leadership - Answer-process of influencing others to understand
Direct leadership - Answer-attempts to influence followers when INTERACTING with them or using communication media to send a message
example- sending memos, emails, or presenting a speech
Indirect leadership - Answer-influence p...
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leadership - Answer-process of influencing others to understand
Direct leadership - Answer-attempts to influence followers when INTERACTING with
them or using communication media to send a message
example- sending memos, emails, or presenting a speech
Indirect leadership - Answer-influence people at lower levels in an organization who do
not interact directly with leader
Leadership Vs. Managing - Answer-mutually exclusive types of people --> different roles
or process
Leading - Answer-influence relationship
Value: flexibility, innovation, and adaptation: care about people, long-term perspective
Managing - Answer-Authority relationship
Value: stability, order and efficiency, impersonal, short term results
Integrative approach - Answer-BOTH leading and managing
Subordinate - Answer-"staff" someones primary work activities are directed and
evaluated by a leader
Follower - Answer-a person who acknowledges the focal leader as the primary source
of guidance about the work, regardless how much formal authority the leader actually
had. (can be an outsider)
Dyadic level - Answer-transaction between 2 people, the leader and another individual
Group level - Answer-people working together
Influence of leaders on a collective process
-determines the teams performance
-determinants of groups effectiveness by a leaders influence
organizational level - Answer-process that occurs at a large "open system" groups that
are then put into subsystems
Leader centered - Answer-(strongest) identifies traits, skills, or behaviors that contribute
to leaders effectiveness
, Descriptive - Answer-explains leadership processes, describes typical activities of
leaders and explains why certain behaviors occur
Prescriptive - Answer-specify what leaders must do to become effective
Universal theory - Answer-applies to all types of situations
Contingency theory - Answer-applies to some situations but not others
Trait approach - Answer-emphasizes attributes of leaders such as personality, motives,
values and skills
Behavior approach - Answer-pays closer attention to what mangers actually do on the
job
Power-influence approach - Answer-examines influence processes between leaders
and other people. seeks to explain leadership effectiveness by amount and type of
power processed by leader. Determines how leaders influence the attitude and behavior
of followers
Situational approach - Answer-the importance of the contextual factors
-processes same or unique across different types of organizations
- perceptions, attitudes, behavior patterns
Integrative approach - Answer-involves more that 1 type of leadership variable
- two or more types of the leadership approaches
How managers make decisions: - Answer-1. Emotion & Intuition (Irrational)-
2. Disorderly processes (Confusion)
3. Incomplete or slanted information
4. Incomplete analyses
5. Reliance on past solutions
6. Difficulty reaching agreement
Managerial role conflicts - Answer-role sender pressure- exert pressure on the manager
to confirm with their beliefs about the proper way to believe
Stewart's Managerial Model: Core components - Answer-1. Demands-required duties,
activities and responsibilities of manager
2. Constraints- characteristics of the organization and external environment, limiting
what the manager can do
3. Choices- activities the manager may do by is not required
Stewart's Managerial Model: Situational Determinants - Answer-1. Pattern of
relationship- demands that influence how managers time is spent and how much skill is
needed to fulfill role requirements
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