Chapter 2 - Understanding leadership and management theories Flashcards

1
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What four components are centeral to the leadership concept?

Northhouse 2013

A

A.) Leadership is a process
B.) Leadership involves influence
C.) Leadership occurs in groups
D.) Leadership involves common goals

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2
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John Kotter described leadship as a process. What are the 3 subprocesses?

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  1. Establishing direction
  2. Aligning People
  3. Motivating and Inspiring
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3
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Managment looks at ____ time frames and Leaders look at ____ time frames

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Short
Longer

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4
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________ is defined as a process whereby one person influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal.

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Leadership

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5
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Robert Katz identified a three skilled approach for personal devlopment.

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  1. Technical
  2. Human
  3. Conceptual
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6
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Behavioral approach focuses on what__________

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leaders do and how they act

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7
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Impoverished Management

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Lowest level of concern for both results and people

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Authority-Compliance Management

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demonstrates high concern for results but a low concern for others.

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9
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Country club management

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Low concern for results and high concern for other people

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Middle of the road management

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believes there is an inherent contradiction between the concerns for results and for the people but does not value one concern over the other.

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11
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Which leadership style moves the decision making from the fire officer to the individual firefighters

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laissez-faire

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Team Management

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This manager sees no contradiction in demonstrating a high concern for both people and results at the same time.

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13
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The team managment model also demonstrates which leadership style?

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Democratic

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14
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Situational leadership

S1

A

High directive-low supportive or directing

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15
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Situational leadership

S2

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High directive-high support or coaching

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Situational leadership

S3

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High support-low directive or supporting

17
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Situational leadership

S4

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Low support-low directive or delegating

18
Q

______\_ give more attention to the charismatic and affective elements of leadership

A

Transformational Leadership

19
Q

5 fundamental practices that enable transformational leaders to get extraordinary things accomplished.

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  1. Model the way
  2. Inspire a shared vision
  3. Challenge the process
  4. Enable others to act
  5. Encourage the heart
20
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___\ _ is an approach that fouces on leadership from the point of view of the leader and his or her behaviors

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Servant Leadership

21
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Adaptive Leadership Definition

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Is how leaders encourage people to adapt when confronted with problems, challenges and changes.

22
Q

____ is a process whereby an Individual or individuals accept infulence or others to accomplish a common goal.

A

Followership

23
Q

Power is___________

A

the capacity of one party to influence another party

24
Q

Which power?

The target person believes that the agent has the right to make the request and the target person has the obligation to comply.

A

Legitimate Power

25
Q

Which power?

The target person complies to obtain rewards believed to be controlled by the agent

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Reward power

26
Q

Which power?

The target person complies due to a belief that the agent has speical knowledge.

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Expert Power

27
Q

Which Power?

The target person complies to avoid punishment believed to be controlled by the agent.

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Coercive power

28
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____ focuses on the task of managing people using physical, financial, and time assets.

A

Human resource management

29
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___ is the process of having the right number of people in the right place at the right time who can accomplish a task efficiently and effectively.

A

Human resources planning

30
Q

____ is the process of attracting, selecting, and maintaining an adequate supply of labor.

A

Staffing

31
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____ includes all activties to train and educate the employees.

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Human resources development

32
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Active Failures

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Are the unsafe acts committed by people who are in direct contact with the situation or system.

33
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Latent conditions

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are the invitable “resident pathogens” within the system.

34
Q

5 steps in the assertive statement process

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  1. Opening/attention getter
  2. State your concern
  3. State the problem as you see it
  4. State a soultion
  5. Obtain agreement or buy-in
35
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Recognition-primed decision making (RPD)

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describes how commandars can recognize a plausible plan of action.

36
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Naturalistic decision making

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describes how commandars make decsions in their natural environment

37
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____ is the ongoing activity of assessing what is going on around you during the complex and dynamic enviroment of a fire incident.

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Situational awareness