Group Dynamics Ch 9 Flashcards
Leadership
Guidance of others in the pursuit of individual and collective goals, often by directing, coordinating, motivating, supporting, and unifying their efforts; also, the ability to lead others.
Romance of Leadership
The tendency to overestimate the amount of influence and control leaders exert and their groups outcomes.
Two-Factor Model of Leadership
A descriptive model of leadership, which maintains that most leadership behaviours can be classified as either performance maintenance or relationship maintenance.
Leadership Substitutes Theory
A conceptual analysis of the factors that reduce or eliminate the need for a leader (substitutes) or prevent the leader from dispatching his or her responsibilities (neutralizers).
Great Leader Theory
A view leadership, attributed to historian Thomas Carlyle, which states that successful leaders possess certain characteristics that mark them for greatness and that such great leaders shape the course of history.
Zeitgeist Theory
A view of leadership, attributed to Leo Tolstoy, which states that history is determined primarily by the “spirit of the times” rather than by the actions and choices of great leaders.
Dark Triad (DT)
The set of three socially aversive personality qualities comprised of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy.
Emotional Intelligence
The component of social intelligence that relates to one’s capacity to accurately perceive emotions, to use information about emotions when making decisions, and to monitor and control one’s own and others’ emotional reactions.
Babble Effect
The tendency for group members who talk at a high rate in the group to emerge as leaders, even if the information they share with the group is of low quality.
Implicit Leadership Theories
Group members’ taken-for-granted assumptions about the traits. characteristics, and qualities that distinguish leaders from the people they lead; known as leader prototypes.
Social Role Theory
A conceptual analysis of the sex differences that recognizes men and women take on different types of roles in many societies and that these role expectations generate gender stereotypes and differences in the behaviour of women and men.
Terror Management Theory (TMT)
A conceptual analysis of the implicit psychological processes thought to defend individuals from the emotionally terrifying knowledge that they are mortal and will someday die.
Leadership Grid
A theory of management and leadership assuming that people vary in their concerns for results and their concern for people and that individuals who are high on both dimensions (9,9) are the best leaders (developed by Robert Blake and Jane Mouton).
Situational Leadership Theory
A theory of leadership suggesting that groups benefit from leadership that meshes with a group’s stage of development (developed by Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard).
Leader-Member Exchange Theory
A dyadic, relational approach to leadership assuming that leaders develop exchange relationships with each of their subordinates and that the quality of these leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships influences subordinates’ responsibility, decision influence, access to resources, and performance.
