Early Approaches to Leadership

Transactional Leadership

Charisma is a form of interpersonal attraction that inspires support and acceptance, and charismatic leadership is a type of influence based on the leader's personal charisma.

Identifying the essential traits that distinguished leaders, such as intelligence, dominance, self-confidence, energy, activity, and knowledge about the job.

<p>The crucial elements of charismatic leadership are envisioning the future, energizing others, and enabling others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The behaviors of effective leaders differed from those of less effective leaders, and the behaviors of effective leaders would be the same across all situations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The main difference is that traditional leadership is directive, whereas leaders as coaches are more mentoring and supportive.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How tasks should be performed in order to meet certain goals and achieve certain performance standards.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cross-cultural leadership is influenced by an individual's native culture, which affects their approach to leadership when functioning in another culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Satisfaction, motivation, and well-being of employees.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ethical leadership is characterized by leader behaviors that reflect high ethical standards, and maintaining and promoting high ethical standards within the organization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Appropriate leader behavior varies from one situation to another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Virtual leadership is leadership in settings where leaders and followers interact electronically rather than in face-to-face settings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The set of abilities that allows a leader to recognize the need for change, to create a vision to guide that change, and to execute the change effectively.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Emerging issues in leadership include ethical leadership and virtual leadership, which require leaders to adapt to changing organizational and technological contexts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Task-Focused Leader Behavior and Employee-Focused Leader Behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Trait Approach focuses on identifying essential traits, while the Behavioral Approach focuses on determining what behaviors are employed by leaders.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The six steps involved in the rational decision-making process are: (1) identifying the problem, (2) identifying alternatives, (3) evaluating alternatives, (4) selecting the best alternative, (5) implementing the chosen alternative, and (6) following up and evaluating the effects of the chosen alternative.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The primary goal of the evaluation step is to determine the pros and cons of each alternative and identify the best option.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rational decision making involves a systematic approach to making decisions, whereas behavioral decision making involves making decisions based on intuition, emotions, and personal biases.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The purpose of the implementation step is to put the chosen alternative into action.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Feedback is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the chosen alternative and make adjustments as needed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An example of a behavioral aspect of decision making is intuition, which involves making decisions based on an innate belief or feeling without conscious consideration.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The purpose of identifying alternatives is to generate a range of options for addressing the problem or opportunity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A coalition is an informal alliance of individuals or groups formed to achieve a common goal.</p> Signup and view all the answers