Leadership, Positive Leadership Theories, and Emotional Intelligence

Vocabulary flashcards covering fundamental leadership concepts, contemporary leadership styles, positive leadership theories (transformational, transactional, and servant leadership), relational leadership, and emotional intelligence competencies.

Leadership (Northouse, 2010)

Process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal.

Leadership (House, Javidan, & Dorfman, 2001)

Ability to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members.

Principled Leadership

Ethically and morally responsible leadership that moves individuals toward the attainment of mutually agreed-upon, values-based goals.

Management

The process of reaching organizational goals by working with and through people and other organizational resources.

Management vs. Leadership (Gardner, 1990)

A behavioral and process distinction where management is task and process oriented, structured, efficiency minded, and transactional, whereas leadership is inspirational, relationship oriented, visionary, risk taking, and transformational.

Individual Leadership

A leadership model where a person with primary responsibility for an organization is the leader and other members are followers.

Shared Process Leadership (Yukl, 2009)

A leadership model where the distinction between leader and followers is less clear, allowing many members of the system to be influential at various times.

Coercive Leadership Style

A contemporary leadership style where the leader demands compliance and decision making is top-down.

Authoritative Leadership Style

A contemporary leadership style where the leader acts as a change catalyst and mobilizes people toward a vision.

Affiliative Leadership Style

A contemporary leadership style where the leader focuses on developing relationships, creating harmony, and building emotional bonds.

Democratic Leadership Style

A contemporary leadership style where the leader forges consensus through participation, collaboration, and communication.

Pacesetting Leadership Style

A contemporary leadership style where the leader sets high standards for performance and models drive and initiative.

Coaching Leadership Style

A contemporary leadership style where the leader focuses on developing people for the future.

Trait Theory of Leadership

The idea that leadership traits are inherent and that leaders are born, not made, with traits such as drive, self-confidence, cognitive ability, and conscientiousness.

Technical Skill (Katz, 1955)

A category of leadership skill requiring specialized knowledge in a specific discipline.

Human Skill (Katz, 1955)

A category of leadership skill defined as the ability to work cooperatively and be sensitive to the needs of others.

Conceptual Skill (Katz, 1955)

A category of leadership skill defined as the ability to work with ideas, create vision, recognize problems, and develop solutions.

Contingency Theory of Leadership

A theory asserting that group or organizational performance depends on the match between a leader's style, the situation, and the extent of leader influence (Fiedler, 1967).

Transformational Leadership

A positive leadership style where leaders try to motivate followers to change or transform themselves, responding to individual needs, inspiring followers, and aligning organizational and personal goals.

Idealized Influence

A dimension of transformational leadership capturing charismatic behaviors of the leader, elements attributed to the leader by followers, and the emotional component of leadership.

Inspirational Motivation

A dimension of transformational leadership where leaders set clear and high expectations and motivate followers to meet those expectations while demonstrating commitment to shared goals.

Intellectual Stimulation

A dimension of transformational leadership involving processes used by leaders to stimulate followers to be creative and innovative, encouraging them to question assumptions and challenge how things are done.

Individualized Consideration

A dimension of transformational leadership where leaders create a supportive environment, paying attention to followers' individual needs for growth and achievement.

Transactional Leadership

A leadership style where leaders try to motivate followers by exchanging resources and offering payment for doing work in exchange for something the leader desires.

Full Range Leadership Model

A model developed by Bass (1985) and expanded by Avolio & Bass (1991) that maps transformational, transactional, and passive avoidant (laissez-faire) leadership behaviors along passive-to-active and ineffective-to-effective continuums.

Contingent Reward

A transactional leadership dimension where leaders assign tasks with the understanding that rewards will be provided upon successful completion.

Active Management by Exception

A transactional leadership dimension where leaders look for mistakes or deviations from normal standards while monitoring work and take corrective actions.

Passive Management by Exception

A transactional leadership dimension where leaders wait for mistakes or deviations from normal standards before intervening.

Laissez-Faire Leadership

The absence of leadership, where leaders do not make necessary decisions and actions are not taken.

Servant Leadership

A people-centered leadership approach focused on leader-follower interaction, emphasizing attentiveness to follower needs, placing follower interests above the leader's own, and serving first before leading.

Stewardship

A servant leadership characteristic where leaders are willing to take responsibility for the entire organization and put organizational interests above self-interest.

Self-Actualization

An expected outcome of servant leadership referring to the continual development of oneself and the realization of one's potential.

Social Construction Leadership

A leadership perspective stating that anyone can be perceived as a leader regardless of formal title (Billsberry et al., 2018).

Relational Leadership

A framework incorporating social construction where everyone in a group can be a leader through verbal/nonverbal interactions and meaning making, regardless of formal titles (Whales et al., 2022).

Steering (Youth Sport Leadership)

An antecedent in youth sport shared leadership involving member-to-member communication, such as communicating that weekly tasks were complete (Van Dalfsen).

Coaching (Youth Sport Leadership)

An antecedent in youth sport shared leadership involving player-to-player support, peer coaching, and accountability (Van Dalfsen).

Emotional Intelligence (Bar-On, 2006)

The ability to understand oneself and others, relate to others, and adapt to and cope with immediate surroundings.

Emotional Intelligence (Mayer & Salovey, 1997)

The ability to perceive, appraise, and express emotion; understand emotion; and regulate emotions to promote emotional and intellectual growth.

Emotional Self-Awareness

The ability to read and understand your emotions as well as recognize their impact on work performance and relationships.

Accurate Self-Assessment

A realistic evaluation of personal strengths and limitations within the self-awareness domain of emotional intelligence.

Empathy

Skill at sensing others' emotions, understanding their perspective, and taking an active interest in their concerns.

Organizational Awareness

The ability to read the currents of organizational life, build decision networks, and navigate politics.

Resonant Leaders

Leaders who demonstrate high degrees of emotional intelligence, exhibit upbeat and enthusiastic attitudes, and empathize with and manage followers' emotions.

Dissonant Leaders

Leaders who demonstrate low levels of emotional intelligence, act in manipulative and demeaning ways, and create toxic environments.

Emotional Intelligence Behavioral Profiles

A comparative matrix categorizing traits into low emotional intelligence behaviors (e.g., aggressive, easily distracted, resistant to change, critical) versus high emotional intelligence behaviors (e.g., assertive, warm, patient, detailed).