Chap glossary for Certo's Modern Management, 9ed.

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Coaching
Consideration behavior
Contingency theory of leadership
Employee-centered behavior
Entrepreneurial leadership
Job-centered behavior
Leader flexibility
Leadership
Leadership style
Life cycle theory of leadership
Path-goal theory of leadership
Situational approach to leadership
Structure behavior
Superleadership
Trait approach to leadership
Transformational leadership
Vroom-Yetton-Jago (VYJ) Model of leadership
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Coaching is a leadership that instructs followers
on how to meet the special organizational
challenges they face.
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Consideration behavior is leadership behavior
that reflects friendship,mutual trust, respect,
and warmth in the relationship between leader and
followers.
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The contingency theory of leadership is a
leadership concept that hypothesizes that, in any
given leadership situation, success is determined
primarily by (1) the degree to which the task
being performed by the followers is structured,
(2) the degree of position power possessed by the
leader, and (3) the type of relationship that
exists between the leader and the followers.
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Employee-centered behavior is leader behavior
that focuses primarily on subordinates as people.
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Entrepreneurial leadership is leadership that is
based on the attitude that the leader is
self-employed.
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Job-centered behavior is leader behavior that
focuses primarily on the work a subordinate is
doing.
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Leader flexibility is the ability to change
leadership style.
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Leadership is the process of directing the
behavior of others toward the accomplishment of
objectives.
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Leadership style is the behavioral pattern a
leader establishes while guiding organization
members in appropriate directions.
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The life cycle theory of leadership is a
leadership concept that hypothesizes that
leadership styles should reflect primarily the
maturity level of the followers.
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Path-goal theory of leadership is a theory of
leadership that suggests that the primary
activities of a leader are to make desirable and
achievable rewards available to organization
members who attain organizational goals and to
clarify the kinds of behavior that must be
performed to earn those rewards.
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The situational approach to leadership is a
relatively modern view of leadership that
suggests that successful leadership requires a
unique combination of leaders, followers, and
leadership situations.
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Structure behavior is leadership activity that
(1) delineates the relationship between the
leader and the leaders followers or (2)
establishes well-defined procedures that the
followers should adhere to in performing their
jobs.
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Superleadership is leadership that inspires
organizational success by showing followers how
to lead themselves.
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The trait approach to leadership is an outdated
view of leadership that sees the personal
characteristics of an individual as the main
determinants of how successful that individual
could be as a leader.
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Transformational leadership is leadership that
inspires organizational success by profoundly
affecting followers beliefs in what an
organization should be, as well as their values,
such as justice and integrity.
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The Vroom-Yetton-Jago (VYJ) Model of leadership
is a modern view of leadership that suggests that
successful leadership requires determining,
through a decision tree, what style of leadership
will produce decisions that are beneficial to the
organization and will be accepted and committed
to by subordinates.