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Leadership II: Style
Overview of Leadership: part II
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Business
Undergraduate 4
12/09/2009

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Who leads when tasks are complex and uncertain?
Definition
-Goal is clear, but solution and strategy for achieving it are not
- Each member has specialized knowledge & skills, but few guidelines for determining whose are relevant and useful
-We look to formal leaders for motivation, but informal leaders can step up and take initiative to lead
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Two approaches to leadership:
Definition
1. Task leadership style
2. Relational leadership style
Term
Task Strategies:
Definition
Brainstorming
Who solves fastest or hast most difficulty? Why?
Term
Task Leaders - Visionaries and Strategists
Definition
1. Defining and clarifying the vision or goal
2. Creating a strategy or action plan for achieving the vision/goal
3. Providing regular feedback
Term
Relational Leaders - Coaches
Definition
1. Cultivating positive emotions
2. Encouraging participation
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Relational Leaders: Benefits of Positive Emotions
Definition
-Resilience under adversity
- Positive emotions build
psychological and physical resources
- Creativity and innovation
- Positive emotions broaden thought-
action repertoires
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Is Brainstorming Effective?
Definition
Most research suggests that brainstorming typically is not effective
- Employees produce lower quality and
quantity of ideas than when working
alone
Why? Costs of face-to-face brainstorming
-Production blocking: members take turns expressing their ideas
- Evaluation apprehension: anxiety about being judged by others
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Brainstorming can provide benefits:
Definition
-skill variety for employees
-motivating effort through status competition
-challenging existing perspectives
-impressing customers (or other stakeholders)
Term
More effective Brainstorming
Definition
submit ideas in writing first: reduces costs of production blocking

Make contributions anonymous: reduces costs of evaluation apprehension
Term
Senior executives tend to...
Definition
-Dominate instead of encouraging everyone to participate and contribute
-Withhold ideas because they're worried about protecting their own egos
-spend too much time thinking and too little time acting, testing, experimenting.
Term
Elementary school children tend to...
Definition
-Naturally create roles for everyone to contribute
-Dive right in without worrying about image and impressions
-Get absorbed in the tasks as "play" with very little ego involvement
-Collaborate and cooperate to find a solution
Term
What is the optimal team size for a group task?
Definition
No greater than 5.
Why?
Beyond 5, exponential increases in:
-Coordination and communication difficulties
-Production blocking
-Social loafing, free riding, disengagement
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