Exam 1 Review

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Moral Leadership is

distinguishing right from wrong and doing right; seeking the just, honest, and good in the practice of leadership.

Dependent, uncritical thinkers

do not consider possibilities beyond what he or she is told, does not contribute to the cultivation of the organization, & accepts the leader's ideas without assessing or evaluating them

Teams have individual "stars"

-False, teams do not have individual starts. -they don't necessarily make a team great.

To use Fielder's Contingency Theory, a leader needs to know:

-Whether they have a relationship or task-oriented style. -Whether leader-member relations, task structure, & position power are favorable or unfavorable

Capacity is

Ability?

Big 5 Personality dimensions

Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Openness to Experience

Self-Directed Teams

Teams made up of members who work with minimal supervision and rotate jobs to produce a complete product or service.

Socio-emotional Role

The team role associated with facilitating others' smoothing conflicts, showing concern for team members' needs and feelings, and serving as a role model

Operational Role

a vertically oriented leadership role in which an executive has direct control over people and resources

Effective followers

are both critical, independent thinkers & are active in the organization. They behave the same toward everyone regardless of their positions in the organization.

A key component of leadership is:

both being emotionally connected to others and understanding how emotions affect working relationships

Contingency approaches

can be best described as approaches that seek to delineate the characteristics of situations and followers and examine the leadership styles that can be used effectively.

Leaders of global teams have to

coordinate across time, distance, and culture

The ethical pressure that challenge leaders include:

cutting cost, increase profits, meet the demands of vendors or business partners, and looking successful

Being a good listener

expands a leader's role in the eyes of others because a good listener finds area of interest, affirms others, and builds trust

Insurance benefits or vacation time would be an example of

extrinsic rewards

Studying followership is important because

followers have an influence on leaders, desirable qualities in a leader are also desirable in a follower, and leaders and followers are roles that individuals shift in and out of in various conditions

Leadership involves

influence; it occurs among people: those people intentionally desire significant changes: and the changes reflect purposes shared by leaders and followers

Intrinsic Rewards

internal satisfactions a person receives in the process of performing a particular action

Openness to experience

is the degree to which a person has a broad range of interests and is imaginative, creative, and willing to consider new ideas.

Internal Locus of Control

is when a person believes that their actions determine what happens to them.

An open communication climate is essential because

it enables leaders to hear what followers have to say, which means the organization gains the benefit of all employees' minds

Servant Leadership

leadership in which the leader transcends self-interest to serve the needs of others, help others grow, and provide opportunities for others to gain materially and emotionally

Managers and leaders are different because:

managers maintain stability and leaders promote change

Collaborative leaders

need excellent people skills in order to network, build relationships, and obtain agreement through personal influence. They are also highly proactive.

The importance of motivation is

that it can lead to behaviors that reflect high performance within organizations

Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Theory focuses on:

the characteristics of followers as the most important element of the situation & consequently of determining effective leader behavior

Individualized Leadership is based on

the notion that a leader develops a unique relationship with each subordinate, which determines how the leader behaves toward the member & how the member responds to the leader

Mental Models

theories people hold about specific systems in the world and their expected behavior

A manager's role is that of "information processor", whereas a leader's role is

to communicate the vision and big picture, referred to as a communication champion- a person who is grounded in the belief that communication is essential to building trust and gaining commitment to a vision


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