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What is a key assumption of the leadership traits approach?
What is a key assumption of the leadership traits approach?
- Leadership styles can be learned.
- Situational factors determine leadership effectiveness.
- Leaders and non-leaders have similar traits.
- Leaders possess a unique set of traits. (correct)
Which leadership style is characterized by exchanging rewards for performance?
Which leadership style is characterized by exchanging rewards for performance?
- Transformational leadership
- Servant leadership
- Contingency leadership
- Transactional leadership (correct)
What does Fiedler's Contingency Theory primarily assess?
What does Fiedler's Contingency Theory primarily assess?
- Task vs. relationship-oriented leader style (correct)
- Servant leadership qualities
- The effectiveness of transformational leadership
- Leader adaptability in various situations
In the leadership/managerial grid by Blake & Mouton, which of the following dimensions is crucial for evaluating a leader's style?
In the leadership/managerial grid by Blake & Mouton, which of the following dimensions is crucial for evaluating a leader's style?
Which of the following concepts best describes leaders who ensure that workers have everything needed to achieve their goals?
Which of the following concepts best describes leaders who ensure that workers have everything needed to achieve their goals?
Flashcards
Leadership Traits Approach
Leadership Traits Approach
A leadership approach that focuses on identifying specific characteristics that distinguish leaders from non-leaders. This theory assumes that effective leaders possess certain inherent traits, such as intelligence, charisma, and confidence.
Leadership Behaviors Approach
Leadership Behaviors Approach
This approach examines specific behaviors that leaders exhibit, rather than focusing solely on their personality traits. It explores what leaders do, such as setting goals, delegating tasks, or giving feedback.
Autocratic Leadership
Autocratic Leadership
A leadership style that emphasizes directive and controlling behavior. The leader makes decisions unilaterally and provides little input to subordinates.
Democratic Leadership
Democratic Leadership
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Ohio State University Leadership Model
Ohio State University Leadership Model
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Study Notes
Leadership Styles and Theories
- Leadership Traits Approach: Assumes leaders possess a set of inherent traits differentiating them from non-leaders.
- Leadership Behaviors Approach: Examines how leaders behave, contrasted by democratic and autocratic leadership styles.
- Democratic-Autocratic Scale: Measures leadership styles ranging from authoritarian to participative.
- Lewin, Lippitt, White: Researchers associated with this scale.
- Tannenbaum & Schmidt: Notable contributors.
- Task orientation-relationship orientation: Categorization of task-focused versus people-focused leadership styles.
- Ohio State University model: Another model examining leadership behaviors.
- Concern for people – concern for production: Measures leadership style emphasizing either people's needs or productivity.
- Blake & Mouton: Managerial Grid: Another framework for leadership styles, relating concern for people with concern for production (e.g., Country Club, Team, Impoverished styles).
- Democratic-Autocratic Scale: Measures leadership styles ranging from authoritarian to participative.
Contingency/Situational Approaches
- Path-Goal Theory: Leader behavior impacts subordinates' motivation to achieve goals. Contingencies include environmental factors (task, authority, work group) and subordinate factors(locus of control, experience, perceived ability).
- Contingency Theory (Fiedler): Leadership effectiveness depends on the situation's favourableness, determined by leader-member relations, task structure, and leader position power. Leader style is either task-oriented or relationship-oriented.
- LPC (Least Preferred Co-worker) Scale: Used to measure a leader's preferred style.
Other Leadership Perspectives
- Substitutes for Leadership: Factors that reduce the need for a leader's intervention.
- Servant Leadership: A style emphasizes serving the needs of followers and empowering them.
- Transactional Leadership: Focuses on exchanging rewards for performance.
- Transformational Leadership: Stimulates, shifts and utilizes values, beliefs and needs of followers to achieve tasks, and strategic in thinking.
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