Soc- Leadership and group decision making
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- Created on: 02-01-22 16:22
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- Leadership
- (Leslie & Van Velsor 1996) Four most prominent patterns of bad leadership are..
- Failure to build an effective team
- Insensitivity and lack of care about others
- Poor interpersonal skills to manage the team
- Inability to adjust to being promoted above ones skills or qualifications
- Very bad leaders have what is called the dark triad of personality variables
- Narcissism- consumed with self importance, arrogance and lack of empathy and a lot of entitlement
- Baumeister, Smart & Boden; Rosenthal & Pattinsky (2006)
- Machiavellianism- will do anything to maintain their position of power (plot, plan, play people off each other
- Baumeister, Smart & Boden; Rosenthal & Pattinsky (2006)
- Psychopathy
- Narcissism- consumed with self importance, arrogance and lack of empathy and a lot of entitlement
- Moghaddam (2013)- dictorial leaders most harmful as they surround themselves with a ruling elite that they cajole ideologically through rewards and punishment
- Chemers (2001)- defined leadership from a social psych perspective as a 'process of social influence through which an individual enlists and mobilises the aid of others in the attainment of collective goal'
- Great person theory- Perspective on leadership that attributes effective leadership to innate or acquired individual characteristics
- Leadership style
- Transformational leadership
- Big 5 personality dimensions- Extraversion/ surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional stability, Intellect/ openness to experience
- Meta analysis from 73 studies by Timothy Judge et al (2002) found these attributes have an overall correlation of 0.58 with leadership
- Ronald Lippitt & Ralph White (1943)- used after school activities clubs for young boys to study the effects of different styles of leadership on group atmosphere, morale and effectiveness
- Leaders were confederates trained as... Autocratic leaders (giving order). Democratic leaders (consultation), Laissez faire (disinterest in followers)
- Democratic (friendly atmosphere, task orientated) liked significantly more than laissez faire leaders (friendly, play orientated)
- Used leader behaviour description questionnaire
- Leaders were confederates trained as... Autocratic leaders (giving order). Democratic leaders (consultation), Laissez faire (disinterest in followers)
- Transformational leadership
- More to leadership than personality- situational factors (characteristics of the leader and situation interact)
- Desirable characteristics of leader vary across collectivist and individualist culture
- Some personalities more suited to some situations (peace vs war time)- Winston Churchill- argumentative and opinionated- useful in war less so in peace
- (Leslie & Van Velsor 1996) Four most prominent patterns of bad leadership are..
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