OB Chapter 12 Flashcards
Leadership
Influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members.
Shared leadership
The view that leadership is a role, not a position assigned to one person; consequently, people within the team and organization lead each other.
Transformational Leadership
A leadership perspective that explains how leaders change teams or organizations by creating, communicating, and modelling a vision for the organization or work unit and inspiring employees to strive for that vision.
4 aspects of transformational leader
- build commitment to the vision
- develop/communicate a strategic vision
- encourage vision
- model the vision
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managerial leadership
A leadership perspective stating that effective leaders help employees improve their performance and well-being towards current objectives and practices.
Task oriented leadership
assigning employees to specific tasks, setting goals and deadlines, clarifying work duties and procedures, defining work procedures, and planning work activities
People oriented leadership
includes behaviours such as listening to employees for their opinions and ideas, creating a pleasant physical work environment, showing interest in staff, complimenting and recognizing employees for their effort, and showing consideration of employee needs
Servant Leadership
the view that leaders serve followers, rather than vice versa; leaders help employees fulfil their needs and are coaches, stewards, and facilitators of employee performance.
Path goal leadership theory
A leadership theory stating that effective leaders choose the most appropriate leadership style(s), depending on the employee and situation, to influence employee expectations about desired results and their positive outcomes.
Locus of Control
people who believe they have control over their work environment
Implicit leadership theory
A theory stating that people evaluate a leader’s effectiveness in terms of how well that person fits preconceived beliefs about the features and behaviours of effective leaders (leadership prototypes), and that people tend to inflate the influence of leaders on organizational events.
leadership prototypes—
preconceived beliefs about the features and behaviours of effective leaders
Romance of leadership
leadership is a useful way for us to simplify life events. It is easier to explain organizational successes and failures in terms of the leader’s ability than by analyzing a complex array of other forces.
people inflate their perceptions of the leader’s influence over the environment is that people want to believe that life events are generated more from people than from uncontrollable natural forces
