Chapter 11 Flashcards
- Leadership theories centering on the leader:
(Trait theory).(Behavior theory) (Personal situational theory) (Interaction expectation theory)
- Leadership theories centering on Followers and situational context:
(Motivation hygiene theory) (Situational theory) (Contingency theory) (path-goal leadership theory)(Meta-leadership theory)
- Leadership theories centering on Leader follower interactions:
(Leader follower exchange theory) (Transactional and transformational theories) (Psychodynamic approach)
- The theory that seeks to identify the individual traits distinguishing leaders from followers.
Trait theory.
- Theory that identifies the behaviors distinguishing leaders who achieve desired results.
Behavior theory.
- This theory represents one of the first attempts to define leadership.
Trait theory.
- Trait theory: In the early 1900s, ___ study great leaders to ___ the individual traits that ___ them and enabled them to ___ others to follow them.
Theorists, identify, distinguished, inspire.
- Theory which identified the following as traits of a leader: popularity, self-confidence, judgment, humor, aggressiveness, desire, adaptability, assertiveness, courage, decisiveness, intelligence, initiative, persistence, and the ability to cooperate.
Trait theory
- Under behavior theory which leaders engage in behaviors that are likely to achieve desired results
Effective leaders.
- Suggest that circumstances can cause an individual to take a leadership role.
Behavior theorists
- Those who study the behavior approach to leadership focus on two general types of behaviors:
– Task behaviors.– Relationship behaviors.
- These behaviors facilitate goal accomplishment.
Task behaviors.
- Which behavior occurs when a command officer directs (orders) a line officer to secure (protect) a crime scene.
Task behavior.
- These behaviors help others develop comfortable feelings about themselves, other people, and the situation.
Relationship behavior
- This behavior occurs when the command officer consults with the line officer about the best way to secure the crime scene.
Relationship behavior.
- These type of leaders combine task and relationship behaviors to influence others to achieve an objective.
Effective leaders.
- Behavior theory has it’s shortcomings, specifically, researchers have not established a link between…
Leadership behaviors and outcomes, and have not identified a universal leadership style that could be effective in most situations.
- Behavior theory has been validated by a wide range of studies and broadens scope of leadership research beyond the…
Limitations of trait theory.
- The first theory to address leadership’s full complexity.
Personal-Situational Theory
- This theory supposes that a mix of personal characteristics interact with specific conditions in the persons environment to create successful leadership.
Personal-Situational Theory:
- Effectiveness depends on the leader’s ability to understand followers and the environment in which the followers function, and to react appropriately as followers and the situation change.
Personal-Situational Theory
- Proposes that leadership is the act of initiating structure, (for accomplishing a task or an approach to resolving problems), that group members support.
Interaction-Expectation Theory
- Members support structure that helps solve problems, conforms to group norms, believe success will result if they follow the leader.
Interaction-Expectation Theory
- Theory proposing which factors increase satisfaction and dissatisfaction among employees.
Motivation-Hygiene Theory
- Theory developed by Frederick Herzberg in the 1950s.
Motivation-Hygiene Theory
- Motivation-Hygiene Theory, Frederick Herzberg conducted studies to determine…
which factors in an employees work environment caused satisfaction or dissatisfaction.
- Motivation-Hygiene Theory: Herzberg referred to Dissatisfiers (including supervision, working conditions, and salary) as…
Hygiene factors.
- Motivation-Hygiene Theory: According to Hertzberg, thee factors act Independently of each other.
job satisfaction, presumably motivation, and job dissatisfaction
- Motivation-Hygiene Theory: Satisfiers such as achievement recognition and advancement are referred to as…
Motivators
- The theory proposing that different situations demand different styles of leadership.
Situational theory.
- The theory that attempts to match leaders to specific types of situations.
Contingency theory.
- The theory suggesting that a leaders role is to enhance followers’ performance by motivating them and by rewarding achievement of goals.
Path-goal theory.
- Over arching leadership framework designed to link organizational units or organizations; attempts to transcend usual organizational confines.
Meta-leadership.
- Herzberg’s Motivation hygiene theory: Herzberg maintained that motivators provide satisfaction arising from…
The intrinsic conditions of the job, such as recognition and personal growth.
- Herzberg’s Motivation hygiene theory: Hygiene factors do not provide…
Satisfaction, although dissatisfaction results from their absence.
- Herzberg’s Motivation hygiene theory: These factors are all extrinsic to…
The work itself.
- Herzberg’s Motivation hygiene theory: Basically, positive hygiene factors (such as good working conditions and an attractive salary) are needed to…
Ensure that employees do not become dissatisfied.
- Herzberg’s Motivation hygiene theory: Today, most researchers do not view satisfaction and dissatisfaction factors as…
Existing separately.
- Herzberg’s Motivation hygiene theory: Further, this theory does not allow for individual differences (for example personality traits) that might…
Affect a person’s unique response to a motivating or a hygiene factor.
- Hersey/Blanchard’s Situational Theory: Counts as one of the most recognized…
Theories of leadership.
- Hersey/Blanchard’s Situational Theory: States different situations demand…
Different styles of leadership.
- Hersey/Blanchard’s Situational Theory: To be effective, leaders must adapt their leadership style to…
Specific characteristics of a situation, such as a follower’s skill level or degree of motivation.
- Hersey/Blanchard’s Situational Theory: Is practical, easily understood, and…
Prescriptive (it tells one what to do) rather than descriptive.
- This theory emphasizes leaders’ flexibility, and underscores the importance of adapting to followers’ unique needs.
Hersey/Blanchard’s Situational Theory:
- Shortcomings of this theory include, few studies have been conducted that justify the assumptions underlying the theory.
Hersey/Blanchard’s Situational Theory:
- This theory is similar to situational theory.
Contingency Theory.
- Developed in the 1960s, this theory reinforces the notion that effective leaders demonstrate styles that fit the situation.
Contingency Theory.
- Rather than focusing on a person’s ability to adopt a style that fits a situation, contingency theory attempts to…
Match leaders to specific types of situations.
- Research suggests that this theory is a valid and reliable approach to explaining effective leadership.
Contingency Theory.
- Moreover, this theory recognizes that leaders cannot be effective in all situations.
Contingency Theory.
- Its critics maintain this theory does not fully explain why certain leadership styles may be effective in some situations but not others.
Contingency Theory.
Critics point out this theory fails to support the notion that leaders can be taught adaptive skills necessary in changing situations.
Contingency Theory.
- This theory suggests that a leader’s role is to enhance followers performance by motivating them and by rewarding achievement of goals.
Path-Goal Theory.
- The path-goal approach suggests that leaders should use a style that…
Eliminates barriers to achievement of goals and meets followers’motivational needs.
- These leaders wish to transcend usual organizational confines and influence, motivate, and activate change above and beyond the established lines of their dominion and control.
Meta-Leaders.
- These leaders are driven and motivated by purposes broader than those prescribed by their former rolls.
Meta-leaders.
However, meta-leadership theorists tend to define leadership in terms of…
A recognized standard of authority a person holds in a formal role, rather than in informal as well as formal.
This theory emerged in the 70s, departs from theories that focused on leaders or on context.
Leader-Follower Exchange Theory.
- These theories focus on leaders.
-Trait Theory.-Styles Approaches.
- These leadership theories focus on context.
Situational or contingency approaches.
- This theory examines the relationships between leaders and followers.
Leader-Follower Exchange Theory.
- Leader-Follower Exchange Theory: Researchers discovered the following two types of relationships:
– In-group relationships.– Out-group relationships.
- Leader-Follower Exchange Theory: These relationships arise from expanded and negotiated role responsibilities.
In group relationships.
Leader-Follower Exchange Theory: Followers whose performance goes beyond the expected and who expand the roles with the leader become members of this group.
In-group.
- These relationships result from defined roles such as those found in employment contracts.
Out-group relationships.
- Followers who achieve only what is expected are members of…
The out-group.
- Later research into Leader-Follower Exchange Theory suggested that the quality of the exchange between leaders and followers is related to…
Positive outcomes for leaders, followers, groups, and organizations.
- According to Burns most leadership models propose a…
Transactional Theory (or process) in which leaders and followers make exchanges.
268.High quality leader-follower relationships reduce follower attrition and result in more positive:
– Performance evaluations.– Greater commitment to goal achievement.– Better attitudes.– More attention and support from the leader.
- This theory proposes a process through which leaders engage others and create a connection that enhances motivation and morality in themselves as well as followers.
Transformational Theory.
- With this kind of leadership, both leaders and followers raise each other to higher levels of consciousness and satisfaction.
Transactional Theory leadership.
- These leaders possess strong internal values and motivate others to put aside self-interest.
Transactional Theory
- This leadership theory’s weaknesses are that it makes vague references to motivation, vision, trust, and nurturing.
Transformational Leadership Theory.
- This theory tends to treat leadership as a personality trait rather than as a behavior that individuals can learn.
Transformational Leadership Theory.
- In practice, this type of leadership can also lead to abuse, if leaders change followers values in a destructive way.
Transformational Leadership
- When this type of leader influences followers to adopt inappropriate values, followers may be steered in the wrong direction.
Transformational Leaders.
269.An approach suggesting that leaders are more effective if hey have insight into the psychological makeup of themselves and their followers.
Psychodynamic Approach.
270.This approach can trace it’s origin to the work of Sigmund Freud in his development of psychoanalysis in the 1930s.
Psychodynamic Approach.
- It represents an approach to leadership rather than a coherent theory, because it adapts ideas from several behavioral theorists, scholars, and practitioners.
Psychodynamic Approach.
- According to this approach, leaders are more effective if they have insight into the psychological makeup of themselves and their followers.
Psychodynamic Approach.
- This approach makes none of the assumptions that underlie trait, behavioral, and situational leadership theories.
Psychodynamic Approach.
- This approach does not assume that a particular personality type is best suited for leadership, nor match leadership styles to followers or particular situations.
Psychodynamic Approach.
- The Psychodynamic Approach emphasizes the importance of leaders’ and followers’ awareness of their own personality characteristics, and of their…
Understanding of why and how they respond to each other as they do.
- According to Psychodynamic Approach, these leaders work to gain insights into their own tendencies and needs and help followers do the same.
Effective leaders.
- Critics of this approach are uncomfortable with the subjective nature of insight development.
Psychodynamic Approach.
- Critics point out research on this approach relies primarily on clinical observations of psychologists and psychiatrists, whose opinions may be biased in favor of the approach because it focuses on individuals.
Psychodynamic Approach.
- This approach does not account for organizational variables that might influence leaders’ and followers’ behavior.
Psychodynamic Approach.
- This ability can be measured objectively.
Leadership Skill.
- Someone others wish to follow, rather than someone who simply issues commands or coerces others into action.
A leader.
- Unknown Chinese philosopher statement on leadership.
When the best leader’s work is done, the people will say, “We did it ourselves”.
- Anyone in police agency can be this regardless of rank, position, or title.
A leader.
- Leadership requires mastery of specific skills, rather than…
Possession of particular qualities (such as inborn personal traits).
- An ability that can be measured objectively; that is, there are clear metrics for assessing results and determining whether a person has exhibited the skill.
A leadership skill.
- Leadership skills can be learned and developed through…
Experience, training, and education.
- What type of skill is demonstrating ethical behavior?
Key leadership skill.
- Few police leadership development programs certified by state commissions on peace officers or colleges focus on:
Ethical leadership development at all ranks, including police recruits.
- We strongly suggest that ethical leadership training and development are essential for all…
Police officers regardless of rank.
- While anyone can become a leader, most studies on leadership skills focus on…
Supervisory level leadership.
- Ortmeir (1996) is believed to be the first study to address…
Leadership skills required of front-line officers.
- The actual study by Ortmeir occurred in 1995, And focused on leadership skills essential for police officers in an environment that emphasizes…
Community participation, engagement, and problem-solving, All of which are important ingredients for effective policing.
- Ortmeier defined leadership as the…
Ability to influence or mobilize individual citizens, groups, businesses, and agencies to collaborate and participate In activities to discover solutions to community problems.
- This require skills beyond those traditionally taught in police academies and college classrooms.
Modern policing.
- Ortmeier grouped the skills his study identified into five major categories.
– Communications and related interpersonal skills.– Motivation.– Problem-solving.– Planning and organizing.– Actuation and implementation.
- 5 skill categories (essential for community policing): Communicating verbally and in writing, listening, and counseling.
Communications and related interpersonal skills category.
- Processing knowledge of different ethnic and racial cultures and demonstrating empathy.
Communications and related interpersonal skills category.
Facilitating interaction, maintaining group cohesiveness and member satisfaction, and speaking in public.
Communications and related interpersonal skills category
- Encouraging creativity and innovation, catalyzing proactive behavior in others.
Motivation skills category.
- Building teams and cooperative relationships, demonstrating persistence and consistency, and showing enthusiasm.
Motivation skills category.
- Committing to assignments, recognizing and encouraging other possible leaders, and demonstrating intellectual curiosity.
Motivation skills category.
- Analyzing situations, identifying and evaluating constituents needs, identifying and analyzing problems.
Problem-solving skills category.
- Adapting strategies to situations, mediating and negotiating, and enabling others to attain goals.
Problem-solving skills category.
- Prescribing prioritized actions to solve a problem.
Problem solving skills category.
- Promoting needed change, creating and maintaining a vision, defining objectives and maintaining progress toward them.
Planning and organizing skills category.
Prioritizing and assigning tasks, organizing resources.
Planning and organizing skills category.
- Creating and maintaining an environment that encourages open communication.
Planning and organizing skills category.
- Providing for and maintaining group processes, and delegating.
Planning and organizing skills category.
- Translating a Vision into action, completing multiple projects on schedule, and evaluating individual and group goals.
Actuation and implementation skills category.
- Evaluating individual and group goals, representing others’ interests and concerns.
Actuation and implementation skills category.
- Understanding and articulating the police agencies impact, learning from mistakes.
Actuation and implementation skills category.
274 Ortmeir study: All police officers must listen, understand the issue from residents perspective, and…
reassure residents that action will be taken.
- By acknowledging the presence of a concern or problem, officers forge a connection with community members. And once citizens realize…
Police want to join with them, change can occur.
- These leaders interact daily with other officers, with administrative personnel, and with elected or appointed officials.
Effective police officer leaders.
- These leaders regularly encounter people in the community who are perceived as unofficial leaders and ask for their opinions regarding the agency’s performance.
Effective police officer leaders.
- Effective police officer leaders regularly encounter people in the community who are perceived as this kind of leader.
Unofficial leaders.
- Effective police officer leaders asked for “their” opinions regarding the agency’s performance.
Unofficial leaders.
- These leaders encourage fellow officers to follow up with concerned community members.
Effective police officer leaders.
- These leaders take a participatory rather than an authoritative approach to establishing and managing interpersonal relationships.
The best police leaders.
- These leaders are empathetic and excel at persuasion and negotiation. All of these abilities hinge on a talent for communication.
The best police leaders.
- Like communication, motivation is a critical skill category for all officers seeking to…
Strengthen their leadership skills.
- What motivates one person to work toward a goal may not motivate another because motivation is a…
Subjective Phenomenon.
- To lead, police officers must understand what…
Motivates others – their subordinates, their superiors, politicians, and community members.
- Clean police officers must avoid trying to motivate through…
Fear and control.
- These leaders embrace the notion that people are motivated by different needs, whether for social connection, achievement, monetary reward, or other value to them.
Great leaders.
- To learn how to identify what most motivates another person, these leaders must become students of human nature.
Aspiring leaders.
- Although leadership and supervision (also called management) are interrelated, they…
Represent very different ways of operating.
- A leader may also be…
A supervisor.
- Not every supervisor is…
A leader.
- Leadership is thus broader than…
Supervision.
- Leadership occurs anytime a person…
Motivates another person or a group to produce change.
- Supervision occurs when someone…
Directs another toward organizational goals.
- Leadership is about…
Creating a better future.
- Supervision is about…
Maintaining order and consistency.
- He innovates.
A leader
He is an original.
A leader.
- He develops.
A leader.
- He focuses on people.
A leader.
- He inspires trust.
A leader.
He takes a long range view.
A leader.
- He asks what and why.
A leader.
- He keeps an eye on the horizon.
A leader.
- He challenges the status quo.
A leader.
- He is unique.
A leader.
- He does the right thing.
A leader.
- He administers.
A manager.
- He is a copy.
A manager.
- He maintains.
A manager.
- He focuses on systems and structures.
A manager.
- He relies on control.
A manager.
- He takes a short range view.
A manager.
- He asks how and when.
A manager.
- He keeps an eye on the bottom line.
A manager.
- He accepts the status quo.
A manager.
- He is the classic good soldier.
A manager.
- He does things right.
A manager.
- These police personnel are both leaders and supervisors, exhibiting leadership skills and also demonstrating solid supervisory skills.
The Police Leader-Supervisor.
- Their value blend of talents includes mentoring and role modeling, crisis management, resource management, and personnel development.
The Police Leader-Supervisor.
- They directly oversee the individuals who report to them and may act in a supervisory capacity for anyone who needs guidance.
The Police Leader-Supervisor.
- They teach subordinates to complete practical tasks associated with the job.
The Police Leader-Supervisor.
- They give directives that others acknowledge and follow.
The Police Leader-Supervisor.
- They serve as mentors and role models, so that subordinates seek development opportunities from them rather than from others.
The Police Leader-Supervisor.