POWER
A common tactic used for this type of power is for an executive to demote a subordinate manager who does not comply with the executive’s plans for change. This type of power, when used inappropriately, can cause resentment and rebellion in a workforce
What is Coercive Power?
A leader who rises to the top of a team to lead the team without any formal title. They typically do not have a formal leadership position, but employees respond to their direction and respect them as a leader. Therefore, they are able to influence others.
What is an Emergent Leader?
A person’s confidence in another individual’s intentions and motives and in the sincerity of that individual’s word.
What is trust?
The influence agent (leader / manager) has changed the person's behavior but not their attitude.
What is compliance?
The ability to imagine different and better conditions and the ways to achieve them.
What is vision?
Power based on an individual's characteristics, competencies, skills, and other personal attributes. It is power that is independent of the organization and is about the personality and knowledge of the individual.
What is Personal Power?
Leading by placing the follower's or employee's needs first and the leader's needs second.
What is a Servant Leader?
A relatively stable personality trait characterized by a sense of personal superiority, a desire for power, and a sense of self-importance.
What is narcissism?
The manager tells the employees of an organization that if they don't work for a minimum of three extra hours every week, they will not be considered for promotions.
What is deliberate Machiavellianism?
Separating right from wrong.
What is ethics?
Power based on a hierarchical position to exert certain rights of authority and decision making over others. It stems from the role itself.
People at the highest levels in the organization would have more of this type of power than the people below them in the hierarchy. An example of this type of power is the US President.
What is Legitimate Power?
A leadership type that invokes beneficial change within the organization as well as within individual employees.
What is a Transformational Leader?
A special quality of leaders whose purposes, powers, and extraordinary determination differentiate them from others.
What is charism? (charisma)
Followers who are completely detached and passively support the status quo by not taking action to bring about changes.
The perspective that the leader's behavior is profoundly influenced by the situation.
What is contingency leadership?
The potential or ability to influence decisions and control resources. An entry-level employee working with the CEO would have less of it; the CEO would have more.
What is Power?
A person in charge who retains most of the authority.
What is an Autocratic Leader?
Loyalty to rational principles, thereby practicing what one preaches, regardless of emotional or social pressure. This characteristic is also a contributor to prestige power because it enhances a leader’s reputation.
What is integrity?
The manager says, "I realize I'm not the brightest new manager in the company, so I really need your help."
What is debasement?
Being able to accept and profit from vague, uncertain, or inconsistent information or situations.
What is tolerating ambiguity ability?
Leaders using this type of power will give individual employees the ability to make decisions about their jobs and responsibility for the outcomes.
Transformational leaders will also frequently use this type of power to help develop and pass responsibilities to group members.
What is Empowerment?
A person in charge who confers final authority on the group.
What is a Democratic Leader?
The ability to understand the long-range implications of actions and policies.
What is farsightedness?
The terms isolates, activists, and diehards relate to the idea that followers differ in terms of level of _______.
What is engagement with the leader and the group?
A bookkeeper who tells a journalist about fraudulent accounting in the company.
What is a whistleblower?