Management- Chapter 15 Flashcards
Leadership
The ability to influence people toward the attainment of organizational goals
Humility
Being unpretentious and modest rather than arrogant and prideful.
Servant Leader
A leader who serves others by working to fulfill followers’ needs and goals as well as to achieve the organization’s larger mission.
Authentic Leadership
refers to leadership by individuals who know and understand themselves, who espose and act consistent with higher order ethical values and who empower and inspire others with their openness and authenticity.
Interactive Leadership
A leadership style characterized by values such as inclusion, collaboration, relationship building and caring.
Consideration
The term used by researchers at The Ohio State University to descrive the extent to which a leader is sensitive to subordinates, respects their ideas and feelings, and establishes mutual trust.
Initiating Structure
The term that describes the extent to which a leader is task oriented and directs subordinates’ work activities toward goal accomplishment.
Leadership Grid
A two dimensional leadership model that measures the leader’s concern for people and concern for production to categorize the leader in one of five different leadership styles.
Contingency Approach
A model of leadership that descrives the relationship between leadership styles and specific situations.
Situational Model
This contingency approach links the leader’s behavioral style with the readiness level of the followers.
Substitute
A substitute for leadership is a situational variable that makes a leadership style redundant of unnecessary.
Neutralizer
A nuetralizer is a situational variable that counteracts a leadership style and prevents the leader from displaying certain behaviors.
Charismatic Leader
A leader who has the ability to inspire and motivate people to transcend their expected performance, even to their point of personal sacrifice.
Vision
Both charismatinc and transformation leaders provide followers with and inspiring vision, an attractive, ideal future that is credible yet nor readily attainable.
Transformational Leader
is distinquished by a special ability to bring about innovation and change by creating and inspiring vision, shaping values, building relationships and providing meaning for followers.
Transactional Leader
Clarifies subordinates’ roles and task requirements, initiates structure, provides regards and displays consideration for followers.
Critical Thinking
Thinking independently and being mindful of the effect of one’s behavior on achieving goals.
Uncritical Thinking
Failing to consider the possibilities beyond what one is told, accepting others’ ideas without thinking.
Effective Follower
A critical, independent thinker who actively participates in the organization.
Alienated Follower
A person who is a independent, critical thinker but is passive in the organization.
Conformist
A follower who participates actively in the organization but does not use critical thinking skills.
Passive Follower
One who exhibits neither critical independent thinking nor active participation.
Pragmatic Survivor
A follower who has qualities of all four follower styles, depending on which fits the prevalent situation.
Power
The potential ability to influence the behavior of others.
Influence
The efect a person’s actions have on the attitudes, values, beliefs, or behavior of others.
Legitimate Power
Power that stems from a manager’s formal position in an organization and the authority granted by that position.
Reward Power
Resultes from the authority to bestow rewards.
Coercive Power
Stems from the authority to punish or recommend punishment.
Expert Power
The power that results from a leader’s special knowledge or skill in the tasks performed by subordinates.
Referent Power
Results from characteristics that command subordinates’ identification with, respect and admiration for, and desire to emulate the leader.
