Leadership Flashcards
What is leadership?
an individual influences group members in a way that inspires them to achieve some group goal that he or she has identified as important.
What did Mann (1959) find about personality traits and leadership?
Weak correlations so personality cannot predict leadership ability. Best correlation was with intelligence
What are the types of leadership used in Lippitt and White’s 1943 study?
Autocratic, democratic, Laissez-faire
What is autocratic leadership?
Self-orientated, gave orders, aloof, hierarchical
What is democratic leadership?
Group focused, discussed plans, members involved, behaved as ordinary club member
What is laissez-faire leadership?
More concerned about having a good time than the task at hand
What are the two-types of leader-group relations distinguished by Bass (1985, 1990)?
Transformational and transactional
What is transformational leadership?
Leader provides vision or inspiration
What is transactional leadership?
Leader becomes involved when problems arise
Which leadership (transformational or transactional) is more effective?
Transformational leadership believed to be more effective because they inspire followers to go extra mile
What is Fiedler’s 1965 contingency theory?
Effectiveness of task-oriented versus socio-emotional leaders is contingent on their match with the situation.
Who produced the preferred co-worker scale?
Fiedler
How many traits were shared between managers and men compared to managers and women? (Stein, 1973, 1975)
60 for men. 8 for women.
Who said stereotypes are not only descriptive but also prescriptive?
Hellman, 2001
Role Congruity theory suggests these stereotypes can produce what two negative outcomes? (Early and Karau, 2002)
- less favourable evaluation of the potential for women to take on leadership roles compared to men
- less favourable evaluations of the actual behaviour of female leaders.
