Leadership: Styles and Behaviors Flashcards
When the leader provides specific instructions and closely supervises performance.
Telling
A theory describing how leader-member relationships develop over time on a dyadic basis.
Leader-member exchange theory
The process of becoming a leader in the first place.
Leader emergence
A pattern of behavior where the leader creates job relationships characterized by mutual trust, respect for employee ideas, and consideration of employee feelings.
Consideration
A theory stating that the optimal combination of initiating structure and consideration depends on the readiness of the employees in the work unit.
Life cycle theory of leadership
When the leader waits around for mistakes and errors, then takes corrective action as necessary.
Passive management-by-exception
When the leader behaves in ways that challenge followers to be innovative and creative by questioning assumptions and reframing old situations in new ways.
Intellectual simulation
A pattern of behavior where the leader inspires followers to commit to a shared vision that provides meaning to their work while also serving as a role model who helps followers develop their own potential and view problems from new perspectives.
Transformational leadership
The phase in a leader-follower relationship when a follower voices his or her own expectations for the relationship, resulting in a free-flowing exchange of opportunities and resources for activities and effort.
Role making
When the leader turns responsibility for key behaviors over to employees.
Delegating
When the leader behaves in ways that earn the admiration, trust, and respect of the followers, causing followers to want to identify with and emulate the leader.
Idealized influence
The degree to which the leader’s actions result in the achievement of the unit’s goals, the continued commitment of the unity’s employees, and the development of mutual trust, respect, and obligation in leader-member dyads.
Leader effectiveness
A pattern of behavior where the leader rewards or disciplines the follower based on performance.
Transactional leadership
When the leader attains follower agreement on what needs to be done using rewards in exchange for adequate performance.
Contingent reward
A pattern of behavior where the leader defines and structures the roles of employees in pursuit of goal attainment.
Initiating structure