Leadership Flashcards
Was ist Leadership?
- Can occur in formal leadership positions or informally
- Motivates others to contribute to goals
- Rooted in social context
- Dynamic, not static
- Occurs between interaction partners
Nenn die Levels of conceptualization for leadership theories
Levels of conceptualization for leadership theories
Beschreib das Organizational Level
- How top executives influence lower-level members
- How leaders influence organizational culture
Levels of conceptualization for leadership theories
Beschreib das Group Level
- How leadership is shared in the team/group
- How leaders trigger or inhibit specific member behaviors during team interactions
Levels of conceptualization for leadership theories
Beschreib das dyad level
- How a supervisor facilitates the work of a subordinate
- How leaders and followers influence each other
Levels of conceptualization for leadership theories
Beschreib das intra-individual level
- How leader traits and values influence leader behavior
- How leaders make decisions
Beschrieb trait theories of leadership
- Effective leaders possess certain individual
characteristics
Gib ein Beispiel für eine trait theory of leadership
Great man theory: “Great leaders are born, not made”
Was sind behavioral theories of leadership?
- Studies that focused on the behaviors common to effective leaders
Was wurde bei der Ohio State Studies (1940) getan und was kam dabei heraus?
Documentation of leader behaviors
Wie hat Yukl (2012) das Modell der Ohio Studies erweitert?
leadership behaviors should be differentiated into
- task-
- relations-, and
- change-oriented behavior as well as
- external activities.
Was sind contingency theories of leadership?
- No one leadership style (no “one size fits all”-approach)
- Effectiveness of leadership depends upon the situation/context
- Focus on the interaction of characteristics of both the leader and the situation
Nenn die vier in der Vorlesung vorgestellten Theorien und Modelle zu contingency theories of leadership
- Fiedler’s contingency model
- Path-goal theory
- The decision-making model
- Leader-member exchange (LMX)
Was ist Fiedler’s contingency model of leadership?
The model states that there is no one best style of leadership. Instead, a leader’s effectiveness is based on the situation. This is the result of two factors – “leadership style” and “situational favorableness”
With reegards to Fiedler’s contingency model of leadership, what are the three contingencies or situational characteristics determine leadership effectiveness?
- leader-member relations
- task structure
- leader’s position
Depending on the combination in which the three contingencies manifest in a situation, the leader should either be task- or relations-oriented in order to lead effectively.
Was sagt die path-goal theory?
Leader’s job is to clarify followers’ path to their desired goals
Was ist das decision-making model?
Matches characteristics of the situation with leader decision-
making strategies and prescribes appriopriate leader behavior depending on the
specific situation.
Nach dem decision-making model, welchen Strategien können Leader nachgehen?
- acting alone
- consulting with others
- group consensus
Beschreib Autocratic (A1)
The leader makes the decision by himself using existing
information without any communication with the team.
Beschreib Autocratic (A2)
The leader consults with team members to get information, but make the decision by himself or herself without informing the group.