Leadership

What is the relational approach?

Focuses on the interaction of leaders and followers.

What is the Continuance of Group theory?

Focuses on what leaders do in groups.

What ideas did French and Raven contribute to leadership and the idea of power?

French and Raven came up with the six bases of power that leaders yield.

What did Watson Hoffman contribute?

Hoffman contributed the idea that leadership is affected by gender-biased perceptions.

What did Hogg contribute to leadership?

Hogg says that leadership emergence is the degree to which a person identifies with the group as a whole.

Who is House and what is his contribution to leadership?

House is a researcher. Him and 160 more researchers did a study on universal leadership attributes.

In the situational approach, what is a path-goal theory?

How leaders use employee motivation to enhance performance and satisfaction.

What is spiritual leadership?

How leaders use values and a sense of calling and membership to motivate followers.

What is leadership as an influential process?

Influential process means that it is not a trait or ability that resides in a leader but rather an interactive event that occurs between leader and follower.

What does Information Power mean?

Information Power means possession information that your followers need.

What are five universally accepted leadership attributes?

Intelligence, charisma, persistence, Confidence, Honest.

Who said leaders yield less power?

Keller said leaders yield less power.

What does LMX stand for?

Leader Member Exchange.

What does Kotter say about Leadership and Management?

Leaders produce change and movement- they produce adaptive and constructive change. Management provides order and consistency. They seek order and stability.

Why is leadership important?

Leadership is important because it is good to know what it means in order to understand your own style of leadership.

What does Legitimate Power mean?

Legitimate Power means having formal status or authority.

What is authentic leadership?

Looks at the authenticity of leaders and their leadership is enjoying strong interest.

What is the difference between managers and leaders?

Managers oversee day to day functions and only operate in the now; whereas Leaders operate in the future operations. Managers do things right, whereas leaders do the right thing.

Is behavioral focuses on traits or skills?

No, the behavioral approach is not focused on traits or skills but on observable behavior.

What is personal power?

Personal power is based on the influence capacity a leader derives from being seen by followers as likeable and knowledgeable.

What is position power?

Position power is the power a person derives from a particular office or rank in a formal organizational system.

What branch of power is legitimate, information, coercive, and reward power part of?

Position power.

How is power defined?

Power is having the potential and the capacity to influence others.

What process is power part of?

Power is part of the influence process.

What is process leadership?

Process leadership is the idea that leadership resides in the context of interactions between followers and leaders, and that leadership is available to everyone.

What does Referent Power mean?

Referent power means being adored by your followers as a leader.

What does Reward Power mean?

Reward Power is the capacity to provide rewards as a way to enhance performance and satisfaction.

Who is Seeman? What is his contribution to leadership?

Seeman brought forth the idea of behavioral leadership.

What is servant leadership?

Servant leadership focuses on the leader as a servant who focus on their followers' needs in order for them to become more knowledgeable and autonomous. Teaching them, in turn to become more like servants themselves.

What idea has Smith and Foti contributed to leadership?

Smith and Foti suggested that personality traits affect emergent leaders.

What is the LMX?

The LMX theory predicts that high-quality relations generate more positive leader outcomes than low-quality relations.

What does the ability approach suggest?

The ability approach suggests that everyone is able to be a leader.

What is the behavioral approach?

The behavioral approach focuses on what leaders do and how they act in a leadership role.

What is the behavioral approach to leadership?

The behavioral approach focuses on what leaders do and how they act.

Leaders and followers must be understood in relation to eachother?

True

Power is the ability to affect peoples' beliefs, and attitudes.

True

Leadership is an interactive event

True.

What does transformational leadership mean?

When one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

Can anybody be a leader with the skill approach?

Yes, as long as they are able to learn from their experiences.

Can anybody be a leader with the ability approach?

Yes. Anyone has what it takes to be a leader with the ability approach.

What is adaptive leadership?

Adaptive leaders encourage followers to adapt by confronting and solving problems and challenges. A learn as you go approach. LIKE MY EXPERIENCE AT RONALD WILLIAMS.

What styles focus solely on the leaders?

Trait approach and skill approach.

What does trait theory suggest?

Trait theory suggests that leaders are born and not made. It implies that people are born with the innate ability to lead.

What are the many approaches to leadership?

Trait, Skill, Ability, Situational, Behavioral, Relational, Emerging.

What is a disadvantage to the trait approach?

A disadvantage to the trait approach is that it support an elitist group in which only certain people can be leaders.

What is an example of a skilled leader?

A person who is starting up a new business knows the steps and procedures in order to be successful.

What is transformational leadership?

A process that changes people and organizations.

Leadership

A process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals in order to achieve a common goal

What does leadership as a skill mean?

A skill approach means that leaders have the competency to accomplish a task effectively.

What is a task behavior?

A task behavior focuses on how to get the job done. For example, a leader prepares an agenda for a meeting.

What is a trait?

A trait is a distinguishing quality of an individual. It is often inherited.

What has decreased respect for leaders and their power influence on followers?

Access to technology has decreased respect for leaders and their power influence on followers. Technology has made knowledge more accessible to employees in terms of what needs to be known and done.

What is the difference between assigned leadership and emergent leadership?

Assigned leaders have a designated leadership position whereas emergent leaders do not, and they have emerged as a leadership due to their interactions with other peers who have started to view them as leaders.

Emerging leaderships are?

Authentic leadership and spiritual leadership.

What does it mean to be a skilled leader?

Being a skilled leader means having competency. It means knowing what to do and how to do it.

What does Coercive Power mean?

Coercive Power means punishing, penalizing and threatening your followers as a leader.

What is the contingency theory within the situational approach?

Contingency theory means that different approaches are contingent upon different situations.

What does Expert Power mean?

Expert Power means being identified by your followers as being an expert and a wealth of information in which you have an abundance of knowledge. A followers' perception on the competence of their leader.

Power is the ability to affect peoples' lives and families

False

What is the new leadership approach?

The emergence of visionary or charismatic leadership theories.

What is the situational approach to leadership?

The situational approach states that different situations require different kinds of leadership.

What are the six bases of power, according to French and Raven?

The six bases of power, according to French and Raven, are: Referent Power, Expert Power, Reward Power, Information Power, Coercive Power, and Legitimate Power.

What does the term process mean in terms of leadership?

The term process implies that a leader affects and is affected by her or his followers.

What are the two general behaviors that leaders express?

The two behaviors that leaders express are task behaviors and process behaviors.

Why is there an ethical overtone to the relationship approach?

There is an ethical overtone with the relationship approach because leaders communicate and stress mutuality and when that happens it lessens the probability that the leader would act in an unethical or coercive way towards followers.

What branch of power is referent and expert power part of?

These are part of personal power.

What does the relationship process and influential process have in common?

They both have an ethical overtone in which acting in unethical and/or coercive manners toward followers are unlikely.

What is Leadership as a relationship?

This approach is centered on communications between leaders and followers. Less centered on the unique qualities of a leader.

What is a process behavior?

This is a process by which a leader helps their followers feel more comfortable and at ease in different situations. For example, a leader will help individuals in a group to feel included.