Lesson 7: Leading Flashcards
________ is that management function which “involves influencing others to engage in the work behaviors necessary to reach organizational goals .
The definition indicates that a person or group of persons tasked with managing a group must assume the role performed by __________.
- Leading
- leaders
refers to the function
Leading
refers to the process
Leadership
Frequently defined as a social (interpersonal) influence relationship between two or more persons who depend on each other to attain certain mutual goals in a group situation.
Leadership
________ helps individuals and groups achieve their goals by focusing on the group’s maintenance needs and task needs
Effective leadership
____ are expected to maintain effective work forces. To be able to do so, they are required to perform leadership roles.
Engineer managers
________ are said to be able to influence others because of the power they possess.
Leaders
____ refers to the ability of a leader to exert force on another.
Power
The power possessed by leaders may be classified according to various bases. They are as follows:
- legitimate power
- reward power
- coercive power
- referent power
- expert power
A person who occupies a higher position has ________ over persons in lower positions within the organization.
legitimate power
When a person has the ability to give rewards to anybody who follows orders or requests, he is said to have ____________.
reward power
Rewards may be
classified into two forms:
material and psychic.
________ refer to money or other tangible benefits like cars, house and lot, etc.
Material rewards
____________ consist
of recognition, praises,
etc.
Psychic rewards
When a person compels another to comply with orders through threats or punishment, he is said to possess ______________.
coercive power
When a person can get compliance
from another because the latter would want to be identified with the former, that person is said to have ____________
referent power
Experts provide specialized information regarding their specific lines of expertise. This influence, called ________, is possessed by people with great skills in technology.
expert power
The ____________ exercised by environmetal scientists was enough to force governments throughout the world to pass legislations favorable to environmental protection.
Expert power
“the process of influencing and supporting others to work enthusiastically toward achieving objectives.” And is expected of any manager in charge of any unit or division.
Leadership
Traits of Effective Leaders
- 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
are those identified as willing to accept responsibility, possess vigor, initiative, persistence, and health.
it is a very important leadership trait because of the possibility of failure in every attempt to achieve certain goals.
Personal Drive
There are some persons who have all the qualifications for leadership, yet they could not become leaders because they lack one special requirement: ____. Even if they are forced to act as leaders, they will not be effective because their efforts will be half-hearted. Leaders with ________ will always have a reservoir of extra efforts which can be used whenever needed
The Desire to Lead
A person who is well-regarded by others as one who has integrity possesses one trait of a leader. One who does not have personal integrity will have a hard time convincing his subordinates about the necessity of completing various tasks.
Personal 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
________ 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 and company
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 won, he will know he has done his best.”
Wess Roberts
A leader with sufficient skill to determine the root cause of the problem may be able to help the subordinate to improve his production. The ability to analyze is one desirable trait that a leader can use to tide him over many challenging aspects of leadership.
Analytical Ability
Industry or Technology. 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
When a person has sufficient personal magnetism that leads people to follow his directives, this person is said to have _____________.
This characteristic was greatly responsible for whatever accomplishments they achieved. 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 creativity 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
People differ in the way they do their work. One will adapt 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
There is wisdom in being ____. It allows the other means of achieving goals when the prescribed manner is not appropriate.
flexible
Leadership Skills (3)
- Technical skills
- Human Skills
- Conceptual Skills
These are skills a leader must possess to enable him to understand and make decisions about work processes, activities, and technology. ____ is the specialized knowledge needed to perform a job.
Technical skill
These skills refer to the ability of a
leader to deal with people, both inside and outside the organization.
- Good leaders must know how to get along with people, motivate them, and inspire them.
- Apart from motivating, it include coaching, communicating, morale building, training and development, help and supportiveness, and delegating.
Human Skills
Refers to “the ability to think in abstract terms, to see how parts fit together to form the whole.” A very basic requirement for effective implementation is a clear and well-expressed presentation of what must be done.
Conceptual Skills
