Nursing Leadership Theory Flashcards
Focus on leadership traits
Person must have certain innates abilities or personality trait that make them better leaders
Trait theories
Leadership is INHERENT. Leaders are born not made.
Great man theory
Term used due to leadership was primarily male quality
Military leadership
Extraordinary qualities. Tireless ambition and extremely persuasive
Trait theories
Common traits of leaders
Positive and negative
Bring people to progress. Transced their own traits and cheerful
Positive traits
Take people to destruction. Destroy over build. Bitter and Aggressive
Negative traits
Unable to growngood leaders but followers who go after each other
Negative traits
Trait Theories include
Greatman theory
Napoleon complex
Individual characteristic theory
First to identify particular personality of behavioral characteristics shared by leaders
STOGDILL
Leaders tended to be higher than non leaders in intellegence
STOGDILL. Trait theory
Determine wheter or nota person can be an effective leader. INNATE CHARACTER
Individual character theory
Distinctive physical and psychological individual (TALL)
Individual characteristic theory
Who proposed Napoleon complex
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leaders are small than average height
NAPOLEON COMPLEX
Describe people who are driven by a perceived handicap to overcompensate of their lives
Napoleon Complex
What leaders DO and ACT rather than WHO the leader is
Behavioral theories
Action NOT mental quality
Behavioral theory
Behavioral theory is taught through
Experience and Observation