MGT 320 Exam 01, U of Alabama
Self-Awareness:
Understand your impact on others
Human capital:
Becoming more important than financial capital, which increases
In almost all leadership situations, it is desirable for the leader to be:
ENTHUSIASTIC
Mindfulness:
Effective leaders strive to keep an open mindness and cultivate an organizational environment that encourages curiosity and learning.
The traits, motives, and characteristics required for leadership effectiveness are caused by:
Heredity and environment
People with Theory X attitudes:
Hold that employees dislike work and must be closely supervised in order to do their work
Management:
In terms of relationships, management focuses on getting the most results out of people so that production goals are achieved and goods and services are provided to customers in a timely manner.
Attribution of blame:
Is the process of comparing the your behavior to someone else's. "IT's my coworkers fault i hit because he called me a name"
There is an art and science to:
Leadership
Ethical behavior is affected by:
Moral development and understanding right from wrong.
Self-Confidence:
Not only a personality trait but it also refers to a behavior and an interpersonal skill that a person exhibits in a number of situations.
Using ........ makes you appear more approachable and likeable
Self-depreciating humor
Humility:
There is a leadership value in humility, and thus effecitve leaders recognize that good leadership is putting people in the limelight, not yourself
Leader Motive Profile:
This is power since this is so essential to leaders for influencing followers. Without power, there is no leadership.
Self-Management:
ability to control your emotions and act with honesty and integrity in a consistent and adaptable manner
Euphemistic labeling:
is the process of using "cosmetic" words to make the behavior sound acceptable. Terrorist group sounds bad but freedom fighter sounds better.
Most employees are not promoted to a management position because of their leadership skills but instead:
because of their technical skills
Great Man Theories:
believe that leaders (who were always thought of as male) were born with certain leadership traits and natural abilities of power and influence.
Trust:
defined as a person's confidence in another individual intentions and motives and in the sincerity of that individuals word.
Authentic Leaders:
demonstrate a passion for their purpose, practice their values consistently and lead with their hearts as well as their heads
Executive Coaches:
encourage leaders to confront their own flaws and hang-ups that inhibit effective leadership, and then help them develop stronger emotional and interpersonal skills.
Social Awareness:
having empathy for others and having intuition about organizational problems
People with Theory Y attitudes:
hold that employees like to work and do not need to be closely supervised in order to do their work
Relationship Management:
interpersonal skills of communicating clearly and convincingly, disarming conflicts and building strong personal bonds
Leadership:
involves non coercive influence
Higher Purpose:
is rationalizing behavior in terms of a higher purpose "its for the greater good"
Displacement of responsibility:
is the process of blaming one's unethical behavior on others. "I was only following orders"
Advantageous Comparison:
is the process of comparing oneself to others who are worse "I call in sick when im not sick but tom does it all the time"
Disregard or distortion of consequences:
is the process of minimizing the harm caused by the unethical behavior "IF i get caught, it will be a slap on the wrist"
Diffusion of responsibility:
is the process of the group using the behavior with no one being held responible. "My boss told me too"
Managers with Theory X:
negative, pessimistic view of employees
Managers with Theory Y:
positive, optimistic view of employees
Achieve Motive:
refers to a leaders propensity to put forth high energy into achieving objectives and to persistence in applying that energy.
Derailment:
refers to a phenomenon in organizations in which a manager with an impressive track record reaches a certain level but goes off track and cant advance because of a mismatch between job needs and the managers personal skills and qualities.
Assertiveness:
refers to being forthsight in expressing demands, opinions and feelings.
Locus of control:
refers to whether a person feels personally responible for events happening to him or her, helping the leader deliver a take-charge attitude vs someone who believe they have no control over their fate.
Traits, motives and characteristics:
required for leadership for effectiveness that are caused by a combination of heredity and environment.
Ethics:
standards of right and wrong behavior
Emotional Intelligence:
understanding your feelings, empathy for others, and the regulation of emotions to enhance living.