Leadership Approaches Flashcards
What is Coercive Leadership and when is it suitable?
Leader imposes a vision or solution on the team and demands that team follow.
Suitable: during crisis when immediate and clear action is required
Ineffective at other times when it can damage employee sense of ownership in work/motivation
What is Authoritative Leadership and when is it suitable?
Leader proposes a bold vision or solution and invites team to join in challenge.
Effective at times when there no clear path forward and when the proposal is compelling and captures the teams imagination. Team members have a clear goal and understand their roles in the effort. encouraged to contribute ideas and take risk
ineffective: leader lacks real experience.
what are 6 approaches to leadership
Coercive, Authoritative, Affiliative, Democratic Leadership, Pacesetting, Coaching
What is Affiliative leadership and when is it suitable?
The leader creates strong relationships with and inside the team, encouraging feedback. The team members are motivated by loyalty.
Effective at all times but especially when a leader has inherited a dysfunctional and dispirited team that needs to be transformed. Leader must have strong relationship-building and management skills.
Ineffective when used alone. For example, opportunities to correct or improve performance may not be taken because the affiliative leader fears damaging a relationship.
What is Democratic leadership and when is it suitable
The leader invites followers to collaborate and commits to acting by consensus.
Effective when the leader does not have a clear vision or anticipates strong resistance to a change. Team members must be competent; leaders must have strong communication skills.
Ineffective when time is short, since building consensus takes time and multiple meetings.
what is pacesetting leadership and when is it suitable
The leader sets a model for high performance standards and challenges followers to meet these expectations.
Effective when teams are composed of highly competent and internally motivated employees
Ineffective when expectations and the pace of work become excessive and employees become tired and discouraged. In the leader’s attempt to set high goals, he or she may focus exclusively on the task and not give enough time to activities that motivate team members, such as feedback, relationship building, and rewards.
What is coaching Leadership and when is it suitable
The leader focuses on developing team members’ skills, believing that success comes from aligning the organization’s goals with employees’ personal and professional goals.
