Chapter 12: Leadership in Organizational Settings

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Shared Leadership

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The view that leadership is broadly distributed, rather than assigned to one person, such that people with the team and organization lead each other.

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Leadership

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Influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members.

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What are the 5 perspectives of leadership?

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What is the Competency Perspective of Leadership?

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Several leadership competencies - skills, knowledge, aptitudes, and other personal characteristics - that associate effective leaders.

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What are the main categories in the Competency Perspective?

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Authentic Leadership

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The view that effective leaders need to be aware of, feel comfortable with, and act consistently with their values, personality, and self-concept.

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Authentic Leadership- Know yourself & Be yourself

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Competency Limitations

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Behavioural Perspective of Leadership consists of:

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Leaders are directive when they…

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Leaders are Supportive when they:

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Servant Leadership

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The view that leaders serve followers, rather than vice versa; leaders help employees fulfill their needs and are coaches, stewards, or facilitators of employee performance.

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What is the Contingency Perspective of Leadership?

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Based on the idea that the most appropriate leadership style depends on the situation.

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Path-Goal Leadership Theory

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A contingency theory of leadership based on the expectancy theory of motivation that relates several leadership styles to specific employee and situational contingencies.

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Path-Goal Leadership Styles:

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Employee Contingencies:

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Environmental Contingencies:

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Leader Effectiveness:

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What are the Contingency Theories?

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Situational Leadership Theory

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A commercially popular but poorly supported leadership model stating that effective leaders vary their style (telling, selling, participating, delegating) with the “readiness” of followers.

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Fiedler’s Contingency Model

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An early contingency leadership model, developed by Fred Fiedler, which suggests that leader effectiveness depends on whether the person’s natural leadership style is appropriately matched to the situation.

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Leadership Substitutes

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A theory identifying contingencies that either limit a leader’s ability to influence employees or make a particular leadership style unnecessarily.

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Transformational Leadership

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A leadership perspective that explains how leaders change teams or organizations by creating, communicating, and modelling a shared vision for the team or organization, and inspiring employees to strive for that vision.

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Transactional Leadership

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Leadership that helps organizations achieve their current objectives more efficiently, such as by linking job performance to valued rewards and ensuring that employees have the resources needed to get the job done.

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Managerial Leadership

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A perspective stating that effective leaders help employees improve their performance and well-being in the current situation.