FBLA organizational leadership

scenario examples

Manager makes all decisions and controls employees

Autocratic leadership

Leader involves team in decisions

Democratic leadership

Leader gives full freedom to employees

Laissez-faire leadership

Employee works harder expecting reward

Expectancy theory

Employee reduces effort due to unfair pay

Equity theory

Motivated by clear challenging goals

Goal-setting theory

Leader forms different relationships with employees

LMX theory

Team agrees to bad idea to avoid conflict

Groupthink

Team members slack off in group

Social loafing

Leader inspires vision and change

Transformational leadership

Leader focuses on rewards

Transactional leadership

Leader uses fear or punishment

Coercive power

Leader influences through expertise

Expert power

Leader influences through relationships

Referent power

Conflict ignored to keep peace

Avoiding

Person gives in to others

Accommodating

Person forces solution

Forcing

Both sides give something up

Compromising

Work together for best solution

Collaborating

Employees resist due to fear

Resistance to change

Leader sets long-term direction

Strategic leadership

Organization purpose statement

Mission statement

Future goal statement

Vision statement

Leader sees employees as lazy

Theory X

Leader sees employees as motivated

Theory Y

High expectations improve performance

Pygmalion effect