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Comm 151 - Chapter 9
Leadership
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Leadership? | • The influence that particular individuals exert on the goals achievement of others in an organizational context o Enhancing productivity, innovation, satisfaction and commitment on the workforce |
| Strategic Leadership | leadership that involves the ability to anticipate, envision, maintain flexibility, think strategically, and work with others to initiate changes that will create a viable future for the organization |
| Informal Leader | do not have formal authority, thus they rely on being liked and being perceived as highly skilled to exert influence. |
| Leadership Trait Theory | • Although some traits appear to be related to leadership, there are several reasons why the trait approach is not the best means of understanding and improving leadership o Difficult to distinguish whether the traits make the leader, or the situations |
| Consideration and Initiating Structures | • Consideration is more related to employee motivation, job satisfaction and leader effectiveness while initiating structure is more related to job performance and group performance |
| Fiedler's Contingency Theory and Cognitive Resource Theory | Fred Fiedler’s theory that states that the association between leadership orientation and group effectiveness is contingent on how favourable the situation is for exerting influence |
| House's Path-Goal Theory | Robert house’s theory concerned with the situations under which various leader behaviours (directive, supportive, participative, achievement-oriented) are most effective |
| Descriptive Behaviour | schedule work, maintain performance standards and let employees know what is expected of them; essentially identical to the initiating structure approach |
| Supportive Behaviour | supportive leaders are friendly, approachable and concerned with their employees; essentially identical to consideration |
| Participative Behaviour | participative leaders consult with employees about work-related matters and consider options |
| Achievement- Oriented Behaviour | encourage employees to exert high effort and strive for a high level of goal accomplishment, They express confidence that employees can reach these goals |
| Transactional Leadership | leadership that is based on a straightforward relationship between the leader and the follower; employees perform well, and the leader rewards them; contingent reward behaviour |
| Transformational Leadership | leadership that provides followers with a new vision that instills true commitment; intellectual stimulation, individualized consideration, inspirational motivation, charisma |
| Barriers that Women encounter in Organizations | • Vestiges of predjuces • Resistance of women’s leadership • Issues of leadership style |
| Agentic Traits | • Dedicated • Charismatic • Intelligent • Determined • Aggressive • Competitive |
| Communal Traits | • Caring • Sensitive • Honest • Understanding • Compassionate • Sympathetic |
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c.bertrand
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