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Leadership Vocabular
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Leader | the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country |
| Leadership | the action of leading a group of people or an organization. |
| Power | the ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality. |
| Position Power | is the authority you wield by virtue of your position |
| Reward Power | is conveyed through rewarding individuals for compliance with one's wishes. |
| Expert Power | is the perception that a certain person has an elevated level of knowledge or a specific skill set that others in an organization don't have. |
| 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 | the ability to assess and initiate things independently |
| Human Relations | relations with or between people, particularly the treatment of people in a professional context. |
| Integrity | the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. |
| Autocratic Leadership | one person controls all the decisions and takes very little inputs from other group members |
| Democratic Leadership | is a type of leadership style in which members of the group take a more participative role in the decision-making process. |
| Delegate | entrust a task or responsibility to another person, typically one who is less senior than oneself |
| Self-managed teams | is a self-organised, semi-autonomous group of employees. |
| 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 | This involves shared decision-making about the tasks and how they should be accomplished, with less supervision. |