Leadership

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Leadership

• Importance of leaders
• Organize collective efforts
• Formal versus informal
• Manage versus lead
• Basic questions
• Traits
• Leader emergence
• Leader performance
• Person-situation fit
• Skills rather than traits
• Trainable?

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Trait Approach

• Stable characteristics of leaders
• Intelligence, energy, emotional stability, high
  self-monitoring, dominance
• Big fiveextraversion, conscientiousness
• Motivationaffective identity, noncalculative,
  social normative
• Virtuesintegrity, decisiveness, competence,
  vision
• Needshigh power and achievement, low affiliation

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Task versus Person Orientation
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Consequences of Leader Orientation
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Unsuccessful Leaders

• Lack of training
• Personality
• Paranoid/passive-aggressive
• High likeability floater
• Narcissist
• Cognitive deficiencies
• Four themes
• Poor interpersonal skills
• Unable to get work done
• Unable to build a team
• Unable to make transition after promotion

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Interactionleader and situation

• Fiedlers contingency model
• Least-Preferred Coworker Scale
• Situation favorability/control
• Task structure
• Leader position power
• Leader-member relations

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Organizational ClimateIMPACT

• Informational, Magnetic, Position, Affiliation,
  Coercive, Tactical
• Effective leadership
• Find climate consistent with leadership style
• Change leadership style to fit climate
• Change followers perception of climate
• Change
• climate

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Subordinate Ability

• Path-goal theory
• Styles
• Instrumental
• Supportive
• Participative
• Achievement
• Contingency factors
• Subordinate attributes
• Work setting attributes
• Directive task ambiguous
• Supportiverepetitive tasks
• Achievementambiguous non repetitive
• Participativeego involvement

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• Situational leadership
• Leadermember exchange (LMX)in-group and
  out-group
• Leader substitutes

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Skills

• Basic
• Intrapersonal, interpersonal, business,
  leadership
• Decision making
• Contact
• Power
• Expert, legitimate, reward, coercive, referent
• Charismatichigh need for power, self-efficacy,
  belief in rightness
• Transformational

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Scoring Key for Employee Personality Inventory

• 1. ( S ) Calm ( O ) Efficient
• 2. ( O ) Accurate ( C ) Energetic
• 3. ( T ) Original ( D ) Competitive
• 4. ( S ) Introverted ( C ) Extroverted
• 5. ( O ) Careful ( D ) Bold
• 6. ( T ) Resourceful ( S ) Trusting
• 7. ( S ) Empathic ( T ) Inquiring
• 8. ( D ) Assertive ( O ) Exact
• 9. ( C ) Playful ( D ) Dominant
• 10. ( T ) Curious ( O ) Detailed
• 11. ( O ) Precise ( S ) Tolerant
• 12. ( D ) Ambitious ( S ) Helpful
• 13. ( C ) Outgoing ( T ) Imaginative
• 14. ( C ) Talkative ( S ) Agreeable
• 15. ( T ) Enterprising ( C ) Friendly
• 16. ( D ) Persuasive ( C ) Sociable
• 17. ( S ) Patient ( D ) Convincing
• 18. ( O ) Organized ( T ) Inventive
• 19. ( C ) Conversational ( O )
  Self-disciplined

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• 21. ( S ) Loyal ( C ) Chatty
• 22. ( D ) Outspoken ( S ) Soft-spoken
• 23. ( T ) Clever ( C ) Socializer
• 24. ( D ) Powerful ( T ) Insightful
• 25. ( O ) Dependable ( D ) Self-assured
• 26. ( C ) Frisky ( D ) Intense
• 27. ( S ) Peaceful ( T ) Smart
• 28. ( C ) Spontaneous ( O ) Cautious
• 29. ( T ) Innovative ( O ) Systematic
• 30. ( O ) Orderly ( S ) Cooperative
• 31. ( D ) Daring ( S ) Sincere
• 32. ( O ) Methodical ( C ) Outgoing
• 33. ( T ) Sharp ( C ) Fun
• 34. ( D ) Rebellious ( O ) Punctual
• 35. ( C ) Fun-loving ( D ) Fearless
• 36. ( T ) Bright ( D ) Dynamic
• 37. ( S ) Modest ( T ) Perceptive
• 38. ( O ) Detailed ( T ) Ingenious
• 39. ( C ) Mingler ( S ) Courteous