Week 5 (Leadership in the workplace)

Question 1

Leadership vs Management

Answer 1

-Vision VS Planning
-Inspiring VS Controlling
-Emotional VS Rational
-Doing the right thing VS Doing something right

Question 2

What is leadership

Answer 2

“Leading others towards a shared goal by fostering motivation, co-ordinating the process, giving direction and organising the process

Leaders can be

-Reciprocal: Leaders and followers influence each other
-Transactional: Working towards a joint reward - leaders and followers exchange resources
-Transformational: Leaders inspire followers and motivate
-Co-operative: suggestions made by leaders are voluntarily accepted by followers

Question 3

Lots of theoretical domains for leadership, but what are the agreed core properties underpinning leadership

Answer 3

1. It is aspirational
2. It is future oriented
3. It revolves around collective responsibility

Question 4

Concepts of good and bad are subjective, a leader is effective when they successfully influence leaders to reach goals that have been set, a “bad leader” could still be an effective leader.

Answer 4

Good leaders:
-Integrity
-Competence
-Decisiveness
-Vision

Bad leaders
-Dark triad traits of narcissism, machiavellian, psychopathy
-Machiavellian leaders: Do anything to maintain power and status
-Narcissistic leaders : Self-important, arrogance, lack of empathy - do anything to maintain power

Question 5

Traits associated with good leadership

Answer 5

-Sociability
-Confidence
-Intelligence
-Need for dominance

-Also linked to “The Big Five”, especially openness to experience + conscientiousness

Question 6

Dark Triad traits and leadership?

Answer 6

-Diller et al (2021) did a study that found that dark triad traits were positively correlated with higher leadership levels
-Intercorrelation between the dark triad traits
-Importance of promoting ethical values, and the importance of trust and teamwork

-Volmer et al (2016) found Narcissism had no adverse impact
-But found machiavellianism and psychopathy had poorer wellbeing and career outcomes for employees.