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Topic 17: Leadership Flashcards

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What types of leadership models perspectives are there?

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  • Compotency/Trait
  • Behavior/Transformational
  • Contingency
  • Romance
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Define Leadership.

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Influencing, motivating and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organisations of which they are members

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Outline the trait/competency perspective.

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Leaders behave differently, and are more or less effective, because of relatively stable personal characteristics such as personality, charisma or intelligence.

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What traits are considered in the competency perspective of leadership?

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  • Drive (to achieve).
  • Desire to lead.
  • Honesty and integrity.
  • Self confidence.
  • Intelligence.
  • Job-relevent knowledge.
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What do modern theories of intelligence include?

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  • Analytical reasoning ability.
  • Social intelligence.
  • Emotional intelligence.
  • Creativity.
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What is the followers view of leadership traits?

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  • Intelligence.
  • Masculinity.
  • Dominance.
  • Adaptability.
  • Honesty.
  • Future-orientated.
  • Inspiring.
  • Competent.
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What are some problems with the trait approach?

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  • Traits only explain a part of what leaders do.
  • Training can influence behavior.
  • Organisations only have a limited pool of leaders.
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Outline the behavioral perspective.

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  • Group members have two roles that must be furfilled for effective group functioning.
    • Task oriented role
    • Socio-emotional role
  • Leaders use behaviors from these two roels to assist followers, in an appropriate combination to the situation.
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List the behavioral models.

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  • Transformational.
  • Transactional.
  • Authentic.
  • Shared.
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What is leadership reward behavior?

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  • Part of behavioral leadership perspective.
  • Extent to which the leader provides rewards contingent on employee goal achievement to shape behavior
  • Is employee and task orientated
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What is the transformational leadership model?

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Describes a set of behaviors and processes needed to bring about commitment to organisational goals. Very important when change is needed.

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What are the key elements of transformational leadership?

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  • Creating a strategic vision.
  • Communicating the vision.
  • Modeling the vision.
  • Building commitment.
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What is transactional leadership?

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  • Describes behaviors that help orginasationa achieve their objectives more efficiently.
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What are the processes in transformational leadership.

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  • Leader behavior:
  • Effects on followers and work groups:
  • Outcomes
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Imagine the authentic leadership model diagram

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What are some problems with the leader behavior perspective?

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  • Failure to recognize different ways of being task orientated.
  • Sometimes transformational leadership is unnecessary.
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Describe the contingency perspective.

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Which leadership traits and behaviors are effetive depends on the situation face by the leader.

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List the contingency models.

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  • Fiedler’s contingency model
  • Path-goal theory
  • Situational leadership theory (Hersey & Blanchard)
  • Substitutes for leadership
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What is the LPC model? Explain it.

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The least prefered coworkers model.

  • People with relationship-oriented leadership style will describe their least-preferred coworker in relatively favourable terms.
  • Hi LPC leaders will be effective in some situations
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What is fiedlers model?

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  • Relates natural leadership style to situations where the leader will be effective.
  • Says that relationship-oriented leaders will be good when there is good relations with coworkers and task structure and position power is low.
  • Otherwise task-orientated leaders are good.
  • Not well supported in the data due to poorly definined values and surveys.
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What is path goal theory?

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Derives from expectancy theory.

Says that leaders can have different styles to direct situations.

  • Directive (hi task, lo person).
  • Supportive (hi person, lo task).
  • Participative (hi person, hi task).
  • achievement (hi task? hi person?)
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What factors are contingencies in path-goal theory?

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Employee contingencies:

  • Skills and experience.
  • Locus of control.

Environmental contingencies:

  • Task structure.
  • Team dynamics.
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What are the measures of leadership effectiveness in path-goal theory?

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  • Motivated employees.
  • Satisfied employees.
  • Leader acceptance.
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Show how the employee contingencies in path goal theory relate to the leadership behaviors.

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Show how the environemental contingencies in path goal theory relate to the leadership behaviors.

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What are the limitations of Path-Goal theory?

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  • People still think hi task, hi person (i.e. achievement orientated) is a univerally effective style.
  • Too complex to use?
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What are some substitues for leadership?

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  • Enriched job design.
  • Peers and coworkers.
  • Formalisation of rules.
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What is the romance view of leadership?

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  • That when firms perform well, leaders are drastically ‘over valued’.
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What are the values of ethical leadership?

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  • Prodence.
  • Courage.
  • Temperance.
  • Justice.
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Show the followership styles diagram.

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