Leadership Flashcards
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*leadership styles
- Autocratic
- Transactional
- laissez-faire
- Democratic
- Transformational
Define management
the manipulation of people, the environment, money, time, and other resources to reach organizational goals.
*Define transactional leadership
Focuses on management tasks
- is a caretaker
- uses trade-offs to meet goals
- examines causes
- uses contingency reward
Characteristics of management
- -having a legitament source of power
- have an assigned position within the formal organization
-!-Emphasize control, decision making, decision analysis, and results-!-
- expected to carry out specific functions, duties and responsibilities
- direct subordinates
- Have a greater formal responsibility and accountability for rationality and control than leaders.
Which of the following should managers emphasize?
A.Decision making B.Analysis C.Results D.Control E.All of the above
All of the above
*Transformational leadership
- Identifies common values
- inspires others with vision
- has long-term vision
- looks at effects
- empowers others
Leaders vs. Mangers: position/power
Managers: assigned position. Power through delegated authority accompanying the position.
leader: often have power not through authority but other means
Leaders vs. Mangers: role
Manager- have expected functions to carry out
Leader: wider variety of roles.
Leaders vs. Mangers: focus
Manager: Emphasiz control, decision making, dicision analysis, results
Leader: Group process, information gathering, feedback, empowering others
Which of the following is a characteristic of a leader?
- Always assigned a position of authority
- Usually part of a formal organization
- Focus on group process, information gathering, and feedback
- Focus on decision making and results
Focus on group process, information gathering, and feedback.
Rationale: While managers are more often part of a formal organization and focus more on results-oriented tasks, leaders tend to focus more on things such as group process.
Good leaders
- envision the future
- communicate their visions
- motivate followers
- lead the way
- inspire coincidence
- take risks
- empower followers
- master change
Good managers
- coordinate resources
- optimize resource use
- meet organizational goals and objectives
- follows rules
- plan, organize, control. and direct
- use reward and punishment effectively to achieve goals
The management process
planning organizing staffing directing controlling
Leadership
the art of getting work done through others willingly
Types of social power
- Coercive
- Legitimate
- Referent
- Reward
- Expert
- Informational