Sociology 3335A/B Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Individualism, Ford Focus, Time
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MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
3335 – January 8, 2018
An Introduction to Leadership
• Personal experiences, characteristics, and settings affect leadership style/purpose
• New views on leadership are needed (especially ones with ethical collaborations)
Foundational Principles
1. Leadership is a concern of all of us
• Responsibility to contribute
• Responsibility to develop shared leadership and participatory governance
2. Leadership is viewed and valued differently by various disciplines and cultures
• Multidisciplinary approach
• Shared understanding of differences
3. Conventional views of leadership have changed
• Practice leadership flexibly
4. Leadership can be exhibited in many ways
5. Leadership qualities and skills can be learned and developed
• Made, not born
• Self-awareness and self-understanding
• Understanding of others
6. Leadership committed to ethical action is needed to encourage change and social responsibility
• People engaged in change
• Credibility, authenticity, integrity, and ethical conduct
• Understand how important relationships are in leadership (3 basic principles)
1. Knowing
2. Being
3. Doing
• Requires being intentional and thoughtful
• Examining ourselves and realizing that others think differently
Understanding Paradigms
• Unpredictable
• Awareness of needing a change may signal a paradigm shift
• Paradigm Shift = shift in the previously held patterns or views
• Does not always mean completely changing a view
• Alogside the old. It is appearig iside ad aroud the old paradig…uildig o it, aplifig it ad
etedig it…ot replaig it
• Now = paradigm that values collaboration
• Research in the past has been mainly focused on the individual leader rather than the leadership
process
• Recently, focus has been shifted to followers
• Uderstadig the relatioal ature of leadership ad folloership opes up riher forms of
ioleet ad reards i groups, orgaizatios, ad soiet at large
• How followers can become leaders themselves
• Leadership is ot soethig a leader possesses so uh as a proess iolig folloership
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• Leadership = a relational and ethical process of people together attempting to accomplish positive
change
Followers
• Followers must be active participants
• Often leadership approaches do not engage followers and give them power
• Shift from controlling followers to empowering them is needed
• Now, followers are expected to cooperate and follow the leader
• Leadership = an outcome of people working together on a common agenda or change initiative
Followership
• Followership skills are the skills practiced by group members
Diagram Note: Horizontal goes from low to high and vertical goes from high to low
See pg. 16 figure 1.1 for detail
• Effective Followers = individuals with high organizational commitment who are able to function well in
a change-oriented team environment. Additionally, they are independent, critical thinkers with highly
developed integrity and competency
• Dynamic followership allows for effective leadership
• Followers need to be courageous, speak truth to leaders, and take risks when leaders are being
ineffective
• As a follower you should (*Note: not sure I agree with these):
o Offer support to the leader
o Take initiative
o Play counselling and coaching roles to the leader when appropriate
o Raise issues and/or concerns when necessary
o Seek and encourage honest feedback from the leader
o Clarify your role and expectations
o Show appreciation
o Keep the leader informed
o Resist inappropriate influence of the leader
• Public Leadership = does not engage followers; rather it involves collaborations, audiences, and other
self-organizing groups
Ne Ter for Folloers
• Constituent: a ostituet is soeoe ho has a atie part i the proess of ruig a
organization and who authorizes another to act on his or her behalf. A constituent confers authority
o the leader, ot the other a aroud.
- Politician
+ Partner
- Subordinate
+ Contributor
Performance Initiative
Relationship Initiative
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Document Summary
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