Week 4 - Social Identity Leadership

Question 1

Social identity approach

Answer 1

The self can change based on the situation and can be understood in different ways, like as an individual, a member of a group, part of an organization, belonging to a country, or as part of all humanity.

Question 2

Self-categorization theory

Answer 2

How people catergorize themselves in social groups, “Who am I?”

Question 3

Leadership attributions as outcomes of psychological group membership

Answer 3

In-group based trust
In-group based charisma
In-group based fairness

Question 4

Eccentric/exclusive view

Answer 4

We think of ourselves as unique individuals - personal identity, ‘I’ and ‘me’

Question 5

Concentric/inclusive view

Answer 5

We think of ourselves from a shared group membership point of view - ‘us’ , ‘we’

Question 6

Group identity

Answer 6

Self-esteem is derived from collective achievements
Motivation to cooperate is high within groups

Question 7

Subgroup identity

Answer 7

Self-esteem is derived from group achievements
Motivation to cooperate is high within groups and low across groups

Question 8

Personal identity

Answer 8

Self-esteem is derived from personal achievemtns

Question 9

Why does social identity matter?

Answer 9

Once we establish a shared social identity, we see ourselves as interchangeable with our group members.

Question 10

How can group functioning be facilitated?

Answer 10

Through situations that emphasize shared identity

Question 11

Leadership as social identity management

Answer 11

Leaders must have the ability to create, represent, advance and embed a special sense of ‘us’.

Question 12

The social identity approach

Answer 12

People define themselves through social identity as “us members,” not just personal identity as “I,” and are motivated to maintain a positive and distinct self-concept by viewing their in-group as special and favorable compared to out-groups.

Question 13

4 key elements of leadership

Answer 13

Leaders can be one of us
Leaders should be doing it for us
Leaders craft a sense of us
Leaders make us matter

Question 14

Being one of us

Answer 14

Leaders are ingroup prototypes and are more effective when they are perceived to represent a social identity we share

Question 15

Doing it for us

Answer 15

Leaders are ingroup champions: they are more effective when they are perceived to stand up for the social identity we share

Question 16

Crafting a sense of us

Answer 16

Leaders are entrepreneurs of identity: they ensure that they create and maintain a coherent sense of ‘we’ and ‘us’ and define what ‘us’ means

Question 17

Making us matter

Answer 17

Leaders are embedders of identity: they ensure that the rhetoric of ‘us’ is translated into lived experience

Question 18

The rise and fall of great leaders

Answer 18

Leader but not followers gets credit and reward for group success
Material and psychological distance between leader and followers

Question 19

CARE square

Answer 19

Crafting us, advancing us, representing us and embedding us

Question 20

Social influence as an outcome of pscyhological group membership

Answer 20

Only the behavior of an in-group member led participants to follow through

Question 21

In-group trust

Answer 21

Shared in-group membership provides the basis for establishing trust in relationships

Question 22

In-group charisma

Answer 22

Enhancing one’s in-group credentials will enhance charisma

Question 23

In-group fairness

Answer 23

The outcome of a leader’s behavior and of potential followers’ understanding of that behavior.

Question 24

Relative in-group prototypically

Answer 24

Degree to which an individual group member is similar to all other group members

Question 25

Leadership

Answer 25

The process of influencing others in a manner that enhances their contribution to the realization of group goals

Question 26

Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI)

Answer 26

Measures different leadership dynamics

Question 27

Social identity framing

Answer 27

How leaders use interpretative schemas to organize and make sense of events into a meaningful picture that helps guide action

Question 28

Social identity

Answer 28

The part of an individual’s self-concept which derives from their knowledge of their group membership (norms, attitudes and behaviors)

Question 29

Social identity theory of leadership

Answer 29

Leaders influence followers’ self-concept
Leaders act as ‘identity entrepreneus’

Question 30

Functions of a leader

Answer 30

Articulating a vision
Highlighting compatibility of vision with social identity
Persuading followers
Delineating practical means of vision attainment
Helping to organize the group to accomplish it

Question 31

Field theory

Answer 31

The more a group member values a leader, the greater the resistance will be toward change

Question 32

3 steps to framing

Answer 32

Social identity unfreezing:
Social identity moving:
Social identity freezing:

Question 33

Social identity unfreezing

Answer 33

Reducing resistance by lessening the social value of the group standard.

Question 34

Social identity moving

Answer 34

Detailing the change and moving the group standard to a new level

Question 35

Social identity freezing

Answer 35

Secure the new group standard to ensure the permanency of the change

Question 36

Followers’ reaction to leaders’ messages

Answer 36

Cognitive processing: must followers engage in effortful processing of the leader’s message for social identity reframing to occur?
- ELM
- Source cues (attractiveness, expertise, trustworthiness)

Question 37

Fraternal deprivation

Answer 37

A group member’s feeling of resentment stemming from perceiving an ingroup disadvantage compared to an advantaged outgroup

Question 38

Group types

Answer 38

The moral majority (powerful and large in number)
The elite (powerful, but relatively small in number)
The powerless populace (numerically large, but little power)
The subjugated (small in size, holds little power)

Question 39

Outgroup social identity framing

Answer 39

Redefining ingroup perceptions of social identity of the outgroup