Midterm Flashcards
The process of influencing and supporting other to work enthusiastically toward achieving objectives
Leadership
Leading people towards a main goal
Leadership
Three important elements in the definition
Goal achievement
Influence/Support
Voluntary effort
They achieve results by directing the activities of others
Managers
They create vision and inspire others to achieve this vision to stretch themselves beyond their normal caoabilities
Leaders
Traits of effective leaders
Physical
Intellectual
Personality
Height, body sizes and shapes and personal attractions
Physical
Intelligences, ambition, and aggressiveness
Intellectual
Characteristics
Personality
Two Types of Leadership Traits
Positive leadership traits
Negative leadership traits
Positive Leadership traits
Primary and Secondary traits
Primary traits
Personal drive and energy
Desire to lead
Honesty and integrity
Self-confidence
Secondary traits
Cognitive ability Charisma Flexibility Adaptiveness Positive effectivity Knowledge of business Creativity\Originality
Narcissism and alpha dogs
Negative leadership traits
In this view, successful leadership depends more on appropriate behavior, skills and action and less on personal traits
Leadership behavior
Three broad types of skills leaders use
Technical Skills
Human Skills
Conceptual Skills
Refers to a person’s knowledge and ability in any type of process and technique
Technical Skills
Ability to work effectively with people and to build teamwork
Human Skills
Ability to think in terms of plan
Conceptual skills
Ability to do manual labor
Technical skills
Low type of skill
Technical Skills
High type of skills
Conceptual skill
Successful leadership requires behavior that unities and stimulates followers toward defined objectives in specific situations
Situational flexibility
Refers to a role held by certain individuals in an organization, team or group.
Followership
Specifically, it is the capacity of an individual to actively follow a leader
Followership
Pattern of explicit and implicit leaders actions as seen by employees
Leadership styles
Approach emphasizes rewards, economic and supportive approach
Positive leadership
Emphasis is placed on threats, fear, harshness, intimidation and penalties
Negative leadership
Styles and the Use of Power
Autocratic leaders
Consultative leaders
Participative leaders
Centralizes power and decision making in themselves
Autocratic leaders
Approach one or more employees and ask them for inputs prior to making a decision
Consultative leaders
Decentralized authority
Participative leader
Concerned about the human needs of the employees
Consideration or Employee orientation
Believe that they get results by keeping people constantly busy, monitoring employee actions, ignoring their personal issues and emotions, and urging them to produce at ever-higher level
Structure or Task orientation
Managerial Grid
Robert R. Blake
Jane S. Mouton
5 different leadership styles
- 1 Management
- 9 Management
- 5 Management
- 1 Management
- 9 Managment
Have low concern for people and production
1.1 Management
High concern for people, low concern for production
1.9 Management
Balance and compromise
5.5 Management
Overly concerned in production to the exclusion of employees needs
9.1 Management
High concern is paid to both people and production
9.9 Management
Concern for people
Y-axis
Concern for Production
X-axis
Attention to needs of people for satisfying relationship leads to comfortable friendly org
1.9 Management
Work accomplishments is from committed people, Interdependence through a common state in org leads to trust and respect
9.9 Management
Adequate organization performance is possible through balancing the necessity to get out work with maintaining morale of people at satisfactory level
5.5 Management
Exertion of minimum effort to get work done is appropriate to sustaining org membership
1.1 Management
Efficiency of operations results from arranging conditions of work in such a way that human elements interfere to a minimum degrees
9.1 Management
These models state that the most appropriate style of leadership depends on an analysis of the nature of the situation facing the leader
COntingency approaches
The contingency model of leadership was developed by ___
Fred Fiedler
This model builds upon the previous distinction between task and employee orientation and suggests that the most appropriate leadership style depends on whether the overall situation is favorable, unfavorable or in an intermediate stage of favorability to the leader
Fiedler’s Contingency Model
Fiedler shows that a leader’s effectiveness is determined by the interaction of employee orientation with 3 additional variables that relate to the followers, the task and the organization:
Leader-member relations
Task Structure
Leader Position
They are determined by the manner in which the leader is accepted by the group
Leader-member relations
reflects to the degree to which one specific way is required to do the job.
Task structure
Types of Task Structure
Clear and Structured
Vague or Unstructured
describes the organizational power that goes with the position the leader occupies.
Leader position
Examples are power to hire and fire, status symbols and power to give pay raises and promotions.
Leader position
They are shown on the vertical scale
High and low employee orientation
They are shown on the horizontal scale
Eight distinct combinations
Eight distinct combinations
Good (Structured and Strong) Good (Structured and Weak) Good (Unstructured and Strong) Good (Unstructured and Weak) Moderately Poor (Structured and Strong) Moderately Poor (Structured and Weak) Moderately Poor (Unstructured and Strong) Moderately Poor (Unstructured and Weak)
Short for the situational leadership (or life-cycle) model
Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership
Situational analysis model was developed by __
Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchards
The model states the most important factors affecting the selection of a leader’s best style is the development (maturity) level of the subordinate.
Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership Model
Task specific combination of an employee’s task competence and motivation to perform (commitment) Managers assess development level by examining an employee’s level of job, knowledge, skill, and ability, as well as their willingness to take responsibility and their capacity to act independently.
Development level
The Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership Theory has two pillars: ___(Also called ___) orientations to create four major styles:
Guidance and Supportive
Task and Relationship
Telling
Selling
Participating
Delegating
The model is simple and intuitively appealing and accents an important contingency factor
Hersey and Blanchard Situational Analysis Leadership model
High directiveness and low supportiveness
Telling
High directiveness and high supportiveness
Selling
Low directiveness and high supportiveness
Participating
Low directiveness and low supportiveness
Delegating
The most direct form of leadership.
Telling
The leader of the group simply tells each member what to do, and how they would like them to do it.
Telling
When the follower cannot do the job and is unwilling or afraid to try, then the leader takes a highly directive role, telling them what to do but without a great deal of concern for the relationship. The leader may also provide a working structure, both for the job and in terms of how the person is controlled.
Telling
The employees have a desire to work independently but they are not capable of doing this yet.
Selling (Coaching)
They are employees who have not reached full maturity and are hindered by circumstances. By explaining his decision-making and by listening to the employee and giving him undivided attention, the leader is guiding him
Selling (Coaching)
At this level of situational leadership, the employees are capable but (temporarily) unwilling.
Participating (Supporting)
They are qualified workers but because of the number of tasks, they might get the idea that they are being inundated with work. This can make them insecure and reluctant. To take away this insecurity, it is important that the leader confers with the employees and supports them in their work.
Participating (Supporting)
By having employees participate in the decision-making process, acceptance will increase and the employees will be able to work independently again.
Participating (Supporting)