Leadership Flashcards
Great person theory- leaders are born not made
Emphasise charismatic leader
Above average size physically attractive commanding charming sociable courageous intelligent persuasive and aggressive need for dominance talkative healthy
Evaluation of great person
Stodgy I’ll disagrees leadership is not mere procession of combination of traits too simplistic
Comber and Kanu go search for leadership persomalostioy is simplistic and futile
Core relations between these traits and effective leadership are low
Support for great person theory
Emphasis that effective leaders have special personalities not generally well supported
Little analytical or predictivitive value
Everyone has the capacity more or less to be an effective leader if situation is right
Some leadership behaviours or personal qualities may be more effective than others
From charisma to the big five ocean
Openness
Ontentiousness
Extra version
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
(Emotional stability)
Lipitt and white traits
AutocrTic - style of leadership uses directive controlling actions to enforce rules regulations activities and relationships
Democratic - takes collaborative response interactive action with followers concerning the group
Laissex fair leader fails to accept responsibility for group
Contingency / situational theories of leadership
Leadership effectiveness is contingent on the nature of the leadership situation
A leader of.a country
Leader of an organisation
Leader on football field
Leader of student workgroup
Fielders contingency theory
He created the least preferred co-worker scale(LPC)
The instructions is to think of all the different people with whom you have ever worked along side and think of one who you worked least well with then circle the number which applies
When interpreting the scoring on the lpc it identify a persons dominant leadership style Fiedler believes that this style is relatively fixed as part of one’s personality therfore difficult to change
Fielders contingency theory height to low
High lpc- if the least preferred co-worker is described in positive terms then you are interested in good personal relationships with the LPC- relationship orientation
Low LPC-if harsh towards lpc then you are primarily interested in productivity and would be task orientation
No leadership style is best in all situations success depends upon 3 dimensions
Quality of leader member relations
Clarity of structure of the task
Authority power leader
Participative theory of leadership
Leaders encourage participation and contributions from group member. Group members feel more relevant and committed to decision making process leader retains right to allow input of others
Used today by many companies where decisions are made by those who are most affected by. The decisions
Normative decision theory
Prescriptive. Theory indicating which of 5 styles a leader should adopt based on decision tree
Autocratic- subordinate input not needed
Consultative - input required but leader retains authority
Group decision making - leader and subordinate are equal partners
Leader member exchange theory
Explains how the quality of leadership follower relationships can differ
High quality lmx relationships members are favoured by leader and relieve rewards
Low quality lmx members are not favoured by leader receive few rewards
Leader categorisation theory
We all have schemas how we think a lease should behave in different situation
If you think a leader should be intelligent organised dedicated then you will more like,y Pericles that person with those traits more positively
Social identity theory
Effective leaders can. Transform individual actions into group actions people look to identify more closely with a group the6 pay closer attention to group prototypes
Being
leaders to shape and consolidate their sense of identity
Extends categorisation theory as people being pro typical makes you more influential more effective as a leader
