WorksheetsGroup-Centered Theories
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
Team leadership is…
How leaders facilitate team performance
How leaders facilitate individual importance
Not a type of leadership
The four main types of teams are…
Productive, Destructive, Effective, and Efficient
Group Formation, Group Storming, Group Norming, and Group Performing
Manager-Led, Self-Managing, Self-Designing, and Self-Governing
The two key concepts of team leadership include…
Leaders in team settings can either have formal or informal roles; leaders in teams may influence the team internally or externally
Leaders in team settings always have formal roles; leaders in teams may only influence teams internally
Leaders in team settings always have informal roles; leaders in teams may only influence teams externally
The three Team Leader Functions include…
Flow of Power, Inattention to Social Location, and Disregard of Context
Explaining, Engaging, and Encouraging
Setting Direction, Managing Operations, and Developing Team’s Capacity for Self-Management
Shared leadership is…
Leadership responsibilities are distributed, people within a team lead each other
Leadership responsibilities are controlled by one authority figure in a team
Leadership responsibilities are continuously changed throughout a group
The precursor conditions of shared leadership include…
Leader-Member Exchange Theory, Team Leadership, Shared Leadership
Individual reflection, authority, independence of work, individual efficacy
Team environment, support of positional leaders, interdependence of work, collective efficacy
The most distinguishing feature of shared leadership is…
Influence can arise from any direction of the group, everyone can be the leader
Influence can arise from one direction of the group, one person can be the leader
Influence can arise from any direction of the group, but only one person can implement decisions
How is the flow of power an ideal tool of Deconstruction…..
Because of its focus on directionality in power dynamics and their entanglement with social location
Because of its focus on teamwork and intrapersonal reflection
Becuase of its focus on the shifts in leadership
What is dialectical thinking?
The process of holding two seemingly contradictory concepts in unison
The process of comparing two seemingly similar concepts
How is understanding individuals' psychological relationships with authority important?
Because it's identifying and disrupting inequitable power dynamics in group-centered leadership theories
Because it's telling you who has the innate traits to be a leader
Becuase it's emphasizing that there must alwasy be an authority figure in leadership roles
The Leader-Member Exchange Theory...
Focuses on the bidirectional relationships between leaders and each of their subordinates
Emphasizes that leadership is a stagnant concept
Focuses on the intrapersonal relationships leaders create about themselves
In the Leadership-Member Exchange model, what is the difference between in-groups and out-groups?
In-groups are perceived as having higher potential; out-groups are perceived as having lower potential
There is no difference between in-groups and out-groups
In-groups are percieved as having lower potential; out-groups are perceived as having higher potential
