Eng Ma Flashcards
an influence process that enable managers to get their people to do willingly what must be done, do well what ought to be done.
Leadership (Cribbin, J.J.)
defined as the process of influencing the activities of an organized group toward goal achievement. (
Leadership Rauch & Behling.)
discovering the company’s destiny and having the courage to follow it.
Leadership (Joe Jaworski)
interpersonal influence, exercised in a situation, and directed, through the communication process, toward the attainment of a specified goal or goals.
Leadership
(Tannenbaum,Weschler & Massarik)
A leader behavior that are directives given to employees to get things done and to ensure that organizational goals are met.
Task-oriented
A leader behavior that are genuinely care about the well-being of their employees, and they demonstrate their concern in their actions and decisions.
People-oriented leaders
A type of leader decision making where leaders make the decision alone without necessarily involving employees in the decision-making process.
Authoritarian
A type of leader decision making where employees participate in the making of the decision
Democratic
A type of leader decision making that leave employees alone to make the decision.
Laissez-faire
A style of leadership that places too much value on social acceptance while neglecting technical tasks.
nice guy
A style of leadership that neither obtains acceptance from others nor gets the job done.
loser
A style of leadership that balances both the needs of people and task factors.
compromiser
A style of leadership that is interested in getting the job done right without concern for human feelings.
task master
A style of leadership that gets the job done and at the same time makes everyone happy
ideal manager
The earliest and one of the most influential contingency theories was developed by Frederick Fiedler.Fiedler, F. (1967). A theory of leadership effectiveness.
Fiedler’s Contingency Theory
According to the theory, a leader’s style is measured by a scale called
Least Preferred Coworker scale (LPC).
If the leader has a good relationship with most people and has high position power, and the task at hand is structured, the situation is
very favorable
When the leader has low-quality relations with employees and has low position power, and the task at hand it relatively unstructured, the situation is
very unfavorable
Another contingency approach to leadership which argues that leaders must use different leadership styles depending on their followers’ development level employee readiness is the key factor determining the proper leadership style.
Situational Leadership Theory (Kenneth Blanchard and Paul Hersey)
A theory of leadership is based on the expectancy theory of motivation
Path-Goal Theory of Leadership
These are skills a leader must possess to enable him to understand and make decisions about work processes, activities, and technology.
Technical Skills
These skills refer to the ability of a leader to deal with people, both inside and outside the organization.
Human Skills
This skills refer to the “ability to think in abstract terms, to see how parts fit together to form the whole.”
Conceptual Skills
A leading activity that arrives at conclusions and judgments with respect to priority, personnel, resources, policies, organizational structures, and strategic
DECIDING
