Chapter 2 - Understanding leadership and management theories Flashcards
What four components are centeral to the leadership concept?
Northhouse 2013
A.) Leadership is a process
B.) Leadership involves influence
C.) Leadership occurs in groups
D.) Leadership involves common goals
John Kotter described leadship as a process. What are the 3 subprocesses?
- Establishing direction
- Aligning People
- Motivating and Inspiring
Managment looks at ____ time frames and Leaders look at ____ time frames
Short
Longer
________ is defined as a process whereby one person influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal.
Leadership
Robert Katz identified a three skilled approach for personal devlopment.
- Technical
- Human
- Conceptual
Behavioral approach focuses on what__________
leaders do and how they act
Impoverished Management
Lowest level of concern for both results and people
Authority-Compliance Management
demonstrates high concern for results but a low concern for others.
Country club management
Low concern for results and high concern for other people
Middle of the road management
believes there is an inherent contradiction between the concerns for results and for the people but does not value one concern over the other.
Which leadership style moves the decision making from the fire officer to the individual firefighters
laissez-faire
Team Management
This manager sees no contradiction in demonstrating a high concern for both people and results at the same time.
The team managment model also demonstrates which leadership style?
Democratic
Situational leadership
S1
High directive-low supportive or directing
Situational leadership
S2
High directive-high support or coaching
Situational leadership
S3
High support-low directive or supporting
Situational leadership
S4
Low support-low directive or delegating
______\_ give more attention to the charismatic and affective elements of leadership
Transformational Leadership
5 fundamental practices that enable transformational leaders to get extraordinary things accomplished.
- Model the way
- Inspire a shared vision
- Challenge the process
- Enable others to act
- Encourage the heart
___\ _ is an approach that fouces on leadership from the point of view of the leader and his or her behaviors
Servant Leadership
Adaptive Leadership Definition
Is how leaders encourage people to adapt when confronted with problems, challenges and changes.
____ is a process whereby an Individual or individuals accept infulence or others to accomplish a common goal.
Followership
Power is___________
the capacity of one party to influence another party
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.
Legitimate Power
Which power?
The target person complies to obtain rewards believed to be controlled by the agent
Reward power
Which power?
The target person complies due to a belief that the agent has speical knowledge.
Expert Power
Which Power?
The target person complies to avoid punishment believed to be controlled by the agent.
Coercive power
____ focuses on the task of managing people using physical, financial, and time assets.
Human resource management
___ 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.
Human resources planning
____ is the process of attracting, selecting, and maintaining an adequate supply of labor.
Staffing
____ includes all activties to train and educate the employees.
Human resources development
Active Failures
Are the unsafe acts committed by people who are in direct contact with the situation or system.
Latent conditions
are the invitable “resident pathogens” within the system.
5 steps in the assertive statement process
- Opening/attention getter
- State your concern
- State the problem as you see it
- State a soultion
- Obtain agreement or buy-in
Recognition-primed decision making (RPD)
describes how commandars can recognize a plausible plan of action.
Naturalistic decision making
describes how commandars make decsions in their natural environment
____ is the ongoing activity of assessing what is going on around you during the complex and dynamic enviroment of a fire incident.
Situational awareness
