Exam 1 Review
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