Leadership Flashcards
What’s leadership?
Ability to influence a group towards the achievement of a vision or set of goals. Nonsanctioned leadership is often as important or more important than formal influence.
Explain the trait theories of leadership.
Theory with the focus on personal qualities and characteristics. The search for personality, social, physical, or intellectual attributes that differentiate leaders from non-leaders goes back to the earliest stages of leadership research. For example extraversion to be the most predictive trait of effective leaders, but it is more strongly related to the way leaders emerge than to their effectiveness and unlike agreeableness and emotional stability conscientiousness and openness to experience also showed strong relationships to leadership, though not quite as strong as extraversion.
Explain the behavioral theories of leadership.
This theories imply we can train people to be leaders.
Ohio University Studies found two behaviors that accounted for most leadership behavior:
1. Initiating structure
2. Consideration
Characterize transformational leadership.
Creativity, decentralization of responsability, propensity to take risks, compensation is geared towards long-term results, greater agreement among top managers about the organization’s goals.
What’s abusive supervision?
Refers to the perception that a supervisor is hostile in their verbal and nonverbal behavior. Leads to decreases in organizational commitement, job satisfaction and employee productivity and increases work-family conflict, changes to get depressed, emotional exhaustion and health issues overall.
What’s servant leadership?
Leaders that go beyond their self-interest and instead focus on opportunities to help followers grow and develop. Includes listening, empathizing, actively developing followers’ potentioal,…
What’s trust and how does it affect leadership?
Trust is a psychological state that exists when you agree to make yourself vulnerable to another because you have positive expectations about how things are going to turn out. When trust is broken, it can have serious adverse effects on a group’s performance, since you don’t trust your leader anymore.
Does leadership affect directly on an organization’s success or failure?
No, normally is due to factors outside the influence of leadership. The attribution theory of leadership says leadership is merely an attribution people make about other individuals.
How to select and train the best leader?
Selecting Leaders:
1. Identifying effective leaders
2. Plan for a change in leadership
Training Leaders:
1. Leadership training is likely to be more successful with
high self-monitors.
2. Teach implementation skills.
3. Teach trust building, mentoring, and situational-analysis.
4. Behavioral training through modeling exercises can increase an individual’s charismatic leadership qualities.
5. Review leadership after key organizational events.
6. Train in transformational leadership skills.
To sum:
- For maximum leadership effectiveness, ensure that your preferences on the initiating structure and consideration dimensions are a match for your work dynamics and culture.
- Hire candidates who exhibit transformational leadership qualities and who have demonstrated success in working through others to meet a long-term vision. Personality tests can reveal candidates higher in extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness, which may indicate leadership readiness.
- Hire candidates whom you believe are ethical and trustworthy for management roles and train current managers in your organization’s ethical standards to increase leadership effectiveness and reduce abusive supervision.
- Seek to develop trusting relationships with followers, because, as organizations have become less stable and predictable, strong bonds of trust are replacing bureaucratic rules in defining expectations and relationships.
- Consider investing in leadership training such as formal courses, workshops, and mentoring.
