A situational characteristic that counteracts the leadership style and prevents the leader from displaying certain behaviors.
What is Neutralizer
100
A theory meaning one thing depends on other things.
What is Contingency
100
Motivation based on fear of losing a job.
What is Fear-Based Motivation
100
Approaches that seek to delineate the characteristics of situations and followers and examine the leadership styles that can be used effectively.
What is Contingency approaches
100
Five general dimensions that describe personality: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience.
What is Big Five Personality Dimensions
200
A model designed to diagnose whether a leader is task-oriented or relationship-oriented and match leader style to the situation.
What is Fiedler’s Contingency Model
200
The degree to which a person has a broad range of interests and is imaginative, creative, and willing to consider new ideas.
What is Openness to Experience
200
The degree to which a person is well-adjusted, calm, and secure.
What is Emotional Stability
200
The collection of attitudes we have about ourselves and includes the element of self-esteem, whether a person generally has positive or negative feelings about himself/herself.
What is Self-Concept
200
The degree to which a person is outgoing, sociable, talkative, and comfortable meeting and talking to new people.
What is Extraversion
300
A contingency approach to leadership in which the leader's responsibility is to increase subordinates' motivation by clarifying the behaviors necessary for task accomplishment and rewards.
What is Path–Goal Theory
300
The process of continuously reevaluating previously learned ways of doing things in the context of evolving information and shifting circumstances.
What is Mindfulness
300
The part of the brain associated in the whole brain model with planning, organizing facts, and careful detailed review.
What is Quadrant B
300
The tendency to see one’s own personal traits in other people.
What is Projection
300
The assumption that people are basically lazy and not motivated to work and that they have a natural tendency to avoid responsibility
What is Theory X
400
Beliefs about the types of behavior that are appropriate for reaching goals.
What is Instrumental Values
400
How people draw conclusions about what caused certain behaviors or events.
What is Attribution Theory
400
Defines whether a person places the primary responsibility for what happens to him or her within him/herself or on outside forces.
What is Locus of Control
400
Theories people hold about specific systems in the world and their expected behavior.
What is Mental Models
400
An approach that considers not only a person’s preference for right-brained versus left-brained thinking, but also conceptual versus experiential thinking; identifies four quadrants of the brain related to different thinking styles.
What is Whole Brain Concept
500
The tendency to assign an individual to a group or broad category (e.g., female, black, elderly or male, white, disabled) and then to attribute widely held generalizations about the group to the individual.
What is Stereotyping
500
The ability to control disruptive or harmful emotions.
What is Self-Management
500
A person’s abilities to perceive, identify, understand, and successfully manage emotions in self and others.
What is Emotional Intelligence
500
How a person perceives, processes, interprets, and uses information.
What is Cognitive Style
500
The discipline of personal growth and learning and of mastering yourself; it embodies personal visions, facing reality, and holding creative tension.