Leadership All Flashcards
Define Leadership
The process of influencing others to understand and agree on what needs to be done
What are the 3 reasons to hit a ceiling in leadership behaviour ?
Loss of motivation
Lack of help from environment
Limited capacities(skills,knowledge)
Is leadership a trait or a behaviour ?
Both
Trait: qualities and characteristics
Behaviour: actions taken
Can leadership be learned ?
Yes, leadership is learned through the course of once life
What two leadership behaviour are there ?
Initiating structure
Initiating consideration
What is initiating structure ?
Achieving goals by setting clear goals, establishing roles and responsibilities
(Task oriented)
What is initiating consideration ?
Achieving goals by showing concern and support for well being of team members
(People orientation)
What is the difference between leadership and management?
Leadership is to direct
Management is to execute
What are the 2 key factors to leadership through social influencing ?
Agreement among team what needs to be done and how it can be done effectively
Facilitating individual and collective efforts (inspiring and motivating to take action)
What is the traditional view of management?
Western leadership values rationality higher than emotionality’
How are rational people viewed in the western view of management?
Intelligent, logical and in control
How are emotional people seen in the traditional western view ?
Less intelligent and illogical
What are emotions ?
Conscious bodily sensations reflecting personal significance of an event
What is the modern view of emotions ?
Seen as an facilitator
Increases personal bonds
Increase attention/ active memory
Aid in selecting
Improve cognitive performance and creativity
What is the mood congruence effect ?
The mood is effecting how information is retrieved during decision making
Bad mood=negative feelings
What is the mood congruence judgment effect
Decisions consistent with active state at time of judgement
On what does it depend wether emotions have negative or positive impacts ?
How we deal with them
What is disposition ?
Typical behaviour influencing a persons performance (optimism, extroversion)
How is disposition measured
Self report tests
What are problems with self report tests ?
Fakable, own perception, no right awnser
What are abilities ?
Specific skills influencing performance
How is ability measured
Measured by performance test
Why are performance tests better at predicting performance ?
Not fakable, one right awnser, maximum behaviour
What is emotional intelligence ?
Ability to monitor and control once own and other emotions
What are the 3 key components of emotional intelligence ?
Emotion recognition (identifying emotions)
Emotion understanding (causes and consequences)
Emotion management (manage and control emotions in a constructive way)
What is the G factor model
Theory of intelligence (intelligence can be broken down into key abilities)
What is EQ in the G factor model
EQ is a second stratum factor
One of several abilities contributing to overall intelligence
What is the Goleman model
The goleman model shows correlation between EI and task performance
What does the goleman model say about EI
EI is especially useful for people with low cognitive intelligence
How does EI impact financial decision making ?
Intense emotion can be regulated
Bias can be regulated
What are managerial implications in context of emotions ?
Encourage self awareness
Re-examine common beliefs
Increase degree of attending and differentiating affective states
6 steps to increase EI
Acknowledge emotions
Accept/appreciate emotions
Differentiate and analyse emotions
Reflect on emotions and origins
Manage emotions
Manage others emotions
What is the trait approach
There are traits related to leaders success
What is the great man theory
Leaders are born not made since great persons have similar characteristics
What is trait-situation interaction
Behaviour is not determined by personality but rather shaped by traits and situation they are in
What is the revival of personality traits ?
Traits are usuals stable but can be strengthened which leads to a revival of said trait
What is personality?
characteristics
Patterns of thought
Feelings
Behaviours
What are the 3 fundamental characteristics of personality
Consistency (shown in all aspects of life)
Stability( stable throughout lives)
Multiple expressions (may vary by situation)
What is the big five model ?
Framework for understanding and studying personality
What are the 5 main personality traits according to the big five model ?
Open to experience
Conscientiousness
Extra version
Neuroticism
Agreeableness
What does open to experience mean ?
Tendency to be curios, open minded, imaginative
What does conscientiousness mean ?
Tendency to be dependable, thorough and disciplined
What is extra version
Tendency to be outgoing, sociable and assertive
What is neuroticism ?
Tendency to experience negative emotions
What is agreeableness ?
Tendency to be cooperative, kind and compassionate
What are problems with self reports: response bias ?
Acquiescence(agreeing no matter what)
Tendency to use extrem ratings
Tendency to use medium ratings
Position effects (negative first)
Random response patterns
Guessing
What are problems with self reports: constants related ?
Social desirability (presenting oneself in favourable light)
Simulations (what believed to be right)
Aggravation (exaggeration oneself)
Dissimulation (provide fals awnsers to hide truth)
What are observer ratings ?
Observing personalities and behaviour
What are difficulties in observable ratings
Can only access observable behaviour
What is the implicit association test ?
Test designed to measure attitudes and biases hidden or unaware of
How can personality be assessed from digital traces
Many likes = openness
More = agreeableness
More =extra version
Five trait average
Less=conscientiousness
Low likes =neuroticism
What are trait approach pros
Intusitive approach
Clear set of effective traits
Can be applied at all levels of org.
What are trait approach cons ?
Small effect of traits
Lacking insights
What are the two fundamental leadership behaviours ?
People orientation
Task orientation
What is the social rule theory ?
Individuals behave in accordance with social expectations
What is the effect of the social rule theory ?
Gender differences in leadership styles
What are men and women considered to be under the social rule theory ?
Women are more considerate
Men are more task oriented
To what do cultural differences lead in context of leadership styles ?
Different styles
What are western nations leadership styles typically
Democratic
What are low economic nations leadership styles usually
Controlling
Do female and male leadership styles differ more than cultural differences ?
No cultural is more impactful
Women and men have similar styles
Has the percentage of women in leadership roles changed in comparison to women with university degrees ?
Not much
What is the double burden Syndrom ?
Women having to balance work and domestic activities (society)
What is the absence of role models ?
Few female role models
What are problems of female leadership
Double burden syndrome
Any time anywhere performance model
Lack of pro family policies
Absence of role models
Womens reluctance to promote each other
Womens tendency to network less
What is any time anywhere performance ?
Need to be anywhere at any time
What is the lack of pro family policies ?
Few support for mothers
Lack of public policies
What do average managers focus on ?
Traditional styles
What do successful managers focus on ?
Networking
What do effective leaders focus on ?
Mainly communication
How do women see themselves
Success due to external factors
Underestimate their ability
Don’t negotiate salary
How do men see themselves ?
Success due to them
Confident in ability
Negotiate salary
What is inter group relations theory?
In group out group bias
Bias toward people outside of group
What are the effects of appointing a minority ceo to white male managers ?
Lower organisation identification
Less help for colleagues