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Leadership Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Leader | A person who has commanding authority or influence. |
| Leadership | The office or position of a leader. |
| Power | Legal or office authority, capacity, or right. |
| Position Power | The authority given to a person because of their formal title, rank, or role. |
| Reward Power | The ability of a leader to motivate workers by providing positive rewards such as bonuses, promotions, or praise. |
| Expert Power | A form of personal power based on an individual’s superior knowledge, skills, experience, or expertise in a specific subject. |
| 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 power or opportunity to take charge before others do. |
| Human Relations | Relationships with or between people normally in a professional place. |
| Integrity | The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. |
| Autocratic Leadership | One person controls all the decisions and takes very little inputs from other group members. |
| Democratic Leadership | Leaders and team members are involved in the decision making process. |
| Free-rein Leadership | A hands off leadership style where leaders give hardly any direction and lets team members make the decisions. |
| Delegate | entrust a task or responsibility to another person, typically one who is less senior than oneself |
| Self-managed teams | A group of employees that work together to a goal without direction from a leader. |
| Open Leader | 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 | Leadership style where leaders change their directive and supportive behaviors to match the performance readiness. |