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Leadership Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Leader | A person or thing that holds a dominant or superior position within its field, and is able to exercise a high degree of control |
Leadership | The activity of leading a group of people or an organization or the ability to do this |
Power | Ability to cause or prevent an action, make things happen; the discretion to act or not act. |
Position Power | Authority and influence bestowed by a position or office on whoever is filling or occupying it. |
Reward Power | Authority and influence bestowed by a position or office on whoever is filling or occupying it. |
Expert Power | control the dispensing of rewards or benefits. |
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 | someones action that begins a process,often without influence |
Human Relations | an organization responsible for the management of hiring qualified persons |
Integrity | Strict adherence to a moral code |
Autocratic Leadership | One person controls all the decisions and takes very little inputs from other group members |
Democratic Leadership | a team guided by a leader where all individuals are involved in the decision-making process |
Free-rein Leadership | Leadership style where subordinates are not directly supervised and instead must function on own |
Delegate | Entrust a task or responsibility to another person, typically one who is less senior than oneself |
Self-managed teams | A self-organized, semi autonomous small group of employees whose members determine, plan, and manage their day-to-day activities |
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 | Popular model of leadership created by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, with belief that effective leadership requires flexibility in leadership styles depending on the situation. |