Exam 2 HRLR

What two types of group leadership is there?

• autocratic leadership and laissez-faire leadership
• instrumental and expressive leadership

• authoritarian leadership and democratic leadership
• transactional leadership and transformational leadership

Instrumental Leadership Style

• Focuses on the completion of tasks

• Motivating and inspiring team members
• Building strong relationships with team members
• Providing guidance and direction

Expressive Leadership Style

• Focuses on the
  the tasks not the
  group’s well-being

• Focuses on the
  completion

• Focuses on the
  completion of the
  group’s well-being

What three key types of leadership roles:

• directive, supportive, and achievement-oriented
• charismatic, bureaucratic, and servant
• authoritarian, participative, and transformational
• authoritarian, democratic, and laissez-faire

- Focuses on instrumental concerns

• - Takes personal responsibility for decision-making

• - Demands group obeys orders

• - Does not inspire much affection towards leader

• - Can be effective in getting things done

• Authoritarian

• Democratic

• Laissez-faire

• - Includes everyone in decision making

• - Less useful in getting things done incredibly fast

• - Draws ideas from all members of which can develop new and creative solutions

• Authoritarian

• Democratic

• Laissez-faire

• - Means "leave it alone" in French

• - Allows the group to function more or less on its own

• - This is the least effective in promoting group goals

• Authoritarian

• Democratic

• Laissez-faire

What is conformity?

• Adjusting one's thoughts, beliefs, or behaviors to match those of a group or society; Can provide a secure feeling of belonging but it can pressure someone into making a decision they otherwise wouldn't

• Questioning one's thoughts, beliefs, or behaviors to match those of a group or society.
• Ignoring one's thoughts, beliefs, or behaviors to match those of a group or society.
• Rejecting one's thoughts, beliefs, or behaviors to match those of a group or society.

Groupthink

• A social group towards which a person feels a sense of competition

• A social group toward which person feels respect and loyalty.

• A social group that serves as a point of reference in making and evaluating decisions

• The tendency of group members to conform, resulting in a narrow view of some issue

Out-group

• A social group towards which a person feels a sense of competition

• A social group toward which person feels respect and loyalty.

• A social group that serves as a point of reference in making and evaluating decisions

• The tendency of group members to conform, resulting in a narrow view of some issue