Leadership Flashcards
What is Leadership?
influencing people to achieve common goals
What are Kouzes & Posners four traits of effective leaders? How were they gathered?
Common traits across cultures, ethniticites, age and education
- Honesty - truthful, ethical
- Forward looking - sense of direction
- Inspiring - enthusiastic, energetic
- Competent - relevent experience
What did Kouzes and Posner conclude about leadership
Credibility = combination of honesty, forward looking, inspiring and competent.
What tasks did gardner believe differentiated leadership from management?
- Envisioning goals
- Affirming values
- Motivating
- Managing
- Achieving workable unity
- Explaining
- Serving as a symbol
- Representing group
- Renewing
What were Grossman & Valiga’s elements of leadership?
- Vision
- Communication skills
- Change (knowing when needed)
- Stewardship (serving others)
- Developing and renewing followers
What is emotional IQ?
Ability to manage selfs and relationships effectively
What are the 4 fundamental parts of EI?
- Self awareness (knowing self)
- Self management (honesty, initiative)
- Social awareness (empathy, politics)
- SOcial skills ( communication, conflict management, teamwork)
What are Sullivan and deckeres 4 styles of leadership?
- Autocratic
- Democratic
- Laissez-fairre
- Bureaucratic
What is the autocratic leadership style?
Followers are motivated by external sources such as power, and authority. Leader makes all the decisions. Can use coercion or and punishment
What is the democratic leadership styles ?
Followers want to be active participants in decisions. Majority rules style, work together towards achievement.
What is the Laissez-faire leadership style -
Followers motivated by internal drives. Leader provides little or no direction. Abdicates responsibilities
What is the bureacratic style leadership?
Followers are motivated by external forces. Leader makes decisions based off of policies and rules to direct work
Why does Goleman have a different perspective on leadership styles?
Believes that organization structures are complex. NOt all leadership styles are appropriate all the time. Many may need to be
What are Goleman’s 6 styles of leadership?
- Coercive
- Authoritative
- Affiliative
- Democratic
- Pace setting
- Coaching
How does Goleman differentiate between co-ercive and authoritative styles of leadership
Coercive - demands immediate compliance. Limits flexibility where authoritative gives people a general vision but lets the people choose how they’ll get there
What is the affiliative style? When is it approptiate?
Creates emotional bonds and harmony. Good for team building. Focus on praise can lead to poor performance
What is the pace-setting leadership styple? When is it appropriate?
Expects excellence and self direction. Can make employees feel overwhelmed from leader’s example
What is the coaching leadership style?
Helps develop others for future. Focuses on personal development. Works when employees are aware of weaknesses and want to improve
Why are nurses often uncomfortable with power?
Not been socialized to use or have power
Thought of as “womans work”
Traditionally less education than other health care fields
What are Sullivan & Deckers 7 types of power?
- Legitimate (position
- Reward - (carrot)
- Punishment - (stick)
- Expert - (unique skills, knowledge & competence)
- Referent - (admiration & respect from others)
- Information
- Connection
How can nurses improve their power on the ward?
Appropriate use of appearance, language and behaviour
ie. introducing self as nurse
professional, efficient report
dressing professionally
What are the rules for using power?
- Use the least amount of power necessary to be effective
- Use power appropriate to the situation
- Learn when not to use pwoer
- Focus on the problem, not the pesron
- Make polite requests, not arrogant demands
- Coercion is a last resort
- Keep informed to retain credibility
- You may owe a favor afterwards
What should you do if you experience bullying/ abuse of power?
- document the behaviour and confront the individiual
- report behaviour to other’s superior
What are power plays?
attempts to destroy another’s power/ undermining someone to enhance one’s own power
What are politics?
the art of influencing the allocation of scare resources - money, time, personel and materials