Team Leadership
Within this approach, the main function of a leader is to help the team accomplish goals via monitoring, diagnosing, and taking action when and where it is appropriate.
What is team leadership?
Originating from the writings of Greenleaf (1970), this leadership style emphasizes attentiveness to the needs and concerns of followers, empathy, and nurturing behaviors.
What is servant leadership?
The premise of this leadership theory is that different situations demand different kinds of leaership, requiring leaders to adapt their stye to the demands of different situations.
What is situational leadership?
This leadership style emphasizes a person's ability to develop leadership potential as opposed to being born with leadership potential.
What is a skills approach?
This element of leadership is concerned with what leaders do and who leaders are.
What are ethics?
These three factors influence the effectiveness of teams in a virtual setting.
What is technology, managing distance, and team structure?
In addition to servant leadership, these two leadership styles are viewed as a "moral" form of leadership with emphasis on ethical practices that serve the greater good of an organization.
What is authentic and ethical leadership?
This situational leadership style is a high directive, low supportive style in which the leader focuses on goal achievement and spends less time using supportive behaviors.
What is directing?
Katz (1955) said that effective adminstration centers on development of these three skills areas
What are technical, human, and conceptual?
This 6 stage classification system is commonly referenced in ethics discussions.
What are Kohlberg's stages of moral development?
In order for teams to be successful, organizational culture must support this key element.
What is member involvement?
There are 10 characteristics associated with servant leadership. Name 4.
This situational leadership approach requires leaders to take a high supportive, low directive style in which the leader uses supportive behaviors to bring out followers' skills to accomplish a goal.
What is supporting?
Problem solving skills are a leader's creative ability to solve new, unusual, ill-defined organizational problems. These skills include which 4 competencies as defined by Mumford et al. (2000)?
What is defining the problem, gathering information, formulating new understanding, and generating a plan to solve?
These theories related to the study of leadership ethics try to answer questions about right and wrong by focusing on whether or not a person's conduct will produce desireable outcomes.
What are teleological theories?
These critical elements of team effectiveness impact the quality and outcomes of a team's work.
Based on Liden et al.'s (2008) model of servant leadership, what are three antecedent conditions that impact servant leader behaviors?
What are context/culture, leader attributes, and follower receptivity?
This low supportive, low directive style of situational leadership is one in which leaders offer less input and takes on a facilitator role, letting the group take the lead of planning, details, and goal setting.
What is delegating?
Mumford et al. (2000) state that a leader's social judgment skills delineate into these four areas of competency.
What are perspective taking, social perceptiveness, behavioral flexibility, and social performance?
From this ethical perspective, a leader is morally correct when they select an action that maximizes social benefits while minimizing social costs.
What is utilitarianism?
This element of a team leadership model is often criticized because it requires all team members to posess leadership skills
What are fluid leadership roles?
This characteristic is central to servant leadership, making it unique from other prominent leadership theories and models.
What is altruism/care for others?
In this high directive, high supportive approach, leaders focus communication on both achieving goals and meeting followers' socioemotional needs, and requires the leader to make the final decision on the "what" and "how" of goal accomplishment.
What is coaching?
This element of a skills approach to leadership impacts how leaders engage in problem solving, think about complex issues, and allows the use of prior indicents to plan for change.
What is knowledge?
Destructive leaders, susceptible followers, and conducive environments create this ethical phenomenon, coined by Kaiser in 2007.
What is a toxic triangle?