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HESI / NCLEX Leadership and
Management Exam Study Guide
Autocratic Leadership - ✔️✔️Centralized decision-making style with the leader making
decisions and using power to command and control others
Bureaucratic Organization - ✔️✔️Hierarchy with clear superior-subordinate
communication and relationships, based on positional authority, in which orders from
the top are transmitted down through the organization via a clear chain of command
Consideration - ✔️✔️Activities that focus on the employee and emphasize relating and
getting along with people
Contingency Theory - ✔️✔️Style that acknowledges that other factors in the environment
influence outcomes as much as leadership style and that leader effectiveness is
contingent upon or depends upon something other than the leader's behavior
Democratic Leadership - ✔️✔️Style in which participation is encouraged and authority is
delegated to others
Emotional Intelligence - ✔️✔️Component of leadership and refers to the capacity for
recognizing your own feelings and those of others, for motivating yourself, and for
managing emotions well in yourself and in your relationships.
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Employee-Centered Leadership - ✔️✔️Style with a focus on the human needs of
subordinates
Formal Leadership - ✔️✔️When a person is in a position of authority or in a sanctioned
role within an organization that connotes influence
Hawthorne effect - ✔️✔️Term coined to reflect the findings of a research study that
demonstrated that change in employee behavior occurs as a result of being observed
informal leader - ✔️✔️Individual who demonstrates leadership outside the scope of a
formal leadership role or as a member of a group rather than as the head or leader of
the group
initiating structure - ✔️✔️style that involves an emphasis on the work to be done a focus
on the task and production
job-centered leaders - ✔️✔️Style that focuses on schedules, cost, and efficiency with less
attention to developing work groups and high-performance groups
knowledge workers - ✔️✔️health care professionals who are well educated and
technologically savvy and see themselves as owning their intellectual capital
laissez-faire leadership - ✔️✔️Passive and permissive style in which the leader defers
decision making
leader-member relations - ✔️✔️Feelings and attitudes of followers regarding acceptance,
trust, and credibility of the leader
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leadership - ✔️✔️Process of influence whereby the leader influences other toward goal
achievement
maintenance or hygiene factors - ✔️✔️Elements such as salary, job security, working
conditions, status, quality of supervision, and relationships with others that prevent job
dissatisfaction
management - ✔️✔️Process of coordinating actions and allocating resources to achieve
organizational goals
management process - ✔️✔️Function of planning, organizing, coordinating, and
controlling
motivation - ✔️✔️Whatever influences our choices and creates direction, intensity, and
persistence in our behavior
motivation factors - ✔️✔️Elements such as achievement, recognition, responsibility,
advancement, and the opportunity for development that contribute to job satisfaction
position power - ✔️✔️Degree of formal authority and influence associated with the
leaders
substitutes for leadership - ✔️✔️Variable that may influence or have an effect on
followers to the same extent as the leader's behavior
task structure - ✔️✔️Involves the degree that work is defined, with specific procedures,
explicit directions and goals
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taxonomy - ✔️✔️System that orders principles into a grouping or classification
Theory X - ✔️✔️View that in bureaucratic organizations, employees prefer security,
direction, and minimal responsibility; coercion, threats, or punishment are necessary
because people do not like the work to be done
Theory Y - ✔️✔️View that in the context of the right conditions, people enjoy their work,
they can show self-control and discipline, are able to contribute creatively and are
motivated by ties to the group, the organization, and the work itself; belief that people
are intrinsically motivated by their work
Theory Z - ✔️✔️View of collective decision making and a focus on long term employment
that involves less direct supervision
transactional leader - ✔️✔️traditional manager concerned with day-to-day operations
transformational leader - ✔️✔️Leader who is committed to a vision that empowers others
Hawthorne effect - ✔️✔️phenomena of how being observed or studied results in a
change in behavior
NEGLIGENT ACTS - ✔️✔️*Medication errors that result in injury to the client
*IV administration errors: incorrect flow rates; failure to monitor a flow rate that results in
injury
*Falls that occur as a result of failure to provide safety
*Failure to check equipment for proper functioning
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