LEADING Flashcards
The process of influencing and supporting others to work enthusiastically toward achieving objectives.
Leadership
The action of leading a group of people or an organization.
Leadership (Oxford Dictionary)
This is about taking risks and challenging the status quo.
Leadership
Enumerate the traits of an effective leader.
- A high level of personal drive
- Desire to lead
- Personal Integrity
- Self-Confidence
- Analytical Ability or Judgment
- Knowledge of the Company, Industry, or Technology
- Charisma
- Creativity
- Flexibility
The innate urge to attain a goal or satisfy a need.
Drive
Persons with ______ are those identified as willing to accept responsibility and possess vigor, initiative, persistence, and health.
Drive
An example of a person with a high level of personal drive is _________________, plant director of the Polo plant of San Miguel Corporation between 1992 and 1994.
Paul Mediarito
Leaders should have an intense desire to lead. This is what is called the __________ or the _____________.
Royal jelly, fire in the belly
There are some people who have all the qualifications for leadership, yet they cannot become leaders because they lack one special requirement: ______________________.
Desire to lead
Having an intense ______________ helps in innovating, solving problems, making decisions, and achieving organizational goals by setting priorities and focusing on key tasks.
Desire to lead
__________ is a quality that exists at the convergence of consistent acts and firm beliefs.
Integrity
It is a characteristic of people who always act honorably, even when no one is looking and specifically when it is challenging.
Integrity
When employees see their leader acting with _________, they are more likely to trust and respect them, leading to increased motivation, engagement, and productivity.
Integrity
According to ______________, ___________ means and includes “honesty, honor, incorruptibility, rectitude, righteousness, uprightness, and similar virtues.”
VK. Saraf, integrity
The activities of leaders require moves that will produce the needed outputs.
The steps of conceptualizing, organizing, and implementing will be completed if sustained efforts are made.
For the moves to be continuous and precise, ______________ is necessary.
Self-confidence
___________________ is necessary for leaders to take risks and accomplish high goals. Leaders who are ______________ tend to deal immediately and directly with problems and conflicts, rather than procrastinating, ignoring, or passing problems to others.
Self-confidence, self-confident
_____________ and company found in a study they conducted that leaders of mid-sized, high-growth companies were “almost inevitably consummate salesmen who radiate enormous contagious self-confidence.
McKinsey
He was very precise when he declared the following as one of the traits of a good leader:
- “A chieftain cannot win if he loses his nerve, He should be self-confident and self-reliant and even if he does not win, he will know he has done his best.”
Wess Roberts
The ability to analyze is one desirable trait that a leader can use to tide him over many challenging aspects of leadership.
Analytical Ability or Judgment
Leaders are, oftentimes, faced with difficulties that prevent the completion of assigned tasks. A subordinate, for instance, may have a record of continually failing to produce the needed output.
Analytical Ability or Judgment
___________ skills are important for leaders at all levels of an organization.
These skills are correlated with better strategy and performance
Analytical
A leader who is well-informed about his company, the industry where the company belongs, and the technology utilized by the industry, will be in a better position to provide directions to his unit.
Knowledge of the Company, Industry, or Technology
A company, for example, might be the industry leader because it satisfies the needs of its particular market, i.e., providing quality products at affordable prices.
Knowledge of the Company, Industry, or Technology
When a person has sufficient personal magnetism that leads people to follow his directives, this person is said to have _______________.
Charisma
Great personalities in history like ___________ Bonaparte,________ Caesar, ________ Hitler, __________ Washington, ________Presley, and others are said to possess charisma
Napoleon Bonaparte, Julius Caesar, Adolf Hitler, George Washington, Elvis Presley
When used properly, __________ will help the leader in achieving his goals. With some adjustments, subordinates may be expected to do their tasks willingly.
Charisma
_____________ defines ___________ as “the ability to combine existing data, experience, and preconditions from various sources in such a way that the results will be subjectively regarded as new, valuable, and innovative, and as a direct solution to an identified problem situation.”
Ronnie Millevo, creativity
A ______________ is an open, not closed or fixed, mindset that effectively creates meaningful and effective ideas and solutions.
creative mindset
There is wisdom in being ___________. It allows the other means of achieving goals when the prescribed manner is not appropriate.
Flexible
People differ in the way they do their work, one will adopt a different method from another person’s method. A leader who allows this situation as long as the required outputs are produced, is said to be flexible.
Flexibility
_______ (1974), defines _________ skill as the understanding of, and proficiency in, a specific kind of activity, particularly one involving methods, processes, procedures, or techniques.
Katz, Technical
An example of this is when the engineer manager of a construction firm must have sufficient __________ skills to undertake construction works. The manager of an electrical engineering firm must possess the skill to install and maintain electrical facilities and equipment.
Technical
_________ skill is, the “Ability to work effectively as a group member and to build cooperative effort within the team he leads” as defined by _______, (1974).
Human, Katz
A leader with highly developed ________ skills is aware of his own attitudes, expectations, and beliefs about other individuals and groups. I.e. Communication, Empathy, Self-awareness, Growth mindset.
It is mainly concerned with working with humans.
Human
____________ skill involves the ability to see the organization as a whole.
It also includes knowing how the various functions of the organization depend on each other, and how changes in one part affect the organization.
Conceptual
These skills refer to “the ability: to think in abstract terms, to see how parts fit together to form the whole.”
Conceptual Skills
Enumerate the Behavioral Approaches to Leadership Skills.
This is according to: F_____ and H____
- According to the ways leaders APPROACH people to motivate them.
- According to the way the leader uses POWER.
- According to the leader’s ORIENTATION towards tasks and people.
Those in positions of leadership exhibit a pattern of behavior that is unique and different from other patterns. This total pattern of behavior is called ______________.
Leadership style
When the leader’s approach emphasizes rewards, the style used is _________ leadership. The reward may be _________, like an increase in monthly salary, or it may be ____________ like membership in an advisory committee.
positive, economic, non-economic
There are two ways, a leader may approach people to motivate them. They are:
positive leadership and
negative leadership
When punishment is emphasized by the leader, the style is said to be __________ leadership. The punishment may take the form of reprimand, suspension, or dismissal.
negative
Leaders who make decisions themselves, without consulting subordinates.
Motivation takes the form of threats, punishment, and intimidation of all kinds.
This style is effective in emergencies and when absolute followership is needed.
Autocratic Leaders