Leadership
A social process in which an individual or a group influences behavior toward a shared goal.
What is Hoy & Miskel's definition of leadership?
Stress tolerance, self-confidence, emotional maturity, integrity, and extroversion
What are personality traits associated with leader effectiveness?
Initiating structure and consideration
What are the two basic dimensions of leader behavior measured in the LBDQ; or, what are the two basic dimensions of leadership.
The idea that in one set of circumstances, one type of leader is effective; under another set of circumstances, a different type of leader is effective.
What is the contingency approach/model of leadership?
Recognition of the importance of the whole rather than a focus on parts.
What is systems thinking?
Rational, social, and emotional
What are the three bases of leadership?
This focus underemphasizes the personal nature of leadership.
What is the situational view of leadership?
Task-oriented behaviors, relations-oriented behaviors, and change-oriented behaviors
What are Yukl's three categories of leader behavior?
These do not replace leader behaviors but are situational factors that prevent a leader from acting in a particular way or that nullify the effects of the leader's actions.
What is a neutralizer?
Organizational performance is determined by these four sets of internal key elements.
What are structure, the individual, culture and climate, and power and politics?
Laissez-Faire, transactional, and transformational
What are three types of leadership?
The conception that key factors in determining leadership are inherited.
What is the trait approach of leadership?
Personal, individual member satisfaction, and organizational goal attainment
What are three types of effectiveness outcomes?
This model embraces leadership by teams and groups.
What is distributed leadership?
These systems must adapt to changing environmental conditions to be effective and to survive.
What are open systems?
The main premise of this theory is that leadership and followership emerged during the course of human evolution.
What is evolutionary leadership theory?
Capacity, achievement, responsibility, participation, and status
What are Stogdill's five categories of personal factors of leaders?
Relations, task, dynamic, and delegated
What are the four styles of leadership?
This theorist sought to establish the idea that leadership effectiveness is contingent upon matching the appropriate leadership style with the situation.
Who is Fiedler?
This model of decision-making is best for complex decisions.
What is mixed-scanning?
The dark triad
What is a set of personality traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) that are often found at the top of the power pyramid?
Technical, interpersonal, and conceptual
What are the three skills required of effective leaders?
Task-oriented
What is the category of behaviors that should be most frequently used when an environment is stable?
Effective instructional leadership is contingent upon this.
What is the school's academic press for achievement?
In this structure employees are expected to adhere to rules and regulations and to subordinate themselves to the hierarchy.
What is bureaucracy?