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Question 1

leadership

Answer 1

influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members

Question 2

shared leadership

Answer 2

the view that leadership is a role, not a position assigned to one person; consequently, people within the team and organization lead eachother.

Question 3

transformational leadership

Answer 3

a leadership perspective that explains how leaders change teams or organizations by creating, communicating, and modeling a vision for the organization or work unit and inspiring employees to strive for that vision.

Question 4

managerial leadership

Answer 4

daily activities that support and guide the performance and well being of individual employees and the work unit toward objectives.

Question 5

servant leadership

Answer 5

the view that leaders serve followers, rather than vice versa, leaders help employees fulfill their needs and are coaches, stewards and facilitators of employee development.

Question 6

path-goal leadership theory

Answer 6

states that effective leaders choose the most appropriate leadership styles depending on the employee and situation to influence employee expectations about desired results and their positive outcomes.

Question 7

situational leadership

Answer 7

a commercially popular but poorly supported leadership model stating that effective leaders vary their style with the motivation and ability of followers

Question 8

Fiedlers contingency model

Answer 8

a leadership model stating that leader effectiveness depends on wheather the person’s natural leadership style is appropriately matched to the situation

Question 9

leadership substitutes

Answer 9

theory ids conditions that either limit a leaders ability to influence subordinates or make a particular leadership style unnecessary

Question 10

implicit leadership theory

Answer 10

a theory stating that people evaluate a leaders effectiveness in terms of how well that person fits preconceived beliefs about the feature and behaviors of effective leaders and that people tend to inflate the influence of leaders on org events

Question 11

authentic leadership

Answer 11

the view that effective leaders need to be aware of, feel comfortable with, and act consistently with their values, personality and self-concept.