Leadership & Management Review

Confidence

A feeling or belief that someone can do something well or succeed at something.

Democratic Leadership Style

A leadership style that is characterized by considerable input from group members. Sharing decision making with others and encouraging subordinates to be involved in setting goals.

Charisma

A magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty. Personal appeal or attraction; magnetism

Planning

A management function that includes anticipating trends and determining the best strategies and tactics to achieve organizational goals and objectives.

Organizing

A management function that includes designing the structure of the organization. Also, creating conditions and systems in which everyone and everything work together to achieve the organization's goals and objectives. Obtaining and coordinating resources so that a business's objectives can be met.

Staffing

A management function that includes hiring, motivating, and retaining the best people available to accomplish the company's objectives. Recruiting, developing, and hiring the most qualified people.

Motivation

A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior. The reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.

Manager

A person who is in charge of someone or something. They focus on specific tasks. They give orders and carryout orders.

Self-Confidence

Acting sure of yourself and actually knowing what you are doing will be done well and / or successfully.

Decentralized Authority

Allows organizations to remain agile, fast, and adaptable with almost every employee receiving a high level of personal agency.

Line Authority Organization

An organization structure in which decision-making authority is maintained at the top level of management.

Centralized Authority

An organizing structure where the main unit has the power, right, and ability to control smaller units. An organization structure in which decision-making authority is maintained at the top level of management.

Four Types of Leadership Styles

Autocratic Leadership Style Democratic Leadership Style Open Leadership Style (Free Rein) Situational Leadership Style (Flexible)

Position Power

Based on the authority the leader has in an organization based on title. (example; the boss) Influence derived from one's formal structural position in the organization; includes power to hire, fire, discipline, promote, and give salary increases.

Reward Power

Based on the leader's ability to give/withhold rewards (not salary/wages). The ability of a manager to give or withhold tangible and intangible rewards (not salary / wages).

Expert Power

Based on the special knowledge, skills, and expertise that a leader possesses. The group members recognize a leader's superior knowledge in a specific area.

Two Types of Authority

Centralized Authority Decentralized Authority

Departmentalization

Divides responsibility among specific units, or departments.

Situational Leadership Style (Flexible)

Effective leadership varies with the "task" in hand and situational leaders adapt their leadership style to each situation.

Self-Managed Teams

Groups of employees with the authority and skills to manage themselves. Groups of workers who are given administrative oversight for their task domains.

Integrity

Honesty, high moral standards An unimpaired condition, completeness, and soundness. The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.

Autocratic Leadership Style

Management style identified with managers who tend to make decisions without soliciting input from subordinates. A form of leadership in which the leader makes decisions on his / her own and then announces those decisions to the group.

Controlling

Monitoring performance, comparing it with goals, and taking corrective action as needed within an organization. Setting standards for work, evaluating performance, and solving problems that prevent certain task completion.

Five Functions of Management

Planning Organizing Staffing Leading / Directing / Implementing Controlling

Four Types Leadership Power

Position Power Reward Power Expert Power Identity Power

Open Leadership Style (Free Rein)

Requires the leader to set goals for management and employees and then leave them alone to get the job done. This style show the most trust and confidence in workers.

Identity Power

Stems from the personal trust and respect members have for the leader; charisma.

Initiative

The desire to take action and get things done, without being told.

Directing / Leading / Implementing

The management function of providing guidance to workers and work projects. Influencing, guiding, and directing people under one's management to carry out their assigned tasks.

Sender

The originator of the message in the communication process. The individual who transmits a message.

Listener / Receiver

The person who receives the sender's message.

Human Relations

The study of the ways in which people relate and / or communicate with each other in group / organizational situations.

Leadership

The use of power and / or influence to direct the activities of followers toward goal achievement. Providing direction and vision for an organization.

How can an individual motivate others?

Using energy, enthusiasm, charisma, and / or charm. Having a goal and / or vision and communicating it effectively.