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Leadership: Leadership Flashcards

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Leadership styles affect an employees

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  • Ability to make decisions that affect their work.
  • Sense of responsibility to the organization or team.
  • The standards they seek to meet or exceed.
  • Belief that they will be rewarded for their work.
  • An understood mission and shared values.
  • A feeling of commitment to a shared goal.
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What is the most effective approach to leadership?

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  • There is no single effective approach
  • Different approaches may be more or less effective in achieving results under certain conditions or environments
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Six approaches to leadership

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  1. Coercive
  2. Authoritative
  3. Affiliative
  4. Democratic
  5. Pacesetting
  6. Coaching
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Coercive leadership approach

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The leader puts a vision or solution on the team and demands that the team follow this directive.

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Coercive leadership approach is effective when

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During crises when immediate and clear action is required

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Coercive leadership approach is ineffective when

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  • When there is not a crisis
  • It can damage employees’ sense of ownership in their work and motivation.
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Authoritative leadership approach

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The leader proposes a bold vision or solution and invites the team to join this challenge.

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Authoritative leadership approach is effective when

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  • There is no clear path forward
  • Proposal is compelling and captures the team’s imagination
  • Team members have a clear goal and understand their role in the effort and are encouraged to contribute their own ideas and take risks
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Authoritative leadership approach is ineffective when

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The leader lacks real expertise.

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Affiliative leadership approach

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  • Leader creates strong relationships with and inside the team, encouraging feedback.
  • The team members are motivated by loyalty.
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Affiliative leadership approach is effective when

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  • Effective at all times but especially when a leader has inherited a dysfunctional and dispirited team that needs to be transformed.
  • Leader has strong relationship-building and management skills
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Affiliative leadership approach is ineffective when

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  • When used alone
  • Ex: opportunities to correct or improve performance may not be taken because the affiliative leader fears damaging a relationship.
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Democratic leadership approach

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Leader invites followers to collaborate and commits to acting by consensus.

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Democratic leadership approach is efficient when

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  • The leader does not have a clear vision or anticipates strong resistance to a change.
  • Leaders must have strong communication skills.
  • Team members must be competent
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Democratic leadership approach is inefficient when

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Time is short, since building consensus takes time and multiple meetings.

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Pacesetting leadership approach

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The leader sets a model for high performance standards and challenges followers to meet these expectations.

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Pacesetting leadership approach is effective when

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Teams are composed of highly competent and internally motivated employees.

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Pacesetting leadership approach is ineffective when

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  • Expectations and the pace of work become excessive and employees become tired and discouraged.
  • Leader is too focused on the task and does not give enough time to activities that motivate team members (ex: feedback, relationship building, rewards)
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Coaching leadership approach

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  • The leader focuses on developing team members’ skills
  • Believe that success comes from aligning the organization’s goals with employees’ personal and professional goals.
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Coaching is effective when

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  • Leaders are highly skilled in strategic management, communication, and motivation
  • Leader can manage their time to include coaching as a primary activity.
  • Team members must also be receptive to coaching.
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Coaching is ineffective when

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Employees resist changing their performance.

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Universal Characteristics That Detract from Leadership

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  • Asocial (doesn’t value relationships)
  • Poor at communicating (both sending and receiving messages)
  • Noncooperative
  • Irritable
  • Egocentric
  • Ruthless
  • Dictatorial
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Effective HR leaders:

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  • Develop and coach others.
  • Build positive relationships.
  • Model their values and fulfill their promises and commitments.
  • Have functional expertise.
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Ineffective HR leaders:

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  • Focus internally rather than externally
    • Fail to look past HR to the organization’s internal and external stakeholders.
  • Lack strategic perspective, focusing on short-term objectives and daily tasks.
  • Do not anticipate or react well to change.
  • Resist “stretch” goals and act as a drag on the organization’s attempts to innovate.
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Leadership theories

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  • Default styles leaders will have
  • Unlike approaches, these typically do not change
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Leadership theory types

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  • Trait theory
  • Behavioral theories
  • Situational theories
  • Emergent theory
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Trait Theory of leadership

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  • Leaders have certain innate characteristics that followers do not possess and probably cannot acquire
  • Equates these characteristics and leadership but without evidence.
  • May discourage leader development by implying that the ability to lead cannot be acquired with study and practice.
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Trait theory types of characteristics

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  • Physical characteristics (ex: strength, stamina)
  • Personal traits (decisiveness, integrity)
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Trait theory is also known as

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Great man theory

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Behavioral Theories of leadership

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Leaders influence group members through certain behaviors.

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Behavioral Theories Include

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Blake-Mouton Theory

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Blake-Mouton Theory

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  • Leadership involves managing:
    1. Tasks
      • Work that needs to get done to attain goals
    2. Employees
      • Relationships based on social and emotional needs
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Five types of managers considered a leader under Blake-Mouton Theory

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  1. Country club
  2. Impoverished
  3. Authoritarian
  4. Middle-of-the-road
  5. Team leader
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Country club managers

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  • Low task, high relationship
  • Creates a secure atmosphere
  • Trusts individuals to accomplish goals
  • Avoids punitive actions to not jeopardize relationships
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Impoverished managers

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  • Low task, low relationship
  • Uses a “delegate-and-disappear” management style.
  • They detach themselves, often creating power struggles.
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Authoritarian managers

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  • High task, low relationship
  • Expect people to do what they are told without question and tend not to foster collaboration.
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Middle-of-the-road managers

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  • Midpoint on both task and relationship
  • Get the work done but are not considered leaders.
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Team leaders

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  • High task, high relationship
  • Lead by positive example
  • Foster a team environment
  • Encourage individual and team development.
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Situational Theories of leadership

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  • Believes that leaders can flex their behaviors to meet the needs of unique situations
  • Use both task or directive behaviors and relationships or supportive behaviors with employees
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Situational Theories of leadership includes

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  • Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership
  • Fiedler’s Contingency Theory
  • Path-Goal Theory
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Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership

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  • Leaders adapt their behaviors to meet the evolving needs of team members.
  • Behaviors involve tasks and relationships.
  • As team members grow in skill and experience, leaders supply the appropriate behavior
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In Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership

As team members grow in skill and experiences, leaders supply the appropriate behavior

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  1. Telling
  2. Selling
  3. Participating
  4. Delegating
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When is telling used in Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership

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Used when the employee is not yet motivated or competent

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When is selling used in Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership

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When increasingly competent employee still needs focus and motivation (“why are we doing this”)

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When is participating used in Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership

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When competent workers can be included in problem solving and coached on higher skills.

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When is delegating used in Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership

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When very competent team members can benefit from greater levels of autonomy and self-direction.

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Fiedler’s Contingency Theory

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Leaders change the situation to make it more “favorable,” more likely to produce good outcomes.

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Fiedler’s Contingency Theory “Situation favorableness” occurs when

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  • Leader-member relationships are strong.
  • Task structure and requirements are clear.
  • The leader can exert the necessary power to reach the group’s goal.
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Fiedler’s Contingency Theory unfavoriable situations can be changed to improve group (and leader) effectiveness by

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  • Improving relations between the leader and the team
  • Changing aspects of the task
    • Ex: more resources or breaking down project
  • Increasing or decreasing the leader’s exercise of power
    • Ex: increase team involvement and ownership of ideas
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Path-Goal Theory

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  • Focuses on the leader’s role in coaching and developing followers’ competencies.
  • Leader performs the behavior needed to help employees stay on track toward their goals.
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Path-Goal Theory employee need types

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  • Directive
  • Supportive
  • Achievement
  • Participative
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Directive role need under Path-Goal Theory

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Help the employee understand the task and its goal.

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Supportive role need under Path-Goal Theory

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Try to fulfill employee’s relationship needs.

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Achievement role need under Path-Goal Theory

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Motivate by setting challenging goals.

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Participative role need under Path-Goal Theory

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Provide more control over work and leverage group expertise through participative decision making.

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Emergent Theory

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Leaders are not appointed but emerge from the group, which chooses the leader based on interactions.

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