Leaders and Leadership

Question 1

Leadership and Interaction?

Answer 1

• Leader is not synonymous with supervisor.
• Leadership is not a particular trait some people have and others do not
• It is a process that takes place in every human interaction

Question 2

Formal Leadership?

Answer 2

Designated through official position

Carries formal authority

Question 3

Informal Leadership?

Answer 3

• Emerge at any time and could be anyone
• Interactional: Takes place through communication
• Contextual…Different people contribute in different circumstances
• Process…Changes with changing needs and personnel

Question 4

LOOK AT PAIN IN THE HOSPITAL CASE STUDY

Answer 4

UMM DO IT

Question 5

Trait Approach to Leadership?

Answer 5

• Assumes that some people are natural born leaders
• Attempt to identify traits of effective leaders (across situations)
• No definitive traits linked across leadership situations

Question 6

Situational Approach to Leadership?

Answer 6

Leader varies behavior based on “readiness of the followers (maturity)
This determines emphasis on task and relational (influenced by situation)
Task and reward? hershey and blanchard
-Leaders assumed to have an “Average leadership style”..leader behaviors applicable in all situations SHIFTED

Question 7

Charasmatic Leaders?

Answer 7

• House (1977)
• Includes…Followers identification with the leader…and the leader’s ability to communicate emotional involvement with the mission
• Includes traits and behaviors of the leader (What effect on peoples connection and emotion.

Question 8

What theorist argued that there were two types of leaders? And what were they?

Answer 8

Bass (1985) Transactional and Transformational

Question 9

What is a transactional leader?

Answer 9

• Focused on contingent rewards
• Followers have goals, and are rewarded/punished based on whether they meet those performance goals
• Leaders monitor performance and goals (SEEEING EYE DOG)

Question 10

What is a transformational leader?

Answer 10

Leaders appeal to higher order needs of followers…Involve several tactics

• Leaders must have ATTRIBUTED charisma (
• Idealized influence (Role model, others look how to do it)
• Inspirational Motivation (continue despite hardships
• Intellectual stimulation (Think creatively, multiple solutions
• Individualized concern for each employee

Question 11

What is relational leading?

Answer 11

It is transformational, but.

The focus is on the relational process of people working together for a common good

Question 12

What are the 5 principles of relational leading?

Answer 12

Inclusiveness ( appreciate multiple perspectives)
Empowerment (open to genuine participation, power must not be held by leader)
Ethics (Hold self and others to moral principles
Purposefulness (be committed an motivate others for goal..common good)
Process Orientation (Understand Group Process)