Shared Flashcard Set

Details

MGMT 300 CHAPT 14
Leadership: Styles and Behaviors
21
Management
Undergraduate 3
06/06/2010

Additional Management Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Leaders vs. Management?
Definition
Leaders: Influence, Followers, and Goals/Vision
Managment: Deals with resources.....
Term
Leadership
Definition
the use of power and influence to direct the activities of followers toward goal achievement.
Term
Leader effectiveness
Definition
degree to which leader's actions result in goal achievement, continued commitment, and trust/respect at the dyadic level.
Term
What makes leaders effective?
Definition
-Decision making
-Day to day activities
-Things that fall outside typical duties
Term
What are 5 Leadership Decision-Making Styles?
Definition
1)Autocratic Style- Leader makes the decision alone without asking for the opinions or suggestion of employees
2)Consultative Style- Asking for employee opinion/suggestions but leader makes the decision on his/her own.
3) Democratic/Facilitative Style- equal say on leaders and followers part--> consensus
4) Delegative Style: Followers have say after leader has formulated the problem. Leader plays no role in the deliberations unless asked.
5) Laissez-faire- Hands off; no articulation to the problem and employees are left muddled in the water (not a good form)
Term
Vroom and Yetton Leadership Theory
Definition
When managers follow the model, 68% of decisions were considered effective, 22% when not followed.
Term
Difference between a leader and a follower?
Definition
Decision-making
Term
Transformational Leadership
Definition
Inspiring followers to commit to a shared vision that provides meaning to the work while helping followers develop their own potential and view problems from new perspectives. (Motivational approach)
Term
Transactional Leadership
Definition
Leader rewards or disciplines the follower depending on the adequacy of the follower's performance. (carrot and stick approach)
Term
Charisma Leadership
Definition
Term
Charisma Leadership
Definition
(Idealized Influence) Behaving in ways to earn the admiration, trust, and respect of followers, causing followers to identify and emulate the leader.
Term
Dyadic theory
Definition
What is your relationship with each of these people?
Term
Leader-member exhange theory
Definition
Describes how leader-member relationships develop over time on a dyadic basis.

In-group vs. Out-group
People in In-groups have high performance, high satisfaction, and low turnover.
Term
Initiating Structure
Definition
Extent to which the leader defines and structures the roles of employees in pursuit of goal attainment. (Task oriented)
Term
Consideration
Definition
Extent to which leaders create job relationships characterized by mutual trust, respect, and consideration of employees feelings
(Relations-oriented)
Term
Leadership styles (most effective---> to least)
Definition
1)Transformational
2)Transactional: Contingent Reward
3)Transactional: Active managment by exception (monitors mistakes)
4)Transactional: Passive Management by exception (waits for mistakes)
5)Laissez-Faire
Term
Correlations of Transformational Leadership?
Definition
Transformational Leadership:
-Moderate Positive effect on Job Performance
-Strong positive effect on Organizational Commitment
Term
Employee theft excercise
Definition
Two big takeaways:
1)Understand WHY: when doing intervention, dont look at just the symptoms, but also the causes
-Theory X (ppl. are lazy and need to be coerced) vs. Theory Y (ppl. want responsibilities)
Term
Kaizen Excercise
Definition
Defination: Continuous improvement (aided by technology, processes, learning, and motivation)
-What is a process? Series of steps to achive a task.
-Experience helps
-Feedback is more powerful if completed with a goal
-Motivation: if you're going to use spirited competition to motivate work teams, it must be fair/equal playing fields
-Communication: must signal when one party is done and the other must go.
-Number of ppl. to assign to tasks: need an optimal number
Term
Kaizen Exercise (continued..)
Definition
Recovery methods:
1)Psychotic Adaptation-go crazy
2)Immature-passive aggression, projection, fantasy, acting out
3)Neurotic- (normal people) Dissosiation, repression, intellectualizing, distancing
4)Mature- Humor, anticipation (plan ahead), altruism
Term
MacGregor Case
Definition
Uses Referent Leadership (ppl. wanted his respect)
-Used consultative decision-making
-He has Type B personality (ability to trust in his ppl's ability)
-managed his own stress/delegating
-Motivation: teaming and Wednesday feedback where he assessed quotas
* MacGregor's method is a combination of satisficing (when decision makers accept the first acceptable alternative) and Criterion-related decison making.
Supporting users have an ad free experience!