Chapter 12: Leadership and Trust Flashcards
The ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or a set of goals
Leadership
Is the extent to which a leader is likely to define and construct her role and those of employees in the search for goal attainment.
Initiating Structure
Is the extent to which a person’s job relationship are characterized by mutual trust, respect for employees’ ideas, and regard for their feelings.
Consideration
Emphasized interpersonal relationships by taking a personal interest in employees’ needs and accepting individual differences.
Employee-Oriented Leader
Emphasized technical or task aspects of jobs, focusing on accomplishing the group’s task.
Production-Oriented Leader
A questionnaire that identifies leadership style by measuring whether a person is task-oriented or relationship-oriented
Leaser Preferred Co-Worker (LPC)
Is the degree of confidence, trust, and respect members have in their leader.
Leader-Member Relations
Is the degree to which the job assignments are procedurized (that is, structured or unstructured)
Task Structure
Is the degree of influence a leader has over power variables such as hiring, firing, discipline, promotions, and salary increases.
Position Power
It focuses more on the followers. It says successful leadership depends on selecting the right leadership style contingent on the followers’ readiness, the extent to which followers are willing and able to accomplish a specific task.
Situational Leadership Theory (SLT)
It extracts elements from Ohio State leadership research on initiating structure and consideration, and the expectancy theory of motivation.
Path-Goal Theory
Key Characteristic of a Charismatic Leader
Vision and Articulation
Personal Risk
Sensitivity to Followers Needs
Unconventional Behavior
Has a vision–expressed as an idealized goal–that proposes a future better that the status quo; and is able to clarify the importance of the vision in terms that are understandable.
Vision and Articulation
Willing to take on high personal risk, incur high costs, and engage in self-sacrifice to achieve the vision.
Personal Risk
Perceptive of others’ abilities and responsive to their needs and feelings.
Sensitivity to Followers Needs
Engages in behaviors that are perceived as novel and counter to norms.
Unconventional Behavior
A long-term strategy for attaining a goal by linking the present with a better future for the organization.
Vision
A formal articulation of an organization’s vision or mission.
Vision Statement
Who guides their followers toward established goals by clarifying role and task requirements.
Transactional Leaders
Who inspires followers to transcend their self-interests for the good of the organization.
Transformational Leaders
Characteristic of Transactional Leaders
Contingent Reward
Management by Exception (Active)
Management by Exception (Passive)
Laissez-Faire
Contracts exchange of rewards for effort, promises rewards for good performance, recognizes accomplishments.
Contingent Reward
Watches and searches for deviation s form rules and standards, takes correct action.
Management by Exception (Active)
Intervenes only if standards are not met.
Management by Exception (Passive)