Leadership Questions

Question 1

5 Leadership Styles

Answer 1

• Coercive:

• “do what I say”, gives directions so things are done fast.
• reduces creativity

• Affiliative:

• flat hierarchies
• leader loses authority

• Democratic:

• leading through the participation of everyone
• endless discussions

• Pacesetting:

• gives freedom to decide own work time, good for highly skilled workers
• direction may get lost

• Coaching:
- developing people trough feedback

Question 2

6 Types of Leadership Powers

Answer 2

Personal power:
• Expert power: knowledge about specific topic
• Referent Power: benchmark on how employees like you

Position power:
• Coercive power: power to punish
• Rewarding power: power to reward 
• Legitimation power: your Status legitimates you as leader
• Information power: exclusive knowledge

Question 3

Difference between Leadership and Management

Answer 3

Leadership (long term):
• establishing direction
• aligning people
• motivation and inspiring

Management (short term):
• planning and budgeting
• organizing and staffing
• controlling and solving problems

Question 4

8 Responsibilities/Roles of a leader

Answer 4

• Coordinator
• Monitor
• Facilitator
• Mentor
• Innovator
• Broker
• Producer
• Director

Question 5

Trait Approach

Great Man Theory

Answer 5

5 Mayor Traits:

• intelligence
• self-confidence
• determination
• integrity
• sociability

Question 6

Trait Approach

McCrae & Costa

Answer 6

Big 5 Personality Factors:

• Neuroticism: try to make everything right because of fear of failure
• Extraversion: enjoys being social, tendency to have positive energy
• Openness: open-minded, tendency to be creative
• Agreeableness: tendency to accept and trust
• Conscientiousness: tendency to be organized

Question 7

Trait Approach

Strengths and Weaknesses

Answer 7

Strengths:
• intuitively appealing
• identifiable and clearly named traits
• lots of research to back this approach up

Weaknesses:
• limits the needed skills to some few, more are needed
• fails to take situation into
• just points out leaders role, followers also belong to leadership

Question 8

Skill-based Leadership model

Katz

Answer 8

Three-skill approach:

• Human/People skill(s)
• Technical skill
• Conceptual skills

–> hierarchy level graphic

Question 9

Skill-based Leadership model

Mumford, Zaccaro and Harding

Answer 9

Capability Model:

• Individuelle Attributes:

• cognitive capabilities
• ability to learn
• motivation
• personality

• Competencies:

• problem-solving skills
• social judgment skills
• know-how

–> Influenced by career experience

• Leadership Outcome:

• leadership performance measured by external factors
• effective problem solving

–> All are influenced by environmental influence

Question 10

Capability Model

Strengths and Weaknesses

Answer 10

Strengths:
• gives a structure of understanding effective leadership
• focus on skills and ability to develop them
• easy to learn
• shows a lot of abilities needed for effective leadership

Weaknesses:
• old fashioned view on leadership, followers not considered
• based on army data
• relation between some components and leadership are not given
• number of criteria makes model very general

Question 11

Skill-based Leadership model

Behavioral leadership approach

Answer 11

Task focused behavior vs. Relational behavior

Ohio State University (Stogdill):
• structure initiating
• consideration

Michigan State University:
• employee orientation
• production orientation
–> working against each other