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| Influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members |
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| the view that leadership is broadly distributed rather than assigned to one person, such that people within the team and organization lead each other |
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| Perspectives of leadership |
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| competency perspective, behavioral perspective, contingency perspective, transformation perspective, implicit leadership perspective |
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| Emotional intelligence, integrity, drive, leadership motivation, self-confidence, intelligence, knowledge of the business |
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| path-goal leadership theory |
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| A contingency theory of leadership based on expectancy theory of motivation that relates several leadership styles to specific employee and situational contingencies |
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| the belief that leaders serve followers by understanding their needs and facilitating their work performance |
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| path-goal leadership styles |
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| directive, supportive, participative, achievement-oriented |
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| Contingencies of path-goal theory |
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| skill and experience, locus of control, task structure, team dynamics |
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| situational leadership theory (SLT) |
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| development by Hersey and Blanchard, this model suggest that effective leaders vary their styles with the "readiness" of followers |
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| Fiedler's contingency model |
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| Development by Fred Fiedler, a model that suggests that leader effectiveness depends on whether the person's natural leadership style is appropriately matched to the situation |
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| a theory that identifies conditions that either limit a leader's ability to influence subordinates or make that particular leadership style unnecessary |
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| transformational leadership |
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| a leadership perspective that explains ho leaders change teams or organizations by creating, communicating, and modeling a vision for the organization or work unit and inspiring employees to strive for that vision |
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| leadership that helps organizations achieve their current objectives more efficiently, such as linking job performances to valued rewards and ensuring that employees have the resources needed to get the job done |
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| Elements of transformational leadership |
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| create a strategic vision, communicate the vision, model the vision, build commitment to the vision |
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| implicit leadership theory |
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| a theory hypothesizing that perceptual processes cause people to inflate the importance of leadership as the cause of organizational events |
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