Focus on Followership
Those toward whom leadership is directed.
What is a follower?
What is Intellectual Stimulation?
A person who engages in leadership.
What is a leader?
A leadership theory that focuses on whether leadership is genuine.
What is Authentic Leadership?
The three key elements of the leadership process.
What are leader, follower, and context?
An approach to followership that focuses on how followers affect leaders and organizational outcomes.
What is Reversing the Lens?
A leader's task-related behaviors such as organizing work activities and defining role responsibilities.
What is initiating structure?
(will also accept directive leadership)
A process whereby a person influences others to achieve a common goal.
What is leadership?
A contingency theory of leadership that is based on the expectancy theory of motivation.
What is Path-Goal Theory?
What is the trait approach to leadership?
The process whereby people accept the influence of others to accomplish a common goal.
What is followership?
A servant-leader behavior in which the leader allows followers the freedom to be independent, make decisions on their own, and be self-sufficient.
What is empowering?
Technical, human, and conceptual skills.
What are the skills in Katz's three-skills approach to leadership?
A leadership theory with an outcome of performance beyond expectations.
What is Transformational Leadership?
Legitimate, reward, coercive, and information.
What are the types of Position Power?
Researcher who believed that followers should be courageous and practice intelligent disobedience.
Who is Ira Chaleff?
A two-party bi-directional relationship described in Leader-Member-Exchange theory.
What is a dyad?
Destructive leader, susceptible follower, and conducive environment.
What are the elements of the Toxic Triangle?
A theory of gender and leadership suggesting that the qualities associated with leadership are incompatible with stereotypical characteristics of women.
What is Role Congruity Theory?
An approach to leadership which assumes that leadership skills can be learned and developed.
What is the skills approach to leadership?
Active-engaged; independent-assertive; submissive-compliant; and supportive-conforming.
What are the major followership types proposed by various researchers that are summarized in the textbook?
A beneficial way to address diversity in which we accept others without requiring them to give up parts of themselves to belong.
What is inclusion?
An approach to leadership which assumes that different situations require different leadership styles.
What is the Situational Approach to leadership?
(will also accept contingency approach or Path-Goal Theory as a specific example of a situational approach)
A leadership theory that focuses on encouraging followers to face and deal with problems, challenges, and changes.
What is Adaptive Leadership?
A fear of powerlessness to challenge a bad leader; the need to feel chosen or special; the need for reassuring authority figures; the need for security and certainty; the need for membership in human community; or a fear of ostracism, isolation, and social death
What are psychological factors that cause followers to be susceptible to destructive leaders?