Leadership Key Words

Question 1

Leadership

Answer 1

Getting group members to achieve the groups goals

Question 2

Great person theory

Answer 2

Perspective on leadership that attributes effective leadership to innate or acquired individual characteristics

Question 3

Big 5

Answer 3

The 5 major personality dimensions of:
- Extraversion
- Agreeableness
- Conscientiousness
- Emotional Stability
- Openness to experience

Question 4

Autocratic leaders

Answer 4

Leaders who use a style based on giving orders to followers

Question 5

Democratic leaders

Answer 5

Leaders who use a style based on consultation and obtaining agreement and consent from followers

Question 6

Laissez-faire leaders

Answer 6

Leaders who use a style based on disinterest in followers

Question 7

Leader behaviour description questionnaire

Answer 7

Scale devised by Ohio state leadership researchers to measure leadership behaviour and distinguish between initiating structure and consideration dimensions

Question 8

Contingency theories

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theories of leadership that consider the leadership effectiveness of particular behaviours and behavioural styles to the contingent on the nature of the leadership behaviour

Question 9

Least preferred co-worker scale

Answer 9

Fiedler’s scale for measuring leadership style in terms of favourability of attitude towards one’s least preferred co-worker

Question 10

Normative decision theory

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A contingency theory of leadership that focuses on the effectiveness of different leadership styles in group decision making contexts

Question 11

Path-goal theory

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A contingency theory of leadership that can also be classified as a transactional theory and focuses on how structuring and consideration behaviours motivate followers

Question 12

Transactional approach

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Approach to leadership that focuses on the transaction of resources between leaders and followers

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Leader-member exchange theory

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theory of leadership in which effective leadership rests on the ability of the leader to develop good quality personalised exchange relationships with individual members

Question 14

Vertical dyad linkage model

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An early form of the leader-member exchange theory in which a sharp distinction is drawn between dyadic leader-member relations.
The subordinate is treated as either an ingroup or outgroup member

Question 15

Transformational leadership

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Approach to leadership that focuses on the way that leaders transform group foals and actions mainly through the exercise of charisma

Question 16

Multifactor leadership questionnaire

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Most popular and widely used scale for measuring transactional and transformational leadership

Question 17

Leader categorisation theory

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We have a variety of schemas about how the different types of leaders behave in different leadership situations.
When a leader is categorised as a particular type of leader, the schema fills in the details about how that leader will behave

Question 18

Status characteristics theory

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theory of influence in groups that attributes greater influence to those who posses both task relevant characteristics and characteristics of a high status group in society

Question 19

Social identity theory of leadership

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Development of social identity theory to explain leadership as an identity process whereby in salient groups of prototypical leaders are more effective than less prototypical leaders

Question 20

Correspondence bias

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a general attribution bias in which people have an inflated tendency to see behaviour as reflecting stable underlying personality attributes

Question 21

Group value model

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View that procedural justice within groups makes members feel valued which leads to enhanced commitment to and identity with the group

Question 22

Relational model of authority in groups

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Tyler’s account of how effective authority in groups rests upon fairness and justice based relations between leader and followers

Question 23

Distributive justice

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The fairness of the outcome of a decision

Question 24

Procedural justice

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The fairness of the procedures used to make a decision

Question 25

Social dilemmas

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Situations in which short-term personal gain is at odds with the long-term goods of the group

Question 26

Glass ceiling

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An invisible barrier that prevents women, and minorities in general, from attaining top leadership goals

Question 27

Stereotype threat

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Feeling that we will be judged and treated in terms of negative stereotypes of our group and that we will inadvertently confirm these stereotypes through our behaviour