Leadership and decision making small

Question 1

leadership

Answer 1

getting group members to achieve the group’s goal

Question 2

3 different leaderships

Answer 2

Autocratic: giving orders to followers
Democratic: based on advise ans reaching agreement
Laissez-faire: desinterest in followers

Question 3

2 leadership roles

Answer 3

Task specialist: task-oriented

Socioemotional specialist: relationship-oriented, high on consideration (Rücksicht)

Question 4

normative decision theory

Answer 4

focuses on effectivness of differnet leaderstyles in group decision making context

Question 5

path-goal theory

Answer 5

focusing on how structuring ans concideration behaviours motivate followers

Question 6

Transactional leadership

Answer 6

• focus on rescourses between leader and followers
• leader transact with followers to get things done
• followers reward leaders for archiving group goals by allowing them to be innovative

Question 7

Transformational leadership

Answer 7

• charisma!!
• inspire followers to adopt a vision that involves more than individual self-interest

=> faciliated by charisma, concideration (Rücksicht) and inspiring followers

Question 8

Good Leader

Answer 8

• leaders who have task-relevant characteristics and a high status in society have a greater influence in followers
• leadership is a identity process
• prototypical leader are more effective than less prototypical leader

Question 9

Groupthink

Answer 9

wish to reach consistent agreement overrides the motivation to adopt procedures for rational decision making

Question 10

decision making:

Group polarisation

Answer 10

making decision that are more extreme

Question 11

persuasive arguments theory

Answer 11

people in group become more extreme in their opinions

Question 12

Group polarisation is a regular phenomen because of?

Answer 12

Social Identity theory

Self-categorisation theory