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| the processes and behaviors used by someone, such as a manager, to motivate, inspire, and influence the behaviors of others. |
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| Trait Approach to Leadership |
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| focused on identifying the essential traits that distinguish leaders. |
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| Behavioral Approach To Leadership |
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| focused on determining what behaviors are employed by leaders. |
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| Task-Focused Leader Behavior |
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| leader behavior focusing on how tasks should be performed in order to meet certain goals and to achieve certain performance standards. |
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| Employee-Focused Leader Behavior |
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| leader behavior focusing on satisfaction, motivation, and well-being of employees. |
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| Situational Approach To Leadership |
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| assumes that appropriate leader behavior varies from one situation to another. |
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| Transformational Leadership |
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| the set of abilities that allows a leader to recognize the need for change, to create a vision to guide that change, and to execute the change effectively. |
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| comparable to management, it involves routine, regimented activities. |
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| type of influence based on the leader's personal charisma. |
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| individual, task, and organizational characteristics that tend to outweigh the need for a leader to initiate or direct employee performance. |
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| factors that may render leader behaviors ineffective. |
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| leader's ability to understand the complexities of both the organization and its environment and to lead change in the organization so as to enhance its competitiveness. |
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| leader behaviors that reflect high ethical standards. |
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| leadership in settings where leaders and followers interact electronically rather than in face-to-face settings. |
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| choosing one alternative from among several options. |
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| an informal alliance of individuals or groups formed to achieve a common goal. |
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| an innate belief about something, often without conscious consideration. |
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| condition in which a decision maker becomes so committed to a course of action that she or he stays with it even when it appears to have been wrong. |
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| extent to which a decision maker is willing to gamble when making a decision. |
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