PSY100H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Organizational Conflict, Organizational Identification, Organizational Communication
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The trait theory of leadership trait theory: leadership depends on personal qualities/traits of leader certain traits related (weakly: stronger for affective and relational measures than performance-related measures. Problems include: determining direction of correlation, ambiguities surrounding causal mechanisms, situational factors, bias and discrimination traits: individual characteristics such as physical attributes, intellectual ability, and personality. The behaviour of leaders consideration: extent to which a leader is approachable and shows personal concern and respect for employees. More generally related to follower satisfaction, motivation, leader effectiveness initiating structure: degree to which a leader concentrates on group goal attainment. Situational theories of leadership effectiveness of leadership style is contingent on setting. Participative leadership: involving employees in decisions participative leadership: involving employees in making work-related decisions. Potential disadvantages time and energy loss of power lack of receptivity/knowledge. Vroom and jago"s situational model of participation leader"s information: ai, aii, ci, cii, gi, gii, quality requirement, commitment requirement, problem structure, commitment probability, goal congruence, subordinate conflict, subordinate information.
