Leadership Flashcards
Leadership importance:
- Successful teams have strong influential leader
- Leader clear in interactive games
- less in co-active sports
- Associated with behavioral processes
Leadership roles:
- Ensure player satisfaction
- Steering team towards common goal
- Higher level, higher demand or expectancy of captain
Characteristics of effective leader:
- Communication
- High motivation
- Decision making
- empathetic
- experienced/ skill level
- Enthusiastic
- Ambitious
- Charismatic
What is an emergent leader?
- A leader that has emerged from the team within a group. Players choice
- May be subjective based on pre set opinions
What is a Prescribed leader?
- A leader that is imposed upon the group
- Objective with a fresh outlook
- Carry more authority
- May not suit the style or ethos of the team
Two types of leader:
- Autocratic
- Democratic
Autocratic leader:
- Makes all decisions
- motivated to complete task quickly/ effectively
- Keeps authority
- Focused on performance and goals
What is and autocratic leader suited to?
- Hostile/ difficult groups
- Short term tasks
- Cognitive stage performers
- Outdoor or dangerous tasks
Democratic leader:
- Shares decisions
- Shares responsibility
- Developing relationships
- Giving authority improves group effort
What is a democratic leader suited to?
- Advanced performers
- Social group or friendly matches
- Co-active sports where personal happiness key
Laissez faire suited to?
- Elite performers
- Trustworthy groups
- Assessing members
- Encourages creativity
Democratic vs Autocratic graph
y= Group performance effectiveness
x= Favourability low -> high
Autocratic- U quadratic
Democratic- N quadratic
What is a highly favourable situation?
- Leader’s position strong
- Simple task, clear structure
- Warm group/leader relations
What is a highly unfavourable situation?
- Leader’s position weak
- Task complex, vague structure
- Hostile group
Theory: Trait theory
- Born and effective leader
- Has stable traits, intelligence, assertiveness …
- ‘great man theory’
- The sons of great men will become great men, inherited
- Certain traits may not make an effective leader
Theory: Social learning theory
- Significant others
- Learn to lead through observations
- Skills acquired through imitation
Theory: Interactionalist theory
Combines SLT and Trait
Theory: Multi dimensional model
Situational characteristics -> required behavior
Leader characteristics -> Actual behavior
Member characteristics ->Preferred behavior
All lead to group performance/ satisfaction
MDM -Antecedents
situational- interactive/co-active, environment, opposition
Leader- Personality/experience, leader’s inclination
Group/member- Group age/gender/motivation
MDM -Leader
Required- what is needed of leader
Actual- How leader actually acts
Preferred- Style preferred by group
