Leadership

This perspective perceives leadership through personal attributes and characteristics that leaders possess.

• Functional Perspective

• Situational Perspective

• Trait Perspective

This perspective examines leadership as behavior that may be performed to maximize group effectiveness.

• Trait Perspective

• Situational Perspective

• Functional Perspective

This perspective takes into account different leadership styles that may be adequate under different circumstances.

• Trait Perspective

• Situational Perspective

• Functional Perspective

This kind of leadership is oriented toward accomplishing the group's goal.

• Task Leadership

• Process Leadership

This kind of leadership is oriented toward maintaining a supportive group climate.

• Process Leadership

• Task Leadership

Which of the following kinds of behavior does not represent task leadership?

• Initiating

• Coordinating

• Summarizing

• Encouraging

Which of the following types of behavior does not represent process leadership?

• Releasing tension

• Gatekeeping

• Elaborating

• Mediating

These leaders assume the position of intellectual and behavioral authority.

• Authoritarian Leaders

• Democratic Leaders

• Laissez-faire Leaders

These leaders have faith in the group; consequently, they involve group members in decision making process.

• Authoritarian Leaders

• Democratic Leaders

• Laissez-faire Leaders

These leaders allow the group to manage itself because they believe they are no better than other team members.

• Authoritarian Leaders

• Laissez-faire Leaders

• Democratic Leaders