MGT 320 Exam 01, U of Alabama

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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.


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