Intro to leadership
This is defined today as "the process by which a person influences a group to achieve a common goal."
What is leadership?
In experiments, the variable you manipulate is the _____ variable.
What is the independent variable (X)?
This approach says that leaders are born, not made.
What is the trait approach?
This approach focuses on what leaders do and how they act.
What is the behavioral/style approach?
Of the three methods we talked about in class-- experiments, survey research, and field research/participant observation-- this is the method Ashley uses in her own research most.
What are experiments?
Leadership is often contrasted or conflated with this, which emphasizes day-to-day problem solving and operating the organization efficiently.
When some third variable Z causes X and Y, making X and Y look like they are related to each other, the X-Y relationship is a _______ relationship.
These are the two general dimensions of leader behaviors supported by an array of prior work.
What are task/structure/production-oriented behaviors and relationship/consideration/employee-oriented behaviors?
This approach focuses on leadership in different situations, suggesting that different situations require different styles.
What is the situational approach?
When forced to put herself on one side of the class or the other-- where one side was introverts and one was extroverts-- Ashley chose this as her "category".
What is an introvert?
The most influential group member, even when they haven't been designated in a formal position, is this type of leader.
What is an emergent leader?
This error attributes others’ negative behaviors or outcomes to their character or traits, while attributing one's own negative behaviors or outcomes to the situation.
What is the fundamental attribution error?
This leadership style involves a low concern for the task and a low concern for the people, as demonstrated by Ron Swanson's inability to care about his job as a government employee and avoid interacting with the people in it?
What is impoverished management?
This leadership style involves a high concern for the people, but a relatively low concern for the task, as demonstrated by Michael Scott's behavior at Chili's.
What is country club leadership/management?
This is the fast-casual restaurant at which Ashley met her husband, when they both worked there 20 years ago.
What is Moe's?
Englmaier and colleagues conducted a study to compare task success among these three experimental groups/conditions.
What is the control group (no leadership advice given), motivating leadership, and coordinating leadership?
These are the two hallmarks of experiments.
This leadership style would be best if you are working with followers who are high in competence and high in commitment, like advanced employees.
What is the delegating style?
This leadership style would be best if you are working with followers who have no idea what they are doing, but are really eager to learn, like new recruits.
What is the directing style?
This is the number of children Ashley has.
What is three?
The scientific study of leadership began during these two critical historical events.
What are the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment?
This is the tendency for extreme performances measured at Time 1 to become more "average" at Time 2.
What is extraversion?
Our preference for tall, deep-voiced leaders can best be explained by this hypothesis based on evolutionary theory.
What is the mismatch hypothesis?
Buried somewhere in the syllabus was a note thanking you for taking the time to thoroughly read it, and telling you to send me a picture of this by the beginning of our next class for a free participation point.
What is a cat?