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Leadership
Business and Technology Unit One Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Leader | A superior person whose position has the ability to influence others within their field. |
| Leadership | The ability to lead a group of people within an organization. |
| Power | The capability to avert an event and/or making it happen. |
| Position Power | Authority granted by a superior position. |
| Reward Power | Position that distributes awards. |
| Expert Power | Capability to influence others due to previous experience. |
| Identity Power | Ability to influence others based on their identity with the person. |
| Leadership Style | The manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people to accomplish a task. |
| Initiative | A process that begins with one who starts an action without any superior influence. |
| Human Relations | The addressing of communicational behavior by resource management’s disciplinary actions. |
| Integrity | Strict compliance to moral code which corresponds with one’s honesty concerning their thought process, verbal phrases, and physical actions. |
| Autocratic Leadership | One person controls all the decisions and takes very little inputs from other group members. |
| Democratic Leadership | Team with a leader who has the power to finalize the team’s decision. |
| Free-rein Leadership | Inferiors who must prove their capability to superiors through independent function that displays exemplary achievements. |
| Delegate | Entrust a task or responsibility to another person, typically one who is less senior than oneself. |
| Self-managed Teams | Small group that self manage their daily activities with little to no superior interference. |
| Open Leader | Having the confidence and humility to give up the need to be in control while inspiring commitment from people to accomplish goals. |
| Situational Leader | Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard’s belief that pliancy of leadership styles is required for effective leadership. |