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Leadership unit voca
Leadership unit vocab
| 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 | granted by the position rather than the individual's attributes |
| Reward Power | a power a leader has that allows them to give a reward to an employee as an incentive to improve. |
| Expert Power | having expertise in a specific area and confidently sharing your knowledge with others |
| 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 | making room for multiple people to participate in the decision-making process |
| Free-rein Leadership | a type of management style where supervisors give team members freedom to complete tasks, make decisions or solve problems without interfering, unless the employees request it |
| Delegate | entrust a task or responsibility to another person, typically one who is less senior than oneself |
| Self-managed teams | a team of employees who plan and execute their work together, without a supervising manager |
| 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 | the idea that effective leaders adapt their style to each situation |