(11) Leadership Flashcards

Question

What three factors are involved in situational control?

Answer 1

- Leader-member relations - Task structure (clear tasks/structure) - Position power (how much power leader has over followers)

Answer 2

Predictive theory that is supported by empirical research (eg. Strube & Garcia, 1981) -Provides a way to assess leader style that could be useful to an organization

Answer 3

- Leadership can change? - There is some doubt whether the LPC is a true measure of leadership style - Is leader-member relations more important than task structure, which is more important than position power?

Answer 4

- Conforming closely to group norms - Ensuring that the group feels that leader appointed democratically - Seen to have competence to fulfil objectives - Seen to identify with the group

Answer 5

- In group subordinate - Out group subordinate - Continuum of quality of exchange relationships between leader and follower - High quality LMX relationships are associated with better performing and more satisfied workers

Answer 6

Provides vision and sense of mission, instils pride, gains respect and trust

Answer 7

Communicates high expectations, uses symbols to focus efforts, expresses important purposes in simple ways

Answer 8

Promotes intelligence, rationality, and careful problem solving. Stimulate creativity by questioning common assumptions

Answer 9

Gives personal attention, treats each employee individually, coaches, advises

Answer 10

- By stating a compelling vision of what the group can and should accomplish (Howell and Frost, 1989) - By offering a route of reaching their vision - By engaging in framing (Conger, 1991) - Master of impression management

Answer 11

- Charismatic traits and behaviours - Advocates a vision - Not keeper of the status quo- behaviour is out of the ordinary perceived as change-agent - Acts in several unconventional ways – counter to norms - Willingly makes self-sacrifices, takes personal risks, to support their vision - Strong self-confidence

Answer 12

- Match between the leader’s characteristics and the relevant schema of effective leadership - If your leadership schema = “intelligent”, more likely to endorse a leader the more you perceive as intelligent

Answer 13

-Leadership is an identity process where prototypical leaders are more effective than less prototypical leaders

Answer 14

- Trusted as ‘one of us’ - Attract attention and stand-out - Liked – facilities influence (we are more likely to follow orders from people we like)

Answer 15

- Talk up prototypically - Identify deviants or marginal members to highlight your own prototypically - Vilifying contenders for leadership and casting them as non-prototypical - Identify relevant comparison out-groups that are most favourable to their own prototypicality

Answer 16

- Perceptions of fairness and justice are critical to group life - Distributive justice (fairness in the outcome of decision) and procedural justice (fairness of the procedures used to make the decision) - Procedural justice in particularly important

Answer 17

social stereotypes of women inconsistent with people’s schemas of effective leadership

Answer 18

task instructions, correction of errors, etc

Answer 19

reassurance of positive esteem, relationship maintenance

Answer 20

- Groups arranged in a centralised fashion made fewer errors on the task than decentralised arrangement - Morale and job satisfaction higher in decentralised

Answer 21

- Smaller effects of status, gender, age? - More equal participation by members? - Focus on task content, but lack of nonverbal cues important for socioemotional interdependence, building trust - Harder for members to gain impression of others’ expertise - So they rely more on stereotypes