GMS Chap 11 Flashcards
Leadership
The process of inspiring others to work hard to accomplish important tasks
Power
The ability to get someone else to do something you want done or to make things happend the way you want
Reward Power
The capacity to offer something of value as a mean to influence other people
Coersive Power
The capacity to punish or withhold positive outcome as means of influencing other people
Legitimate power
Capacity to influence other people by virtue for formal authority, or the rights of office
Expert Power
The capacity to influence other people because of specialized knowledge
Referent Power
The capacity to influence other people becaus they desire to identify personally with you
Position Power
Based on things Managers can offer to others
Personal Power
Based on how managers are viewed by others
Vision
A clear sense of the future
Visionary leadership
Brings to the situation an clear sense of the future and an understanding of how to get there
Servant leadership
It is follower-centered and commited to helping others in their work
Empowerment
Enables others to gain and use decision-making power
Servent leader
Empower others by providing them with the information, responsability, authority, and trust to make decisions and act independently
Leadership Style
Recurring pattern of behaviours exibited by a leader
Blake and Mouton’s 2 dimentions of leadership style
- Concern for the task
- Concern for the people
Autocratic Leadership Style
Leader acts in a unilateral, command and control fashion
Human Relations leadership Style
Emphasizes people over tasks
Laissez Faire Leadership Style
Typical of the impoverished manager, focuses on minimum effort to get work done
Democratic Leadership Style
Focuses on both Task and people, trying to get things done while sharing information …