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Leadership (kill me) Flashcards

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What is organizational behavior?

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  • A field of research; that examines the impact that individuals, groups, and structures have on behavior within organizations, intending to apply such knowledge to improve human and organizational behavior
  • The study of both personal and social psychology (cognition, emotion, and behavior) in organizations
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Why should we care about psychology and OB?

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  • Develop yourself and improve your own people skills.
  • Anticipate the “unseen” reality.
  • Develop people around you and improve the performance of individuals and groups.
  • Improve work quality and the quality of life in projects.
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What are some important challenges in project management?

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  • Identify a good fit between personality and job requirements in a particular project.
  • Identify an optimal level of stress and read early signs of
    exhaustion and burnout and put supports in place to support
  • Identify and leverage optimal levels of productivity and learning
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What is leadership?

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Leadership is the process of influencing others.

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What factors make leadership initiatives effective?

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  • Targeting effectiveness
  • Targeting efficiency
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What is effectiveness?

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  • Decision-making combined with project management skills
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What is efficiency?

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  • Targeting engagement and inhibition by managing the personal and social dynamics of others
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What is direction?

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Determined by group members’ collective project management skills in
combination with their collective leadership skills.
(is the group ’moving’ in the right direction?)

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What is drive?

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Determined by personal dynamics (e.g., personality, psychological resources)
and social dynamics (e.g., team climate)
(How fast is the group ’moving’ ?)

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Why do we need both drive and direction?

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  • Direction without Drive means looking in the right direction without moving closer.
  • Drive without direction means moving fast in the wrong direction.
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What are some factors driving leadership initiative?

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Personal dynamics
* Competence
* Motivation
* Confidence

Social dynamics
* Explicit roles and responsibilities
* Norms
* Psychological safety
* Support and respect

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What is the difference between a manager and leadership?

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▪ Manager is an organizational function: You can be a manager regardless of
how you act or behave!
▪ Leadership is an activity! You can enact leadership regardless of whether you
are in a managerial/leadership position or not.

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What are some tactics to increase efficiency?

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  • Increase engagement and decrease inhibition.
  • Focus on personality dynamics.
  • Focus on social dynamics.
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Why is leadership needed?

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Because people are misdirected or inefficient.

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Where is leadership needed?

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Anywhere people work.

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What is personality psychology?

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Who you are determines how you feel, think, and behave.

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What is social psychology?

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Who you are with determines how you feel, think, and behave.

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What is well-being?

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  • a state of happiness and contentment, with low levels of anxiety, generally good physical and mental health and vision, or good quality of life.
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What is job satisfaction?

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  • A worker’s attitude toward his job, is often expressed as a hedonic response of liking or disliking the work itself, the rewards (salary, promotion, recognition), or the context (working conditions, colleagues). See also job involvement.
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What is burnout?

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Physical, emotional, or mental exhaustion is accompanied by reduced motivation, reduced performance, and negative attitudes towards self and others.

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What causes burnout?

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Performing at a high level until stress and tension, especially from extreme and prolonged physical or mental exertion or an overloaded workload, take their toll.

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What are the 5 generic personality traits?

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  • Extroversion
  • Agreeableness
  • Conscientiousness
  • Emotional Stability (Neuroticism)
  • Openness
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How does the Big 5 describe extroversion?

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Sociable and confident

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How does the Big 5 describe agreeableness?

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Good-natured, cooperative, and trusting

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How does the Big 5 describe conscientiousness?

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Responsible, reliable, persistent, and organized

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How does the Big 5 describe emotional stability (neuroticism)?

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  • Calm, confident, secure under stress (positive)
  • Nervous, depressed, and insecure under stress (negative)
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How does the Big 5 describe openness?

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Curious, imaginative, artistic, and sensitive

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What is emotional intelligence?

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The ability to process emotional information and use it in reasoning and other cognitive activities.

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What are the abilities included in emotional intelligence?

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  • Self-awareness and self-understanding
  • Self-regulation
  • Social skills
  • Empathy
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What is self-awareness and self-understanding?

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Being able to perceive, assess, and understand one’s feelings.

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What is self-regulation?

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Regulating and managing in ways that favor one’s thinking, motivation, decision-making, and behavior.

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What are social skills?

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Understanding and being able to express oneself in emotional language and use emotional information; to regulate one’s own and other’s emotions to
promote growth and well-being.

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What is empathy?

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Understanding others and being able to feel others’ situations and being able to see the world from a different perspective.

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How does emotional intelligence increase performance?

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  • Negotiation
  • Colleague and customer service
  • Decision-making
  • Motivation
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What are the three basic psychological needs?

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  • Need for relatedness
  • Need for competence
  • Need for autonomy
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What are the two different types of motivation?

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  • Intrinsic motivation
  • Extrinsic motivation
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What is intrinsic motivation?

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The incentive we feel to complete a task simply because we find it interesting or enjoyable.

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What is extrinsic motivation?

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When you get rewarded for your work (eg, rewards).

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What are some important implications for work rewards?

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  • Internal and external driving forces are not independent
  • Extrinsic motivators (eg, rewards) reduce (mostly) intrinsic motivators
  • For most jobs, pay should not be dependent on performance
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What does affect our well-being?

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  • Need for acceptance: The need for positive social engagement
  • Need for optimal predictability: The desire to know the connections of things around us
  • Need for skills: The skills that serve us well in the world
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What are the three psychological resources?

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  • Motivation
  • Emotions
  • Attention
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What can build or deplete our psychological resources?

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  • Acceptance
  • Competence
  • Optimal predictability

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