HR Comp Flashcards
Leadership Approach: Coercive
Leader imposes a vision or solution
Leadership Approach: Authoritative
Leader proposes a solution and invites team to join the challenge
Leadership Approach: Affiliative
Leader creates strong relationships and encourages feedback
Leadership Approach: Democratic
Leader invites followers to collaborate and acts by consensus
Leadership Approach: Coaching
Leader develops team members’ skills
Trait Theory
- Leaders possess innate characteristics
- Equates characteristics and leadership without evidence
- May discourage leader development
Behavior School
Leaders influence group members through certain behaviors
Blake-Mouton Theory
Low task (work to be done) High employee relationships
Examples: Country club mangers, impoverished managers, team leaders, authoritarian managers
Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership
Leadership Style matches skills/experience of team members
Telling - Selling - Participating - Delegating
Fielder’s Contingency Theory
Leaders change situations to make it more “favorable” and more likely to produce good outcomes
Path-Goal Theory
Leaders help EE stay on track toward goals
Emergent Leadership
- Leader is not appointed but emerges from the group
- The group chooses the leader based on integrations
Transactional leader
- Emphasizes leader’s preference for order and structure
- More common in military and large, multinational organizations
Transformational leader
- Emphasizes leader’s ability to inspire EE to embrace change
- Encourages communication, cooperation, collaboration
Leader-member Exchange
- Focuses on 2-way relationship between leaders and chosen EE
- Can contribute to growth and productivity but can also create in-group and out-groups
Servant leader
- Leader’s goal is to serve the needs of their EE
- Leaders tend to be more empathetic and more trusted by EE
Legitimate power
Created formally through a title or position
Reward power
Created when followers receive something they value in exchange for commitment
Expert power
Created when a leader possesses great intelligence, insight, or experience
Referent Power
Created by the force of leader’s personality
Coercive Power
Created when the leader has the power to punish non-followers
Theory X
Leaders believe that people must be strictly controlled and forced to work
Theory Y
Leaders believe that EE dislike rigid controls and inherently want to accomplish something
Maslow Needs Theory
Individuals are motivated by a desire to satisfy certain needs
