Week 11: Leadership Motivation Flashcards
Organizational leadership
The act of influencing employees from various teams, units, and other groups to achieve a common purpose.
Challenges with leadership:
- Establishing a common purpose
* Orchestrating the efforts of many
Three control mechanisms:
- Output
- Behavior
- Organizational behavior
Implications of output control mechanism
- Easiest to implement
- May give rise to unethical behavior
- Not as objective
- not future-oriented.
Implications of behavior control mechanism
- Costly
* Difficult to implement everywhere/all the time.
Implications of organizational behavior
- Difficult to establish and change
- Effective once established
- Preserves individual autonomy.
High intensity, low agreement cultures
Warring factions
Low intensity, high agreement cultures
Vacuous
Benefits of goal-setting
Greater sense of purpose and meaning increase task interest and pride in performance
Characteristics of goals
- Attainable
- People must be committed
- Feedback
- Less complex tasks
Distributive justice
What decisions; equality vs. equity
Procedural justice
How decisions are made; consistent, unbiased, representative, appeals process
Define homophily
Rating similar people higher
Define halo effect
Rating high-status people higher
Define salience effect
Rating people who don’t fit a stereotype lower
What type of diversity stats should firms track?
- Percentage recruited, retained, and promoted
- Pay and promotion differentials
- Representation in upper management
What type of activities can firms employ to support success?
Training for minorities and bias training
Define assimilation
Purely numerical approach to diversity
Define differentiation
Niche market-based approach to diversity
Learning and effectiveness paradigm
Integrating diversity into actual work.
