Chapter 14 Leadership: Trait, Behavioral, and Contingency Approaches – Flashcards

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Five Approaches to Leadership
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-Trait -Behavioral -Contingency -Full-Range -Four Additional
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Trait approaches to Leadership
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-attempt to identify distinctive characteristics that account for the effectiveness of leaders
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Women have Traits that Make them Better Leaders
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-studies show women executives score higher than males on a variety of measures-- from producing high quality work to goal- setting to mentoring employees
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Behavioral Leadership
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-approaches attempt to determine the distinctive styles used by effective leaders
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Contingency Leadership Model
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-determines if a leader's style is task oriented or relationship-oriented and if that style is effective for the situation at hand
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Contingency Approaches
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-Fielder's Contingency Leadership -Path-Goal Leadership Model (House) -The Situational Leadership Theory (Hersey & Blanchard)
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Fiedler's Contingency Leadership Model
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-Two Leadership Orientations: - Task-Oriented - Relationship-Oriented - Three Dimensions of Situational Control - Leader-Member Relations - Task Structure - Position Power - Determined with the Least-Preferred Co-Worker (LPC) Scale
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Fiedler's Contingency Leadership Model: Three Dimensions of Situational Control
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Three Dimensions of Situational Control -Leader-Member Relations: Do my subordinates accept me as a leader? (Good Relations to Poor Relations) -Tast Structure: Do my subordinates perform unambiguous, easily understood tasks? (High Structure to Low Structure) -Position Power: Do I have power to reward and punish? (Strong Power to Weak Power)
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Contingency: Situational Leadership Theory
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-The situational leadership theory argues that the optimal combination depends upon employees' readiness (the degree to which employees have the ability and willingness to accomplish their specific tasks)
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Situational Leadership
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This approach has been incorporated into leadership programs in about 400 out of the 500 fortune 500 firms
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