2.3 Leadership and managment Flashcards

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Manager

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Responsible for setting objectives, organizing resources, and motivating staff to meet organization aims

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Leadership

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Art of motivating a group of people towards achieving a common objective

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Autocratic leadership

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  • Is centralized

* Keeps all decision making in the head of the organization

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Paternalistic leadership

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Fatherly style typically used by dominant males where power is used to control and protect subordinate employees who are expected to be loyal and obedient

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Democratic leadership

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  • Is decentralized

* Promotes active participation of staff with decision making

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Laissez faire leadership

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  • “Let them do it”

* Leaves much of the decision making to workforce

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Situational leadership

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Effective leadership varies with the task in hand, leader adapts their methods to the situation

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Ethical leadership

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Leading by knowing and doing what is “right”

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Informal organization

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  • Members engage in similar or same activities

* Hierarchy is nonexistent

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Formal organization

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  • Highly specialized activities

* Defined by rules and regulations

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