Topic 5: LEADING Flashcards
Traits which are heavily dependent upon heredity
Emergent Traits
Traits based on experience or learning including charisma as fundamental component of leadership
Effectiveness Traits
Leaders have complete power over staff;
Staff and team members have little opportunity to
make suggestions
Autocratic Leadership Style
Leaders make final decisions but include team members in the decision making;
Encourage creativity and team members are often highly engaged in projects and decisions
Democratic / Participative Leadership Style
Put the needs, aspirations and interests of their followers above their own
Servant Leadership
Serving others to be what they are capable of
becoming
Servant Leadership
Valuing each person individually and to be mindful
of them as human beings
Servant Leadership
Involving other in the decision making, based on
ethical and caring behavior, enhances growth of workers
Servant Leadership
Promotes a style of guidance that emphasizes motivating employees, creating a vision and encouraging them to fulfill it.
Transformational Leadership Style
● Challenge the standard state of affairs
● Encourage creativity
● Explore new ways of doing things
Intellectual Stimulation
● Provide support and encouragement to individual employees
● Keep communication fluid
Individualized Stimulation
● Articulate a clear transformational vision
● Help generate and sustain passion and motivation to fulfill the envisioned change
Inspirational Motivation
● Leader is a role model
● Emulated because they are trusted and respected
Idealized Influence
Individuals are not self-motivated and need structure instruction and supervision to accomplish their jobs
Transactional Leadership Theory
States that workers will perform as they are asked to in exchange for something they want such as pay
Transactional Leadership Theory
Lives strictly by their rules
Transactional Leadership Theory
Reward for performance
Contingent Award
Responds to deviations in standards as soon as possible
Management by exception (ACTIVE)
Responds to deviations in standards only when necessary
Management by exception (PASSIVE)
An art of motivating a group of people to act toward achieving a common goal
Leadership
Relationship based on the authority that exists between managers and subordinates in order to produce and sell goods and services;
An executive function for carrying out agreed policy
Management
Four distinct components of transformational leadership
● Intellectual Stimulation
● Individualized Consideration ● Inspirational Motivation
● Idealized Influence
Assumes that there are superiors and subordinates;
Seeks to have subordinates deliver specific results that are articulated and measurable
Transactional Leadership Theory
Able to mobilize, inspire and boast morale of employees;
● Lead by example
● Incorporate empathy, support and inspiration
● Focuses on faulty systems
Transformational Leadership Theory
Traits of a servant leader
● Listener
● Has empathy
● Aids healing
● Mindful and aware
● Persuasive
● Able to foresee (challenges)
● Steward
