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Leadership. Review of Key Terms. Great leaders – born or made?. Approaches to personality Behavioural vs. Trait. Edwin Locke’s Personal Traits of Successful Leaders. Drive Self-confidence Creativity Cognitive Ability Business Knowledge Motivation Flexibility Honesty and Integrity.
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Leadership Review of Key Terms
Great leaders – born or made? • Approaches to personality • Behavioural vs. Trait
Edwin Locke’s Personal Traits of Successful Leaders • Drive • Self-confidence • Creativity • Cognitive Ability • Business Knowledge • Motivation • Flexibility • Honesty and Integrity
Sources of Power • Positional • Reward/coercive/legitimate • Personal • Expert/referent
Leadership Styles • Democratic • Autocratic • Laissez-faire
Some key terms • Authority decision: made by leader and then communicated to the group • Charismatic leader: inspires followers in extraordinary ways • Consultative decision: decision made by a leader after receiveing information, or opinions from group • Emotional intelligence: understanding ourselves and others emotional feelings using cues
Emotional Intelligence • Key components • Self-awareness • Self-regulation • Motivation • Empathy • Social skill
More key terms • Group decision: made with full participation of all group members • Groupthink: tendency for highly cohesive teams to lose their evaluative capabilities • Integrity: honest, credibility and consistency with actions
More key terms • Leadership: inspiring others to work hard to accomplish important tasks • Leadership style: recurring behaviour patterns of a leader
More key terms • Transactional leadership: directs through tasks, rewards and structures • Transformational leadership: people to do more than original expected in support of large scale change or innovation • Visionary leadership: brings to the situation a clear sense of the future
Conflict Resolution • Techniques • Avoidance • Accommodation • Competition • Compromise • Collaboration