Leadership terms and questions

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PROJECTION   Attributing to others our own traits and motives.  
SNAP JUDGEMENTS   Instant evaluation without the benefit of fact or experience.  
HALO EFFECT   Assuming because a person is good at one thing, he or she will be good at something else.  
FALLACY OF COMPOSITION   Assuming what is true of a part is true of the whole.  
FALLACY OF DIVISION   Assuming what is true for the whole is true for each of the parts.  
POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC   After this, therefore because of this. The fallcy of false cause assumes that when one event precedes another. The first event is the cause of the second event.  
FALLACY OF WISHING IT WERE SO   Ignoring reality to hold onto assumptions.  
TWO-VALUED REASONING   Viewing a situation as good or bad; right or wrong; no other possibilities.  
MULTIVALUED REASONING   Recognizing there maybe more than two sides to a situation.  
What are the nine steps to decision making?   Problem Recognition; Problem Definition; Setting Objectives; Group Identification; Generating Options; Evaluating Options; Option Selection; Option Implementation; Decision Evaluation.  
INTUITION   Reaching conclusions from feelings rather than from logic.  
What are some pitfalls to Decision making?   Making unnescessary decision; not considering the cost; procrastination; environmental changes.  
PERCEPTION   Directly becoming aware through any of the senses  
MENTAL SET   Perceiving what we want, regardless of reality  
PERCEPTUAL FILTERS   Attitudes about people and things.  
FACT   Anything we all agree to be true.  
INFERENCE   A conclusion reached from information we know or assume to be true.  
OPINION   A belief or conclusion not proven.  
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE   Employees receive rewards or outcomes fairly.  
NEUTRALIZERS   Attributes of subordinates, tasks or organizations that interfere with or diminishes a leader's attempt to influence employees.  
LEADERSHIP   The ability to influence the activities of others through communication, to reach a goal.  
What is the difference between leadership and management?   Leadership is concerned with moving people towards a vision and managements concern is focused on the present and day-to-day running of an organization. (See more differences on pg. 367, The Human Side of Organizations - 9th Edition)  
MANAGEMENT   The process of planning, controlling, organizing and directing resources.  
FORMAL LEADERSHIP   Leadership arising from an organization (through promotion or recruitment) to accomplish organizational objectives.  
AUTHORITY   Power given to make decisions and direct others.  
ACCOUNTABILITY   Answering to ones boss.  
RESPONSIBILITY   An obligation to perform a required task or to make sure someone else does the task in a prescribed way.  
POWER   The ability to command resources.  
PERSONAL POWER   An individual's power.  
INSTITUTIONAL POWER   Power from an organization.  
EXPERT POWER   Power from knowledge.  
COERCIVE POWER   Power from the threat of physical harm.  
REWARD POWER   Power to give people what they want.  
COERCIVE INSTITUTIONAL POWER   Power from nonphysical threats.  
LEGITIMATE POWER   Power from one's position in an organization.  
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERS   are defined by their achievements. They help others to reach their goals/ self actualization (see Maslow's theory).  
CHARISMATIC LEADERS   have the ability to inspire trust and confidence. Followers tend to indentify with them.  
CONTIGENCY AND SITUATIONAL LEADERS   belive that leadership may need to change based on the situation.  
FIELDER'S CONTINGENCY THEORY   The leader's style cannot change. Assign the leader to a situation that needs or matches that style.  
HERSHEY-BLANCHARD SITUATIONAL MODEL   Leaders can change their leadership methods.  
PATH-GOAL THEORY   Robert House's theory that states that a manager can and should adapt a leadership style based on the circumstance.  
THEORY X   Douglas Macgregor's theory on the atttitudes of employees who need to be motivated. Most employees dislike work and will avoid it when they can.  
THEORY Y   Macgregor's theory on self-motivated employees. Most employees find work as natural as play.  
DERIVED X THEORY   The "I've been burned theory" is a pessimistic outlook, by managers, on employees.  
TRADITIONAL LEADERSHIP   Leadership through fear and intimidation.  
BEHAVIORAL LEADERSHIP   The application of positive techniques of leadership.  
AUTOCRATIC STYLE   Leadership style where others are simply told what to do.  
PARTICIPATIVE LEADERSHIP   Employees share in the decision making process.  
FREE REIN LEADERSHIP   Also called laissez-faire leadership; an absence of direct leadership. Group members use their own methods to accomplish goals.  
TECHNICAL SKILLS   The knowledge, skills and ability to perform a required task.  
HR SKILLS   Behavioral skills; being able to work effectively with and through others.  
CONCEPTUAL SKILLS   Being able to think abstractly and analytically; seeing the big picture.  
What are the four main functions of a manger?   One who plans, controls, organizes and directs organizational resources.  
What are the four main organizational resources?   Financial; Human; Informational; Material.  
ORGANIZATION OBJECTIVES   Objectives that must be measurable, they must contain a verb and mention time.  
PLANNING   Involves establishing the route that the organization will take. It includes setting goals and objectives to establishing standard operating procedures.  
CONTROLLING   Involves supervising, disciplining, evaluating, and managing the change of the four resources.  
ORGANIZING   Involves the grouping of the four resources.  
DIRECTING   Involves leading and motivating.  
POLITICALLY POPULAR DECISION   Decision made in order to satisfy the majority of people involved.  
PERSONAL POLITICAL DECISION   A decision that benefits the decision maker.  
SUPERIOR'S POLITICAL DECISION   A decision to benefit the decision maker's boss.  
POLITICALLY REWARDING DECISIONS   Decisions made in order to repay a favor.  
POLITICALLY PUNISHING DECISIONS   Decisions made to exact revenge or to penalize.  
TEMPORAL DECISIONS   Decisions based on time.  
EMERGENCY TEMPORAL DECISIONS   Decisions made during a crisis.  
QUICK TEMPORAL DECISIONS   Decisions made in a short time, but not during a crisis.  
DELAYED DECISIONS   Decisions taking longer time than is needed.  
BARRIER DECISIONS   Decisions that are delayed by adding new conditions or barriers.  
NONDECISION   Never making a decision; saying no by saying nothing.  
EMOTIONAL DECISIONS   are based on feelings.  
ANGRY EMOTIONAL DECISIONS   are based on feelings of rage.  
AFFECTIVE EMOTIONAL DECISIONS   are based on sentiment, instinct or gut reaction.  
ECONOMIC DECISIONS   are based on concern for money  
RISK-BASED DECISIONS   involves the chance of loss or injury.  
HIGH-RISK DECISIONS   are based on the strong chance of failure or loss.  
LOW-RISK DECISIONS   involves little chance of visible failure.  
CONFLICT-BASED DECISIONS   are based on whether the cause or avoid conflict.  
BUCK-PASSING DECISIONS   Decisions that are passed on to someone else.  
What are the three methods of coping with decisions?   Escapism; Amnesia; Anger  
AUTHORITY PRINCIPLE   The manager's right to direct employees to accomplish the organization's goals.  
UNITY OF COMMAND PRINCIPLE   Each person should have one employee.  
UNITY OF DIRECTION PRINCIPLE   Similar tasks and tasks working towards the same goal should be grouped together.  
COMMAND SYSTEMS   Heirarchies with narrow spans of control; an emphasis on downward communication and a strict adherence to rules.  
TIME-MOTION STUDIES   A research involves the time and movements required to finish a job.  
BEHAVIORAL MANAGEMENT   A system that recognizes the human, social needs in the workplace.  
THE HAWTHORNE STUDIES   A study on the effects of productivity as a result of changes in the working environment. This research led to the development of Behavioral Management.  
TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM)   An organization's effort to maximize product and service quality.  
PLAY IT BY NUMBERS   Doing what the rule book says.  
ABDICATION   Passing authority to others.  
OBFUSCATION   Clouding and confusing issues.  
THE PETER PRINCIPLE   Being promoted to one's level of incompetence.  
FRAT   File it; Refer It; Act on it; Trash it.  


   

 
 

 
 

 

 
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