PSYC-3450 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Situational Leadership Theory, Ford Focus, Vhf Data Link
12 Oct 2018
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PSYC-3450
MIDTERM EXAM
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Fall 2018
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Lecture 1 - Power and Influence
Leadership defined !
-ways of conceptualizing leadership !
-Definition and components !
-trait vs process !
Definition:!
A process hereby an individual influences a group of individual to achieve a common
goal !
Leadership:!
-is a process!
-Involves influence!
-Occurs within a group context !
-Attends to common goals !
Leaders:!
-and followers are involved together !
-And followers need each other !
-Often initiate and maintain the relationship !
-Are not above or better than followers!
Trait Vs. Processes !
Trait: special skills that set you aside, inborn talent, who!
Process: interaction, properties possessed by people to varying degrees, observed in
leadership behaviours, developed !
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Thursday, September 6, 2018
I. Power and Influence Approach !
Power:!
-power: the capacity to influence others !
-Other definitions of power exist, eg social power is asymmetric contra over
valued resources and social relations !
-influence: the process of affecting others’ beliefs, attitudes, values, and/or
behaviour !
French and Raven’s 6 Bases of Individual Power
Position Power: who you are in an organization, what someone has from having higher
status (not about you, but your role within an organization)!
-Legitimate!
-Reward!
-Coercive!
-Information!
Personal Power: who you are and what others think about you !
-referent !
-Expert !
1. Legitimate power !
-they have the right to tell us what to do (political leaders, police, etc)!
-This power can come from various thing (electoral, social hierarchy, social norms,
etc)!
-based on rights and obligations associated with one’s position or role !
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Document Summary
A process hereby an individual in uences a group of individual to achieve a common goal. Are not above or better than followers. Trait: special skills that set you aside, inborn talent, who. Process: interaction, properties possessed by people to varying degrees, observed in leadership behaviours, developed. Thursday, september 6, 2018: power and in uence approach. Other de nitions of power exist, eg social power is asymmetric contra over valued resources and social relations. In uence: the process of a ecting others" beliefs, attitudes, values, and/or behaviour. French and raven"s 6 bases of individual power. Position power: who you are in an organization, what someone has from having higher status (not about you, but your role within an organization) Personal power: who you are and what others think about you. They have the right to tell us what to do (political leaders, police, etc) This power can come from various thing (electoral, social hierarchy, social norms, etc)
