Leadership in Small Groups

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Leadership in Small Groups

• Chapter 12

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Overview

• Five Leadership Perspectives
• Gender and Leadership

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5 Leadership Perspectives

• Trait approach
• Functional approach
• Situational approach
• Transformational approach
• Emergent approach

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Trait Approach

• Physical traits
• Personality traits

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Personality traits associated with leadership

• self-confidence
• dominance
• enthusiasm
• assertiveness
• responsibility
• creativity

• critical thinking ability
• intelligence
• dependability
• ability to communicate effectively

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5 traits preventing leadership

• Uninformed about the problem
• Non participative
• Extremely rigid in adhering to ideas
• Authoritarian
• Offensive and abusive language use

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Limitations to Trait Theory

• Leadership too complicated
• Traits important to become a leader and maintain
  leadership not identified

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Functional Approach

• Shared leadership
• Task leadership group building
• initiating
• coordinating
• summarizing
• elaborating

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Functional Approach

• Shared leadership
• Process group maintenance
• tension release
• gatekeeping
• encouraging
• mediating

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Situational Leadership

• Authoritarian style
• Democratic style
• Laissez-faire style

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Situational Leadership

• Situational determinants of leadership (Korten)
• Hersey and Blanchard
• Style 1 Telling
• Style 2 Selling
• Style 3 Participating
• Style 4 - Delegating

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Situational Leadership Research Generalizations

• LF and D styles not similar. LF not as
  productive and satisfying
• A groups may be more efficient, but D groups also
  efficient
• Groups with A leaders more hostile and aggressive

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Situational Leadership Research Generalizations

• Groups with A leaders experience discontent not
  always visible
• Groups with A leaders more dependent and have
  less individuality
• Followers more commitment and cohesiveness in D
  groups

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Transformational Leadership

• Dimensions of transformational leaders (Larson
  LaFasto)
• Deep sense of vision
• Create change
• Unleash talent

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Transformational Leadership

• Transformational leaders are
• Creative
• Interactive
• Visionary
• Empowering
• Passionate

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Emergent Leadership

• Leaders emerge through method of residues
• Initial elimination (Phase I)
• Final contenders (Phase II)

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Gender and Leadership

• Summaries of recent research