Bus 1010 Chapter 9 Flashcards
Leadership
The process and behaviors used by someone, such as a manager, to motivate, inspire, and influence the behaviors of others.
Trait Approach to Leadership
Focused on identifying the essential traits that distinguish leaders.
Behavioral Approach to Leadership
Focused on determining what behaviors are employed by leaders.
Task-focused Leader Behavior
Leader behavior focusing on how tasks should be performed in order to meet certain goals and to achieve certain performance standards.
Employee-focused Leader Behavior
Leader behavior focusing on satisfaction, motivation, and well-being of employees.
Situational Approach to Leadership
Assumes that appropriate leader behavior varies from one situation to another.
Transformational Leadership
The set of abilities that allows a leader to recognize the need for change, to create a vision to guide that change, and to execute the change effectively.
Transactional Leadership
Comparable to management, it involves routine, regimented activities.
Charismatic Leadership
Type of influence based on the leader’s personal charisma.
Leadership Substitutes
Individual, task, and organizational characteristics that tend to outweigh the need for a leader to initiate or direct employee performance.
Leadership Neutralizers
Factors that may render leader behaviors ineffective.
Strategic Leadership
Leader’s ability to understand the complexities of both the organization and its environment and to lead change in the organization so as to enhance its competitiveness.
Ethical Leadership
Leader behaviors that reflect high ethical standards.
Virtual leadership
Leadership in settings where leaders and followers interact electronically rather than in face-to-face settings.
Decision Making
Choosing one alternative from among several options.
