Leadership Styles and Approaches: Definitions and Differences, Quizzes of Human Resource Management

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Leadership

The interpersonal use of power and influence to motivate others to achieve goals that represent the values of the leader TERM 2

Trait approach

DEFINITION 2 Leaders are born, not made. They have characteristics such as: extraverted confident intelligent charismatic TERM 3

Behavioral approach

DEFINITION 3 What makes a leader is not his/her traits but how he/she behavesTwo main views: Day-to-day consideration and initiating structure leader behaviors Transactional/transformational leader behaviors TERM 4

Consideration

DEFINITION 4 Person focused membership (mixing with employees) Integration (reducing conflict, including everyone) communication recognition representation TERM 5

Initiating structure

DEFINITION 5 Task-focused initiation (starting new tasks) organization (structuring and coordinating tasks) production (goal-setting, providing incentives)

Transactional leadership

leader behaviors range from laissez-faire to transformational TERM 7

Laissez-faire leadership

DEFINITION 7 hands-off avoidance of responsibility power and influence underutilized highest correlation wth dissatisfaction with the leader TERM 8

Passive management by exception

DEFINITION 8 leads by taking corrective action after mistakes have happened "if it isn't broke, don't fix it" TERM 9

Active management by exception

DEFINITION 9 leads by taking corrective action before mistakes happen "something doesn't seem right here" TERM 10

Contingent reward leadership

DEFINITION 10 more active, exchange of rewards for adequate performance establishes goals and expectations "do this task, and you'll get a reward" Highest correlation with follower job satisfaction

Transformational leadership

inspiring followers to strive toward higher goals or a vision that transcends their immediate self-interests highest correlation with satisfaction with the leader and leader effectiveness TERM 12

Four dimensions of transformational

leadership

DEFINITION 12 idealized influence/charisma: serving as a charismatic role model to followers inspirational motivation: articulation of inspiring vision to followers intellectual stimulation: stimulating creativity by questioning and challenging individualized consideration: attending to TERM 13

Leader decision making styles

DEFINITION 13 Delegate: leader passes responsibility for the decision making to one or more subordinates Facilitative: joint effort between leaders and subordinates, shared decision Consultative: leader asks for advice and opinions from his subordinates, and makes the decision himself Autocratic: leader takes sole responsibility for the decision