Leadership Terms And Definitions Flashcards
Learning all leadership terms and their definitions.
A person’s perceived ration of inputs and outcomes, as compared to his/hers perception of another person’s ration of inputs and outcomes.
Comparison Ratio
Motivational theory which assumes that people value fair treatment when comparing themselves with others, and that the perception of inequity motivates people to take action.
Equity Theory
The organizational leader who directly supervises, manages, and leads the employees involved in a given situation of case study.
Focal Leader
Any individual who perceives equity or inequity by comparing himself/herself with others.
Focal Person
Exists when someone perceives that the ratio of his/her outcomes to inputs is not equal to the ratio of someone else’s outcomes to inputs.
Inequity
In the employee-employer exchange, this is what the focal person perceives are his contributions to the exchange, for which he expects a just return. Some examples include work effort, experience, education, training, and intelligence.
Inputs
Theory dealing with perceptions of fairness in organizations
Organizational Justice Theory
In the employee-employer exchange, this is what the employee perceives are the rewards he receives for his services. Examples include pay, benefits, praise, and promotion.
Outcomes
The study of human interaction, including the study of attraction, attitude formation, influence (of which leadership is a part), and group dynamics.
Social Psychology
The tendency to attribute one’s own successes to one’s abilities, and to blame failures on external factors beyond one’s control
Self Serving Bias
The tendency for a leader to punish a follower more severely if the follower’s behavior has negative consequences.
Negative Outcome Bias
The process of assigning blame or credit for a person’s behavior (including one’s own behavior) to that person’s abilities or lack of abilities.
Internal Attribution
The tendency to overvalue internal factors in explaining someone’s behavior, while undervaluing external factors
Fundamental Attribution Error
The process of assigning blame or credit for a person’s behavior (including one’s own behavior) to external factors beyond the person’s abilities or lack of abilities.
External Attribution
The process of making an attribution about a person based on how well (or poorly) he/she does on a variety of different tasks.
Distinctiveness
The process of making an attribution based on how a person performed the same task on other occasions.
Consistency
The process of making an attribution based on how other people perform a specific task
Consensus
The process of making inferences and judgment’s about the cause of people’s behavior
Attribution
The leader’s tendency to be less likely to punish the follower who says he/she is sorry for his/her behavior
Apology Effect
The common tendency for the actor in a particular situation to blame external factors for his or her unsuccessful behavior while, concurrently, an observer tends to blame internal factors for same behavior
Actor/observer Bias
What people do or say. It is related to but not the same as what one thinks, how one feels, one’s underlying attitude, or overall performance in accomplishing tasks.
Behavior
That which typically results in unsuccessful task accomplishment.
Off Task Behavior
That which typically results in successful task accomplishment
On task behavior
Anything that follows a behavior (e.g. a person sticks his finger into a light socket and gets shocked.
Consequence
When reinforcement follows every correct or desired behavior. This results in the quick learning of new behavior, but poor sustained behavior when the reinforcement is removed.
Continuous Reinforcement schedule
A collection of three theories that, in different ways, explain how consequences that follow behavior control that behavior. The theories are operant conditioning, observation learning (aka social or vicarious learning), and self-regulation.
Motivation Through Consequence (MTC)
A theoretical model originating from psychologist B.F. Skinner that has changed over time. In this lesson it means “punishment”, Skinner’s original definition.
Negative Reinforcement
(aka vicarious learning and social learning): A method of learning by watching the behavior of others and the associated consequences. Includes concepts such as vicarious extinction-vicarious learning, vicarious punishment, and vicarious reinforcement.
OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING: (aka vicarious learning and social learning)
An approach to learning and motivation based on the relationship between person’s behavior and the consequences they subsequently personally experience.
Operant Conditioning
Any behavioral reaction that someone undertakes voluntarily in response to a demand or cue from his/her environment.
Operant Response
When reinforcements are administered irregularly by either time or by the number of correct or desired responses. This sustains behavior over long periods of time, as compared to continuous reinforcement.
Partial Reinforcement Schedules
(from operant conditioning) the effect of increasing the future, desired behavior by the presentation of a positive or pleasant consequence following current behavior
Positive reinforcement (reward contingency)
Any consequence that increases the occurrence of a behavior in the future.
Reinforcement
the effect of increasing the future, desired behavior by the presentation of a positive or pleasant consequence following current behavior
Reward Contingency same as Positive Reinforcement
The process of controlling one’s own behavior by comparing one’s behavior to one’s personal standards and subsequently apply internal consequences.
Self-Regulation
Involves learning by comparing oneself to others.
Social Comparison Processes
The presentation of reinforcements irregularly around an average time (e.g., after one day, three days, and two days, averaging reinforcement every two days). This is a powerful way to sustain desired behavior for long periods of time.
Variable Interval Schedule
The presentation of reinforcements irregularly around an average number of correct or desired responses (e.g., the way a slot machine pays out). This is a powerful way to sustain desired behavior for long periods of time.
Variable Ration Schedule
(From operant conditioning) When future behavior decreases in frequency because there is no consequence to a current behavior.
Extinction
(From operant conditioning) When reinforcers are presented after corrected or desired responses on a fixed time schedule (e.g. daily, weekly, monthly, etc.).
Fixed Interval Schedule
The presentation of reinforcements after a fixed number of correct or desired responses (e.g. after every third arrest).
Fixed Ration Schedule
A phenomenon that explains why some behaviors are repeated while others stop.
Law of Effect
Anything that provides direction, intensity, and persistence to behavior.
Motivation
An individual’s belief that he/she can perform a task to an acceptable level.
Expectancy
Claims that motivation is a function of expectancy, instrumentality, and valence.
Expectancy Theory of Motivation
A desired end state.
Goal
Selecting desired end states as a way to motivate human behavior
Goal Setting
The knowledge, skills, and abilities an individual possesses.
Individual Behaviors
The belief that achieving an acceptable level of performance will result of the task at hand.
Instrumentality
An acceptable level of accomplishment of the task at hand.
Performance Objective aka Performance Outcomes
The compensation that one receives for the amount of effort extended.
Reward aka Reward Outcome
The value a recipient places on a reward offered in exchange for completing a task.
Valence
Organizational member who demonstrates a high level of critical thinking but low levels of engagement in the organizational mission.
Alienated Follower
Organizational member who demonstrates a low level of critical thinking and a high level of engagement in the organizational mission.
Conformist Follower
Condition describing what happens to individuals who eventually fail as leaders, despite performing well for a long time in followership and junior leadership roles.
Derailment
Organizational member who demonstrates a high level of critical thinking and high levels of engagement in the organizational mission.
Exemplary Follower