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Leadership?
The process of guiding and directing the behavior of people in the work environment.
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Formal Leadership?
Officially sanctioned leadership based on the authority of a formal position.
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Informal Leadership?
Unofficial leadership accorded to a person by other members of the organization.
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Followership?
The process of being guided and directed by a leader in the work envionment.
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Leader?
An advocate for change and new approaches to problems.
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Manager?
An advocate fro stability and the status quo.
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Autocratic Style?
A style of leadership in which the leader uses strong directive, ccontrolling actions to enforce the rules, regulations, activities, and relationships in the work environment.
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Democratic Style?
A style of leadership in which the leader takes collaborative, responsive, interactive actions with the followers and concerning the work and work environment.
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Laissez Faire-Style?
A style of leadership in which the leader fails to accpt the responsibilities of the position.
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Initiating Structure?
Leader behavior aimed at defining and organizing work relationships and roles, as ell as establishing clear patterns of organizations, communication, and ways of getting through.
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Consideration?
Leader behavior aimed at nurturing friendly, warm working relationships, as well as encouraging mutual trust and interpersonal respect within the work unit.
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Leadership Grid?
An approach to understanding a leader's or manager's concern for results (production) and concern for people.
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Country Club manager?
A leader who creates a happy comfortable work environment.
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Team Manager?
A leader who builds a highly productive team of commited people.
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Impovrished Manager?
A leader who exerts just enough effort to get by.
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Paternalistic "Father-Knows-Best" Manager?
A leader who promises reward and threatens punishments.
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Opportunistic "What's In It For Me" Manager?
A leader whose style aims to maximize self-benefits.
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Least Preferred Coworker?
The person a leader has least preferred to work with over his or her career.
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Task Structure?
the degree of clarity, or ambiguity, in the work activities assigned to the group.
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Leader-member Relations?
The quality of interpersonal relationships among a leader and the group members.
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Charismatic Leadership?
A leader's use of personal abilities and talents in order to have profound and extraodinary effects of followers.
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Authentic Leadership?
A style of leadership that includes transformational, charismatic, or transactional approaches as the situation demands.
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Dynamic Follower?
A follower who is a responsible steward of his or her job, is effective in managing the relationship with the boss, and practices self-management.
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