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Lead Org.
Chapter 2
Term | Definition |
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Achievement Motivation Theory | Attempts to explain and predict behavior and performance based on a personas need for achievement, power, and affiliation. |
Adjustment Personality Dimension | Includes traits related to emotional stability. |
Advantageous comparison | The process of of comparing oneself to others who are worse. |
Agreeableness Personality DImension | Includes traits related to getting along with people. |
Attitudes | Positive or Negative feelings about people, things and Issues |
Attribution of blame | Process of claiming the unethical behavior was caused by someone else's behavior |
Big 5 Model of Personality | Categorizes traits into the dimensions of surgency, agreeableness, adjustment, conscientiousness and openness to experience. |
Conscientiousness personality dimension | Includes traits related to achievement |
Diffusion of responsibility | The process of the group using unethical behavior with no one person being held responsible. |
Displacement of responsibility | The process of blaming one's unethical behavior on others. |
Disregard or distortion of consequences | The process of minimizing the harm caused by the unethical behavior. |
Ethics | The standards of right and wrong that influence behavior. |
Euphemistic labeling | The process of using "cosmetic" words to make the behavior sound acceptable. |
Leader Motive Profile (LMP) | Includes high need for power, which socialized; that is, greater than the need for affiliation and with a moderate need for achievement. |
Leader Motive Profile Theory | Attempts to explain and predict leadership success based on a person's need for achievement, power and affiliation |
Moral Justification | The process of reinterpreting immoral behavior in terms of a higher purpose. |
Openness to experience personality dimension | Includes traits related to being willing to change and try new things. |
Personality | A combination of traits that classifies an individuals behavior. |
Personality Profiles | Identify individual stronger and weaker traits. |
Pygmalion effect | Leaders' attitudes toward and expectations of followers and their treatment of them, explain and predict followers' behavior and performance. |
Relationship Management | Relates to ability to work well with others. |
Self-Awareness | Relates to being conscious of your emotions and how they affect your personal and professional life. |
Self-Concept | Refers to the positive or negative attitudes people have about themselves |
Self-Management | Relates to the ability to control disruptive emotions. |
Social Awareness | Relates to the ability to understand others |
Stakeholder Approach to Ethics | One creates a win-win situation for relevant parties affected by the decision. |
Surgency Personality Dimension | Includes leadership and extra-version traits. |
Theory X and Theory Y | Attempt to explain and predict leadership behavior and performance based on leader's attitude about followers. |
Traits | Distinguishing personal characteristics. |