Chapter 12: Leadership and trust Flashcards
What is the difference between Contrast leadership and management?
Managers create plans and oversee day-to-day operations. Leadership: The ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision
What are the conclusions of trait theories of leadership?
Extraversion has strongest relation to leadership
Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience also strongly related to leadership
Agreeableness and Emotional Stability are not correlated with leadership
Emotional Intelligence is correlated with leadership; however, this link is under-investigated
What are the behavioral theories and its main limitations?
we can determine leadership effectiveness by leader behavior, and perhaps train people to be leaders
The Ohio State Studies - Initiating Structure - Consideration The University of Michigan Studies - Production Oriented - Employee Oriented
What is the level of support of the contingency theories of leadershi?
Fiedler leadership model: Effective group performance depends on match between leader’s style and degree to which the situation gives the leader control
- Least-Preferred Co-worker (LPC) determines leadership style
Situational leadership theory: selecting the leadership style contingent on the followers’ readiness to accomplish a task
Path-goal theory: provide resources
What is the comparison of charismatic and transformational leadership?
C: Attributions of heroic leadership abilities when followers observe certain behaviors
T: Inspire followers to transcend their own self-interests for the good of the organization
What are the roles of ethics and trust in authentic leadership?
Authentic leaders know what they believe in and value, and act on those values and beliefs openly and candidly. Leaders set the ethical standard. Create trust
Trust: Taking risks, effective group work, sharing information, enhanched productivity
What does the role mentoring plays in our understanding of leadership.
Benefits of mentoring are primarily psychological
What are the challenges to the effectiveness of leadership?
Substitutes for and Neutralizers of Leadership
- Organizational variables can neutralize the leader’s influence or act as substitutes for leadership
How can organizations find or create effective leaders?
Selecting Leaders
Review knowledge, skills, and abilities needed
Use personality tests
Consider situation-specific experience
Training Leaders
Challenges to the Leadership Construct
Attribution Theory of Leadership
Substitutes and Neutralizers
Best leader?
The best leaders are ethical and authentic in addition to being charismatic
