management test 3 Flashcards
What is the definition of a leader?
One who influences others to work together for a common goal
People in organizations must ____ and work together to accomplish goals so ____ is needed for cooperation and ___.
Depend on others, trust, collaboration
Workforce trends stress need for trust. These trends include:
1) increased diversity, 2) increasing use of participative management styles and asking employees for opinons- allowing to them to be creative, and 3) increasing use of teamwork
What is a person who is being trusted?
Trustee
What is a trustor?
Person doing the trusting
What is the willingness to be vulnerable to trustee when trustee cannot be monitored or controlled?
Trust
What is trust?
Trustee, trustor, an aspect of relationships, and a behavior intention (willingness to take a risk)
What are trustworthy factors?
Influence perceptions of trust and are characteristics of the trustee
How do we decide whether to trust someone?
Trustworthy factors
What are the 3 trustworthy factors of trust?
Ability, integrity, and benevolence
What is ability?
Skills and competencies that allow the trustee to have influence in a particular domain
What is the extent to which the trustee follows a set of values that the trustor finds acceptable?
Integrity
What is benevolence?
The extent to which the trustee wants to do good for trustor without expecting anything in return
How does trust devlop?
Trustworthy factors -> trust -> risk -> risk taking in relationship -> outcomes
How does trust affect outcomes?
1) delegate risky tasks to employees, 2) spend less time monitoring employees, 3) can admit mistakes (organizaitonal learning), 4) focus on work that needs to be done, 5) an increase in OCB, 6) more accepting of change
What is it called if a manager develops and ustains trust, the firm could realize a significant competitve advantage?
Managerial implication
How does one manage risk?
Use trust or control mechanisms
How can managers influence the trust that employees place in them?
Consider system and improve them, and consider actions that lead people to form perceptions of your ABI (ability benevolence integrity)
What are the two trait theories of leadership?
Great-man theory and trait theory of leadership
What is the key to the trait theories?
Leaders are born and not made
What is the Great man theory?
Leader is born into position, they had a lot of charisma and intelligence, and CHANGED HISTORY
What does the Trait theory of leadership build on?
Big 5 Personalities
What does the Trait theory of leadership say?
You need to figure out personality aspects and traits that make someone a good leader
What does one need to be a more effect leader based on trait theory?
Extroversion, conscientousness, and open to experience
What was the Trait theory pushed by?
The industrial revolution where people moved from rural to urban areas
What is the key to behavioral theories of leadership?
Identify behaviors that can be learned so people can become leaders
What 2 behaviors did Ohio State say were important?
Initiating structure (task oriented) and consideration (people oriented)
What was initiating structure?
Leader emphasized rules in the workplace and focused on productivity, planning, and scheduling
What was consideration (leader treating employees well)?
The leader emphasizes high morale and allowed employees to have greater atonomy (decision making)
What does research say about Ohio States behaviors?
Leaders who have both initiating structure and consideration are most effective
How is leader decision making classifed by?
Authorization, democratic, laissez-faire