leadership Flashcards
What is leadership?
Leadership is a behavioural process which influences a group of people towards their goals.
What are the two types of leaders?
Prescribed leaders and emergent leaders.
What is a prescribed leader?
Prescribed leaders are appointed by a higher authority and being a leader is their main role; manager or coach of a team.
What is an emergent leader?
Emergent leaders are given the responsibility to be a leader as an extra role as their main role will be a player; team captain.
What are the two leadership appraoches?
Trait approach and Behavioural approach.
What is the trait approach?
Trait approach states people are born and predisposed to leader personality traits; a person who is a good leader in one situation is a good leader in all situations.
What is the behavioural approach?
The behavioural approach states people learn leadership behaviours from other effective leaders; leadership skills can be developed through experience and training.
What are the two leadership styles?
Autocratic leadership and Democratic leadership.
What is autocratic leadership?
Autocratic leadership is when the leader is in control of decisions and rules; players have very little input.
What is democratic leadership?
Democratic leadership is when everyone on the team has a say so even thought the leader still makes the final decision, they ask for others opinions and help.
What is Chelladuria’s multidimensional model of leadership?
Chelladuria’s multidimensional model of leadership relates situational, member and leader characteristics to their required, preferred and actual behaviours and how it affects performance and satisfaction.
Expain Chelladuria’s multidimensional model of leadership.
Situational, member and leader characteristics are when something happens and then required and actual behaviours relate to the leaders characteristics; whereas, preferred behaviour relates to the members characteristics. Then depending on what behaviour the leader follows after a situation can affect performance or satisfaction.
Apply an example of Chelladuria’s multidimensional model of leadership when someone swears.
Someone swearing would be a member characteristic and the individual will most likely have the preferred behaviour to get away with it. it is then down to the leader characteristics to determine whether the actual behaviour they follow is the required behaviour or the preferred behaviour. If the leader’s actual behaviour was the required behaviour of telling the person to stop then performance may increase but personal satisfaction may decrease. However, if the leader’s actual behaviour follows the preferred behaviour of letting the person off, performance may decrease whereas, personal satisfaction may increase.
