What is a leader?
What are the 3 main personality traits shown by leaders?
Self assurance
Independence
Individuality
Name one component of Fiedler's Contingency Leadership model.
Leader- member relations
Task structure
Position power
What is charismatic leadership?
A leader who creates an atmosphere of motivation based on an emotional commitment to and identity with his or her vision, philosophy, and style on the part of followers.
What is the trait theory of leadership?
an attempt to identify specific characteristics (physical, mental, personality) associated with leadership success.
What is the Vroom-Jago leadership model?
a model that specifies which leadership decision-making procedures will be most effective in each of several different situations.
What are the two types charismatic leaders?
Visionary leadership
Crisis-produced leader
What are the four describing aspects of leadership?
Provide direction
Generate trust
Favor action and risk taking
Be purveyors of hope and success
What are the three components of the Vroom-Jago leadership model?
specification of criteria
framework for describing specific leader behavior
key diagnostic variables that describe aspects of leadership
What is a transactional leader?
This leader helps the follower identify what must be done in order to accomplish the desired results.
How could intelligence affect a leader?
It could be functional or dysfunctional, for example a leader with a relatively high IQ attempting to influence a group whose members have average IQs may be unable to understand why the members don’t comprehend the problem.
What does the Path-Goal leadership model suggest?
It is necessary for a leader to influence the followers perception of works goals, self-development, and paths to goal attainment .
Name one way to operate a coaching leadership role:
Observe the details
Develop the person’s strengths
Work to improve people, not change them
Require continual improvement
Pace the person (don’t wear them out)
Believe that you can be the bes
What is the difference between a job centered leader and an employee centered leader?
Job centered focuses on completing the task, employee centered focuses on making employees do the work and satisfying employee's needs
What are the four leadership styles of the Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership Theory?
Telling
Selling
Participating
Delegating
What is servant leadership?
The needs of others will be placed ahead of their own, with the expectation of nothing in return.