Vocab: A - E
Leadership approach in which the leader creates strong relationships with an inside the team; team members are motivated by loyalty.
Affiliative Leadership Approach
Small groups of invited persons (typically) six to twelve) who actively participate in a structured discussion, led by a facilitator, for the purpose of eliciting their input.
Focus Group.
Power that is created formally, through a title or position in the hierarchy that is associated with the rights of leadership.
Legitimate Power.
Leadership approach in which the leader sets a model for high-performance standards and challenges followers to meet these expectations.
Pacesetting Leadership Approach.
Raw average of data that gives equal weight to all values, with no regard for other factors.
Unweighted Mean.
Motivation theory that states that the way a person interprets the causes for past success or failure is related to the present level of motivation; includes theories of Heider and Weiner.
Attribution Theory.
Ability to take an international perspective, inclusive of other cultures' views.
Global Mindset.
Leader-Member Exchange Theory.
Objective measurements that can be verified and used in statistical analysis.
Quantitative Data.
Extent to which a measurement instrument measures what it is intended to measure.
Validity.
Principles that guide decision making and behaviors in an organization.
Code of Conduct.
Societies or groups characterized by complex, usually long-standing networks of relationships; members share a rich history of common experience, so the way they interact and interpret events is often not apparent to outsiders.
High-Context Cultures.
Data sorting technique in which group members add related ideas and indicate logical connections, eventually grouping similar ideas.
Mind Mapping.
Type of analysis that starts with a result and then works backward to identify fundamental cause.
Root-Cause Analysis.
The benefit created when an organization meets its strategic goals; measure of usefulness, worth, or importance.
Value.
The differences between individuals on any attribute that may lead to the perception that another person is different from the self.
Diversity.
Maintaining consistency between one's values and one's actions.
Integrity.
Process by which two or more parties work together to reach agreement on a matter.
Negotiation.
Type of analysis in which a group identifies strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results; a framework that combines fact finding with an organization's goals and desires, presenting an analysis of the organization's actual state and how it will measure achievement.
SOAR Analysis.
Statistical method for identifying the degree of difference between planned and actual performance or outcomes.
Variance Analysis.
The ability to be sensitive to and understand one's own and others' emotions and impulses.
Emotional Intelligence (EI)
Visualization of the impact of change on productivity. When change is introduced, there is typically a decrease in productivity and then a gradual return to or, ideally, a surpassing of previous levels of productivity.
J-Curve.
Technique in which participants each suggest ideas through a series of rounds and then discuss the items, eliminate redundancies and irrelevancies, and agree on the importance of the remaining items.
Nominal Group Technique (NGT).
Leadership theory that emphasizes a leader's preference for order and structure; Focuses on control and short-term planning.
Transactional Leadership.
Average of data that adds factors to reflect the importance of different values.
Weighted Mean.