leadership

Question 1

leadership

Answer 1

• A leader is someone who influences you towards achieving your goals.
• Leader plays a role in maintaining effort and motivation by inspiring the team and setting targets

Question 2

two types of leader

Answer 2

• prescribed
• emergent

Question 3

perscribed leader

Answer 3

• Prescribed - Someone who has influences in helping others to achieve their goal
• Often appointed from outside the group or from higher authority
• Beneficial - a group may need new ideas or learn from new methods

Question 4

emergent leader

Answer 4

• Emergent - Appointed from within the group

Question 5

leadership qaulities

Answer 5

• Charisma - a presence/demeanour that makes others listen.
• Communication - Must be able to do this effectively
• Interpersonal skills - Be able to interact with others
• Empathy - Be able to listen to others and take into account their opinion
• Experience - Should have a wealth of knowledge in their sport
• Inspirational - encourage others to keep trying.
• Confidence - A confident leader can spread confidence amongst the team
• Organisational skills - be able to plan, prepare and think ahead.

Question 6

leadership styles - lewin

Answer 6

• autocrantic (do as i say)
• democratic
• laissez faire

Question 7

autocratic

Answer 7

• Leader makes all decisions and dictates instructions to the group.
• Very task oriented - concerned with results and reaching targets
• Could be used when a coach wants a team to play in a certain way. Players must follow the play to help them win.
• The coach must stay with the group throughout the work as the group can switch off if the coach isn’t present

Question 8

democratic

Answer 8

• Decisions are made by group consultation.
• The coach would adopt a more sympathetic approach to leadership
• Example - a coach may listen to senior players when forming a plan for the next game
• May adopt a more person-orientated style (concerned with interpersonal relationships).
• In this style, the group usually continues to work when the coach is not present.

Question 9

laissez faire

Answer 9

• The leader does very little and leaves the group to it.
• A manager may address a group and outline what he/she expects. They would then leave the group and expect the senior players to ensure the targets were met
• The danger is however that less motivated players would stop working if they were left alone.

Question 10

Interactive Approach

Answer 10

Leaders must try to balance the requirements of the situation, the needs of the group and their own characteristics to try and choose the most effective leadership style.

Question 11

Fiedler’s Contingency Model of Leadership - favourable situation

Answer 11

• Fiedler took into account one factor that influences leadership – the situation.
• Suggested that an autocratic or task originated style is best used in two opposite situations
• When everything is good (most favourable situation)
• When everything is bad (least favourable situation)
• When a situation is on middle ground, a person orientated style is best used.

Question 12

how favourable the situation is

Answer 12

• How favourable the situation is, good or bad, depends on the:
• Task
• Leader to group relationship
• Leaders position of authority

Question 13

most favourable situation

Answer 13

• The leader has respect
• There is good support within the group
• Th group has high ability
• High levels of motivation
• The task is clear to the team
• There is harmony between leader and group

Question 14

least favourable situation

Answer 14

• May be hostility between the group members
• Little respect for the leader
• The group has low ability
• Groups members do not support each other
• Motivation is low
• Taks is weak or unclear

Question 15

moderatly favourable

Answer 15

• There is a need or preference for consultation within the group.
• Motivation is moderate
• There is limited support
• The group has reasonable ability

Question 16

which goes with which

Answer 16

• Favourable & non favourable - autocratic
• In the middle - democratic

Question 17

Chelladurai’s Multi-Dimensional Model of Leadership

Answer 17

• He suggests that the leader must use an interactive approach to balance aspects of the situation, the leader and the group.
• The more the leader actually used a style that matched the requirements of the situation , and needs of the group, the more satisfaction would be gained

Question 18

the situation may affect leadership style

Chelladurai’s Multi-Dimensional Model of Leadership

Answer 18

• Type of task being performed (individual or team).
• A difficult/complex task may require more time to offer an explanation.
• Situation could be affected by the amount of time available
• Size of the group (large group , more authoritative)
  Is the situation dangerous (more autocratic).

Question 19

the features of the group may change the leadership style

Chelladurai’s Multi-Dimensional Model of Leadership

Answer 19

• Women may prefer the use of empathy and more consolation.
• Men may prefer a more authoritarian style
• A more experienced group may wish to take control over what they are practicing.
• Beginners may need to be specifically told what to do
• An older group may wish to have discussion over what they want to achieve
• A younger group may prefer to be told what to do.

Question 20

leader must asses the group

Chelladurai’s Multi-Dimensional Model of Leadership

Answer 20

• A leader must assess how to behave with a group.
• Required behaviour - What the situation demands (assessment of the situation to choose the appropriate style)
• Actual behaviour - The leadership style the leader has chosen
• Preferred behaviour - What the group wants