Chap 8 Flashcards
Leadership
Process of providing directions and influencing individuals or groups to achieve goals
Effective leadership
Creating and communicating the orginizationial vision
Communication and gaining support
Leadership
Anyone who initiates with others followings 1️⃣
Traits of leadership
Integrity
Self confidence
Drive
Motivations
Intifredity - honesty
Cognitive ability
Behavioral theories employee
employee centered
Understand employees personal needs and the developing of interpersonal relationships
Job centered - supervise employees
Considerations
Express friendliness
Develop mutual trust
Build strong interpersonal relationship
Initiating
Establish well defined patterns of organization and communications
Contingency theories of leadership
Leaders effectively depend on degree to which the leader enhances employee performance expectations and value of his subordinates
Expectancies
Perceived probability of goal attaintment
Valances
Value or attractiveness of goal attaintment
Directive leadership *
When associates ned direction in task
Supportive leadership *
When employees want emotional support
Achievement oriented leadership *
Needed for challenging tasks or when employees need to take initiative
Participate leadership *
Needed when employees need limited direction and support
(Listen and implement )
Situational factors
Subordinates characteristic needs
Locus of control
Personal control
Experiences
Ability
Work environment
Task structure
Role conflicts and clarity
Interpersonal relationship
Contingent rewards
Leaders reward what followers need . If task is done they are rewarded
Transcaxtionsl leadership
Based on the exchange relationship between leaders and followers
Active management by exception
Clarification on minimal performance standards and punishing those who do not perform to standards
Lazzze fair
Avoiding responsibility and non responsible to followers
Transactional leadership is *
Telling leadership style
Both positive and negative reinforcement
Reactively leaders
Appeals to self interest of ppl
Charisma
Inspire emotion and passion - get followers to identify with leader
Intellectual stimulation
Increase focus on problems and develop new ways to solve them
Individual consideration
Support and develop self confidence and a desire to improve performance
Based on trust
