Big Five
What is Extraversion?
The degree to which one is sociable and outgoing
Name at least two things to make your team more effective
Prepare
Be on time
Clarify Certain Point, Acknowledge and build on comments
Listen
Make disagreements about the problem, not the person
What is personality?
Pattern of behavior or thought
Predisposition to act or think a certain way
Part heredity, part by environment
Developed early in life and hard to change
What people do not what people are
What is self-esteem?
How one feels about oneself
High
better performance and job satisfaction
seek out higher prestige
can be excessive
Low
extremely realistic
potential for higher absenteeism
What is self-efficacy?
Task-specific confidence
High
Confidence in abilities fosters high performance
More likely to attempt difficult tasks and persist
Low
Less likely to perform
May procrastinate or avoid tasks
What is Openness to experience?
The degree to which one likes change and to try new things
What are the Four P's?
Purpose: Problem Solving/ Brainstorming Needed
Planning: Announcements, Prepare agenda
Process: Intros, Participation, Summarize key decisions
Perspective: Reflect on good & bad
What are the economic benefits to organizations that see people as a strategic resource?
Reduced turnover
Increased employee performance
Increased firm financial performance
What is Type A?
High need for control
Time urgency, competitiveness, hostility
Poor delegation likes to work alone, jumps into action, sets high goals, hard work, perceives more stress
What is Type B?
They're calm, relaxed, empathetic, assertive, open to social relationships, and have a tendency toward emotional well-being. In general, they're aware of their limitations and aren't hostile.
What is Agreeableness?
The degree to which one is cooperative and avoids conflict
What are the 3 components of team effectiveness?
Performance
Personal Well-Being
Learning
What is Emotional Intelligence?
self-awareness
Being aware of and in touch with your own feelings and emotion
Managing emotions
Being able to manage various emotions and moods by denying or suppressing them
self-motivation
Being able to remain positive and optimistic
Empathy of others
Being able to read others' emotions accurately and putting yourself in their place
Interpersonal skills
Having the skills to build and maintain positive relationships with others
What is self-monitoring?
Read cues from the environment
Change behavior to match situation
Cope in cross-cultural environments
Key factor in leadership effectiveness
What is machiavellianism?
Personality trait which sees a person so focused on their own interests they will manipulate, deceive, and exploit others to achieve their goals.
What is Emotional Stability?
The Degree to which one can handle stress
How can people be a strategic resource?
Internal resources can form a sustained competitive advantage
Benefits: Adds positive value to the firm
Unique or rare
Difficult to copy
Cannot be substituted with another resource by competitors
Define leadership?
The ability of an individual to influence, motivate and enable others (individual and groups) to contribute toward the achievement of personal, group, and organizational goals.
What is LMX (Leader-MemberExchange)?
Special relations develop between a leader and some of the followers
What is the Team Performance Equation?
Actual Productivity = PP + S – T
PP = Potential Productivity
S = Synergy l Creation of total output that is greater than the sum of its parts.
T = Performance Threats & Process Loss
What is Conscientiousness?
The Degree to which one is dependable and reliable
Name at least four practices of successful organizations that put people first...
Employment security
Selective hiring
Design organization with elements of empowered teams and decentralization
Good pay that is contingent on organizational performance
Extensive training and development of employees
Reduce status differences
Establish information sharing
Define Power
the capacity to influence the behavior of others
Great Man Theory?
It’s the personality or characteristics of the leader that matters
"Great man” theories of leadership
e.g., Intelligence, alertness, dependability, masculinity, sociable, self-confidence, dominance
Assumption: Leaders are born
Not successful in predicting leader effectiveness
Describe Behavioral Approach?
It’s the behaviors of the leaders that matters
Task-orientation vs. Relationship-orientation
Behaviors can be measured
Assumption: Leadership can be learned/trained
Blake & Mouton’s Leadership Grid
Also not successful in predicting leader effectiveness – contradictory research findings (e.g., is being high on both dimensions good in all situations?)