Leadership and Administration Flashcards
Value of influencing people in morally desirable ways
Leadership
Moral-values in their full complexity are discussed and affirmed
Moral Responsibility
Employees are allowed, invited and encouraged to participate in the organization beyond their assigned duties
Mutual Trust
Used in the military and in sports
Captains
Emphasize the leader as a benevolent nurturer of employees
Shepard
Formal chain of command acknowledges the tasks and duties of key players
Formal Hierarchies
Machine, Organism, Brain and Culture
4 Main Models
Organizations that have bureaucratic structures with numerous layers of highly specialized staff, each with clear demarcations in authority
Machine Model
Stress participative decision making, a reduced hierarchy, and psychological incentives largely achieved through family groups
Organism Model
Blend elements from the machine and organism model
Brain Model
Based largely on the concepts that each organization is like a separate culture with its own set of beliefs and values
Culture Model
External attempts to shape or prescribe of the individuals in the organization
External Controls
Internalized values of employees that guide an individual
Internal Controls
Organization has an advisory board made up of elected employee representatives
Constitutional Bureaucracy
Encompasses the politics of the organization and access to key decision makers
Informal Hierarchies