Leadership Flashcards
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Leadership importance:
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- Successful teams have strong influential leader
- Leader clear in interactive games
- less in co-active sports
- Associated with behavioral processes
2
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Leadership roles:
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- Ensure player satisfaction
- Steering team towards common goal
- Higher level, higher demand or expectancy of captain
3
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Characteristics of effective leader:
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- Communication
- High motivation
- Decision making
- empathetic
- experienced/ skill level
- Enthusiastic
- Ambitious
- Charismatic
4
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What is an emergent leader?
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- A leader that has emerged from the team within a group. Players choice
- May be subjective based on pre set opinions
5
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What is a Prescribed leader?
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- 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
6
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Two types of leader:
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- Autocratic
- Democratic
7
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Autocratic leader:
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- Makes all decisions
- motivated to complete task quickly/ effectively
- Keeps authority
- Focused on performance and goals
8
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What is and autocratic leader suited to?
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- Hostile/ difficult groups
- Short term tasks
- Cognitive stage performers
- Outdoor or dangerous tasks
9
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Democratic leader:
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- Shares decisions
- Shares responsibility
- Developing relationships
- Giving authority improves group effort
10
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What is a democratic leader suited to?
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- Advanced performers
- Social group or friendly matches
- Co-active sports where personal happiness key
11
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Laissez faire suited to?
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- Elite performers
- Trustworthy groups
- Assessing members
- Encourages creativity
12
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Democratic vs Autocratic graph
y= Group performance effectiveness
x= Favourability low -> high
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Autocratic- U quadratic
Democratic- N quadratic
13
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What is a highly favourable situation?
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- Leader’s position strong
- Simple task, clear structure
- Warm group/leader relations
14
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What is a highly unfavourable situation?
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- Leader’s position weak
- Task complex, vague structure
- Hostile group
15
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Theory: Trait theory
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- 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
