Chapter 11 Leadership and Supervision Flashcards
- Researchers later in the 20th century theorized that (__ __ __ __) (not a person’s inborn traits) most strongly determined whether leadership occurred?
(characteristics of the situation)
- Researchers in the early 20th century suggested leaders had (__ __) that differentiated them from followers.
(inherent traits)
- Today, scholars emphasize leaders’ ability to motivate, influence, and persuade over their ability to…
control and direct others.
- Today many scholars argue that anyone can learn to become a leader.with the…
right training and experience.
- Leader centered theories.
– Trait theory.
– Behavior theory.
– Personal/situational.
– Interaction/expectation.
- Follower/situational context centered theories.
– Motivation-hygiene. – Situational. – Contingency. – path-goal theory. – Meta-leadership.
- Seeks to identify individual traits distinguishing leaders from followers.
Trait theory. (leader centered)
- Leader-follower interactions centered.
–Leader follower exchange
–Transactional/transformational
–Psychodynamic approach
- This theory represents one of the first attempts to define leadership.
Trait theory. (leader centered)
- Identifies the behaviors distinguishing leaders who achieve desired results.
Behavior theory. (leader centered)
- Early 1900s, theorists studied great leaders to identify individual traits distinguishing and enabling them to inspire others to follow.
Trait theory. (leader centered)
- Theory identifying the ability to cooperate, popularity and adaptability, aggressiveness, decisiveness, assertiveness, confidence, intelligence, persistence, courage, desire, humor, initiative, and judgment as leader traits.
Trait theory. (leader centered)
- Under behavior theory which leaders engage in behaviors that are likely to achieve desired results
Effective leaders.
- Theories about leadership have evolved for the past…
Century.
- Suggest that circumstances can cause an individual to take a leadership role.
Behavior theory theorists. (centered on the leader)
- Two types of behaviors focused on in behavior theory.
– Task behaviors.
– Relationship behaviors.
- Behavior types that 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 behaviors.
- This behavior type 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 shortcomings are, researchers have not established a link between (__ __) and outcomes, and have not identified a (__ __) style that could be effective in most situations.
(leadership behaviors) (universal leadership)
- Validated by wide range of studies and broadens scope of leadership research beyond limitations of trait theory.
Behavior theory. (leader centered)
- The first theory to address leadership’s full complexity.
Personal-Situational (leader centered)