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What is "Leadership"? Also, list the 2 key components. |
Influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members. 1) Leaders motivate others through persuasion and other influence tactics 2) Leaders are enablers |
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What is "Shared Leadership"? |
The view that leadership is a role, not a position assigned to one person; Consequently, people within the team and organization lead each other. * Typically supplements formal leadership * Flourishes in organizations where the formal leaders are willing to delegate power and encourage employees to take initiative and risks without fear of failure. |
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What (4) categories can leadership be oragnized into? |
1) Transformational 2) Managerial 3) Implicit 4) Personal Attributes |
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What is "Transformational Leadership"? |
A leadership perspective that explains how leaders change teams or organizations by creating, communicating, and modelling a vision for the organization or work unit and inspiring employees to strive for that vision. |
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What are the (4) core concepts of Transformational Leadership? |
1) Develop and communicate a strategic vision 2) Model the vision 3) Encourage Experimentation 4) Build commitment to the vision |
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What is the difference between Transformational Leadership and Charisma? |
Transformational leadership motivates through behavoiurs that persuade and earn trust . Charisma motivates through the leader's inherent referent power. |
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What is "Managerial Leadership"? |
A leadership perspective stating that effective leaders elp employees improve their performance and well-being towards current objectives and practices (Daily activities) * Assumes objectives are stable and aligned with the external environment * More micro-focused and concrete * interdependent wth transformational mangement |
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What is "Task-Oriented Leadership"? |
Includes behaviours that define and structure work roles. These leaders assign employees to specific tasks, set goals and deadlines, clarify work duties and procedures, define work procedures, and plan work activities. |
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What is "People-Oriented Leadership"? |
Includes behaviours such as listening to employees for their opinions and ideas, creating a pleasant work environment, showing interest in staff, complimenting and recognising employees for their effort, and showing consideration of employee needs. |
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What is "Servant Leadership"? |
The view that leaders serve followers, rather than vice-versa; Leaders help employees fulfil their needs and are coaches, stewards, and facilitators of employee development. * Have natural desire/calling to help others |
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What is "Path-Goal Leadership Theory"? |
A leadership theory stating that effective leaders choose the most appropriate leadership style(s), depending on the employee and situation, to influence employee expectations about desired results and their positive outcomes. |
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What are the (4) different path-goal leadership styles? |
1) Directive - same as task-oriented 2) Supportive - same as people-oriented; provides psychological structures for subordinates 3) Participative - encourage and facilitate subordinate involvement in decisions beyond their normal work activities 4) Achievement-Oriented - emphasises behaviours that encourage employees to reach their peak performance. Applies goal-setting theory as well as positive expectations in self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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What are (4) of the contingencies of Path-Goal Theory? |
1) Skill and Experience 2) Locus of Control 3) Task Structure 4) Team Dynamics |
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What is "Situational Leadership Theory"? |
A commercially popular but poorly supported leadership model stating that effective leaders vary their style (telling, selling, participating, delegating) with the motivation and ability of followers. |
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What is "Fiedler's Contingency Model"? |
A leadership model stating that leader effectiveness depends on whether the person's natural leadership style is appropriately matched to the situation (the level of situational control). |
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What are "Leadership Substitutes"? |
A theory identifying conditions that either limit a leader's ability to influence subordinates or make a particular leadership style unnecessary. * May reduce the need for leaders but does not eliminate them in these situations. |
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What is "Implicit Leadership Theory"? |
A theory stating that people evaluate a leader's effectiveness in terms of how well that person fits preconceived beliefs about the features and behaviours of effective leaders (leadership prototypes) and that people tend to inflate the influence of leaders on organisational events. |
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What is the "Romance of Leadership Effect"? What are the 2 basic reasons for it? |
Followers tend to distort their perception of the leader's influence that leaders have on the organisation's success. 1) |
