadership is emphasized

Question 8

ethical leadership

Answer 8

draws attention to the appropriate conduct of leaders in their personal actions and interpersonal relationships, and the promotion of such conduct

Question 9

spiritual leadership

Answer 9

focus on leadership that utilizes values and sense of calling/membership to motivate followers

Question 10

discursive leadership

Answer 10

emphasize on communication practices that are negotiated between leader and follower

Question 11

humble leadership

Answer 11

in which leader’s humility allows them to show followers how to grow as a result of work

Question 12

inclusive leadership

Answer 12

focuses on diversity and leader behaviours that facilitate followers feeling of belonging while maintaining their individuality

Question 13

focus of group processes

Answer 13

From this perspective, the leader is at the center of group change and activity and embodies the will of the group.”

Question 14

personality perspective

Answer 14

suggests that leadership is a combination of special traits or characteristics that some individuals possess

Question 15

power relationship between leaders and followers

Answer 15

leaders have the power to to cause change in others

Question 16

transformational process

Answer 16

move followers to accomplish more than hat is expected of them

Question 17

leadership definition

Answer 17

a **process ** whereby an individual influences a group of indiviudals to achieve a common goal

leadership is not linear, it is an interactive event between both the leader AND follower.

Question 18

emphasis on common goals

Answer 18

mututal purpose, helps leaders and followers work together toward a common goal

Question 19

trait definition of leadership

Answer 19

leadership is defined by traits such as height, intelligence, fluency etc

Question 20

process definition of leadership

Answer 20

leadership is defined as the interaction between leader and follower

Question 21

assigned leadership

Answer 21

based on occuping a position in an organization

Question 22

emergent leadership

Answer 22

“When others perceive an individual as the most influential member of a group or an organization, regardless of the individual’s title, the person is exhibiting emergent leadership.”

Question 23

traits of an emergent leader

Answer 23

“being verbally involved, being informed, seeking others’ opinions, initiating new ideas
, and being firm but not rigid”

Question 24

Position power

Answer 24

legitimate, reward, coercive and information ## Footnote “ power a person derives from a particular office or rank in a formal organizational system.”

Question 25

personal power

Answer 25

referent and expert ## Footnote “influence capacity a leader derives from being seen by followers as likable and knowledgeable”

Question 26

leadership as a neutral process

Answer 26

“ leadership can be used for good ends or bad, and can be employed both by individuals who have worthy intentions and by those who do not.

Question 27

leadership as a moral concept

Answer 27

“influencing others to make changes to achieve a common good

Question 28

pseudotransformational leadership

Answer 28

“ refer to leaders who focus on their own personal goals over the common good and are self-consumed, exploitive, and power-oriented, with warped moral values”

Question 29

leadership and management

Answer 29

“They are different in that management traditionally focuses on the activities of planning, organizing, staffing, and controlling, whereas leadership emphasizes the general influence process.”