leadership Flashcards
describe the role of a leader
- provide guidence
- motivates team
- set goals
- gives feedback
identify characteristics of an effective leader
- highly knowledgeable
- empathy
- good communication skills
- organisational skills
- charisma
describe the autocratic style of leadership
- leader makes all decisions
- no input from team
- adopts a task orientated approach in order to get resutlts and reach targets
- leadr must stay on contact with team or they tend to switch off when this style is used
describe the democratic style of leadership
- leader seeks opinion of team before making a decision based on their suggestions
- person-orientated approach
- tram usually continues to work when coach is not present
describe the laissez faire style of leadership
- leader makes very few decisions
- gives very little feedback
- individual group members mostly do as they wish and make thier own decisions
explain the use of an autocratic style of leadership
- dangerous situations
- when discipline and control are needed
- hostile groups involved
- lack of time
- cognitive learner/ team players and males prefer it
explain the use of a democratic style of leadership
- suits more advanved athletes who have knowledge
- good to motiavte groups
- task is not dangerous
- femals/ small groups/ individual sports
explain the use of leissez faire style of leadership
- suitbale for high-level performers
- helps develop creativity
- used when leader has full trust in members
- used in assessment situations
decsribe the trait perspective model of leadership
- males are more predetermined to be leaders genetically
- traits are behaviours thta are predetermined rather than learnt
- people are born with leadership styles like comfidence and assertion
- these trait characteristics are consistent across diffrerent situations (stable & enduring)
what are the probelms with the trait perspective theory of leadership
- many leaders do not show leadership characteristics unless as situation demands it
- many leaders do not show leadsership characteristsis unless others are present to be copied or influences are present
- females are just as able as males to be leaders
describe social learning theory in relation to leadership
- leadership characteristics are learnt from others
- behaviour of others is watched and copied (vicarious learning)
- you are more likely to copy the behaviour of others if the are of higher status
- shows importance of social environment for adopting leadership qualities as opposed to the trait approach
what are the problems with the social learning theory for leadership
- not a successful theory because different people exposed to same role models do not all display leadership characteristics
- importance of situationsl/ environmental factors makes this theory invalid
- e.g. aggression of a well respected captain may not be copied by all players in the team
decsribe interactionist theory of leadership
- involves the interaction of traits and the chnaging environment
- an individual may have certain in-born traits such as assertiveness, but they are not evident unless a situation demands the leadership behaviour e.g. environment triggers certain leadership traits - gender might trigger us to use the autocratic style
- people may not be leaders in everyday life bbut can how leadership in sports situations e.g. rugby player shows leadership cause the aim is to win
what are the problems with the interactionist theory of leadership
does no take into account those that are predictable/ consistent in their behaviours or those who are natural leaders in every situation e.g. a school pupil is head boy and captain of school rugby team
draw Chelladaurai’s multi-dimensional model of sports leadership
