LDR 201S - Midterm Exam Questions & Answers
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A process whereby an individual influences a group
Leadership
of individuals to achieve common goals
-Defacto leadership that comes with the job title
-Leadership based on occupying a position within
Assigned Leadership an organization
-Team leaders, plant managers, departments heads,
directors
-A leadership role that emerges organically based
on how others see you
-An individual perceived by others as the most
influential member of a group or organization
regardless of the individual's title
Emergent Leadership
1. Emerges over time through communication
behaviors
2. Affected by personality and gender
3. Social identity
, 1. Leaders are exceptional men with innate qualities
that make them destined to lead
2. Leaders are born to lead (not made)
Great Man Theory (pre-
3. Leadership is "the ability to impress the will of the
1900 to 1929)
leader on those led, and induce obedience, respect,
loyalty, and cooperation
4. Leadership = control, domination, and
concentration of power
1. Domination out, influence in
Trait Theory (1930s) 2. Certain gifted people are born with the right traits
that make others want to follow them. Those people
become leaders
1. Coercion out, persuasion in
2. Leadership is an act or behavior undertaken by a
leader while directing group activities
a. These behaviors persuade followers to comply
Group Theory (1940-1950)
without the need for manipulation and threat
3. Shared goals becomes a popular theme with
group effectiveness becoming a benchmark for
judging leader success
, 1. Leadership is "acts by persons which influence
other persons in a shared direction"
2. The general consensus is that leadership is a
behavior that influences people toward shared
goals
Behavioral Theory (1960s)
3. Focus is on what leaders do (I.e., their leadership
style), not the qualities (or traits) they naturally
possess
4. To wit: now, we believe that leaders are made, not
born
1. Scholars try to reconcile different parts of earlier
theories as they look at how organizations manage
employees and accomplish goals
2. Leadership is "the reciprocal process of
mobilizing by persons with certain motives and
values, various economic, political, and other
resources, in a context of competition and conflict,
in order to realize goals independently or mutually
Contingency held by both leaders and followers
Theory/Situational Theory
(1970s) 3. One of the earliest situational theories to view
leadership as contextual and specific to the work
situation at hand. It focuses on how environmental
variables affect leadership and which styles best fit
specific circumstances
a. Not every person is a leader in every situation
4. Situational leadership is later refined
a. A leader must be able to adapt his or her specific
style to different situations
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Terms in this set (124)
A process whereby an individual influences a group
Leadership
of individuals to achieve common goals
-Defacto leadership that comes with the job title
-Leadership based on occupying a position within
Assigned Leadership an organization
-Team leaders, plant managers, departments heads,
directors
-A leadership role that emerges organically based
on how others see you
-An individual perceived by others as the most
influential member of a group or organization
regardless of the individual's title
Emergent Leadership
1. Emerges over time through communication
behaviors
2. Affected by personality and gender
3. Social identity
, 1. Leaders are exceptional men with innate qualities
that make them destined to lead
2. Leaders are born to lead (not made)
Great Man Theory (pre-
3. Leadership is "the ability to impress the will of the
1900 to 1929)
leader on those led, and induce obedience, respect,
loyalty, and cooperation
4. Leadership = control, domination, and
concentration of power
1. Domination out, influence in
Trait Theory (1930s) 2. Certain gifted people are born with the right traits
that make others want to follow them. Those people
become leaders
1. Coercion out, persuasion in
2. Leadership is an act or behavior undertaken by a
leader while directing group activities
a. These behaviors persuade followers to comply
Group Theory (1940-1950)
without the need for manipulation and threat
3. Shared goals becomes a popular theme with
group effectiveness becoming a benchmark for
judging leader success
, 1. Leadership is "acts by persons which influence
other persons in a shared direction"
2. The general consensus is that leadership is a
behavior that influences people toward shared
goals
Behavioral Theory (1960s)
3. Focus is on what leaders do (I.e., their leadership
style), not the qualities (or traits) they naturally
possess
4. To wit: now, we believe that leaders are made, not
born
1. Scholars try to reconcile different parts of earlier
theories as they look at how organizations manage
employees and accomplish goals
2. Leadership is "the reciprocal process of
mobilizing by persons with certain motives and
values, various economic, political, and other
resources, in a context of competition and conflict,
in order to realize goals independently or mutually
Contingency held by both leaders and followers
Theory/Situational Theory
(1970s) 3. One of the earliest situational theories to view
leadership as contextual and specific to the work
situation at hand. It focuses on how environmental
variables affect leadership and which styles best fit
specific circumstances
a. Not every person is a leader in every situation
4. Situational leadership is later refined
a. A leader must be able to adapt his or her specific
style to different situations
