AGED 260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Transformational Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Expectancy Theory
15 Dec 2017
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Centers on how leaders motivate followers to accomplish designated goals. Goal-to enhance employee performance and satisfaction by focusing on employee motivation: followers will be motivated if. That their efforts will result in a certain outcome. That the payoffs for doing their work are worthwhile. Path-goal leadership: defines goal, clarifies path, removes obstacles, provides support. Directive leadership-leader who gives followers task instruction: task characteristics: ambiguous, unclear rules, complex, follower characteristics: dogmatic, authoritarian. Supportive leadership- leader who is friendly and approachable: followers as equals, task characteristics: repetitive, unchallenging, mundane, follower characteristics: unsatisfied, need affiliation, need human touch. Internal-participative-followers feel in charge and they are apart of the decision making process. External-directive-leadership parallels followers" feelings that outside forces control their circumstances: strong need for affiliation (supportive leadership, preference for structure (dogmatic and authoritarian) (directive leadership, perception of their own ability-specific task. Task characteristics: components-design of followers" task/ organization"s formal authority system/primary work group of followers, task situations-requiring leader involvement.
