HR Competencies: Leadership Flashcards
Leadership Approaches
Coercive Authoritative Affiliative Democratic Pacesetting Coaching
Coercive
Imposes a vision or solution on the team and demands that the team follow this directive
Authoritative
Proposes a bold vision or solution and invites the team to join this challenge
Affiliative
Creates strong relationships with and inside the team, encouraging feedback. The Team members are motivated by loyalty
Democratic
Invites followers to collaborate and commits to acting by consensus
Pacesetting
Sets a model for high-performance standards and challenges followers to meet these expectations
Coaching
Focuses on developing team members’ skills, believing that success comes from aligning the organization’s goals with employees personal and professional goals
Universal Leadership Characteristics
Effective: Develop, Build Relationships, Model Values, Functional Expertise
Ineffective: Focus on internal rather than external, Lack strategy, Do not anticipate, Resist stretch goals
Leadership Thoeries
Trait, Behavioral , Situational, Emergent
Trait Theory
Possess certain innate characteristics
Behavioral Theory
Influence group members through certain behaviors
Blake Mouton Theory
Leadership invovles managing tasks and employees
Situational Theories
Flex to meet the needs of unique situations, employing task or directives and relationship or supportive with employees
Hersey Blanchard Situational Leadership
Adapt behaviors to meet the evolving needs of team members. Telling, Selling, Participating, Delegating
Fiedler’s Contingency Theory (How to Change to Fave)
Change the situation to make it more favorable and more likely to produce outcomes. Unfavorable situations must be changed through improving relationships, changing aspects of the task, increasein or decreasing leader power
