Leader as a Stylist Flashcards
Traits Approach:
Assumption: Leaders are born
Goal: Select leaders
Traits: Ambition, energy, honesty, integrity
Problems: Traits do not generalize across situations
Fails to clarify importance of different traits
Behavioural Appraoch
Assumption: Leaders can be trained because behaviors can be learend
Goal: Develop leaders
Ohio State Studies
Initiating Structure
Consideration
Problem: Effective do not generalize across situations
Skill Building Approach
Practice makes perfect
Boston Forum Group
Conceptual Awareness Approach
If you understand how to lead, you can lead
self awareness is road to leadership
Congers Study of Leadership
Feedback Approach
Personal Growth Approach
Passion is pathway to leadership
Fiedlers Contingency Model
Leaders cannot change their style; they always revert back.
Style fits the situation.
Task Oriented or Relation Oriented
Situational Favorableness of FCM
Leader Member Relations
Task structure
Position of Power
Effective Leader Behavior
Hershey and Blanchard Situational Model
Assumptions: Leader can change styles, style must fit situations
Goal: Train leaders to fit style to situation
Leader Behaviors: task behavior, relationship behavior
Situational Factor: Maturity of followers
-task maturity (ability and experience)
-psychological maturity (willingness to take responsibility)
Leader Characteristics
high confidence and assertiveness
strong commitment to a compelling vision
agent of radical change.`
Leaders as Shapers of Meaning
leaders frame issues for followers
followers make attribution of leaders behavior
some leaders are seen as heroic
charismatic, transformational
Goals: Select charismatic leaders for right situations
train leaders to be charismatic
Issues in leadership style
gender difference: women are more democratic
cultural difference: low vs. high power distance
