vocab for management and leadership

Created by: rosalyn.goodenough
Created on: 05-04-17 11:28

leadership

deciding on the direction for a business/department/functional area, setting objectives that reflect this, and inspiring and motivating staff to achieve these objectives. Leadership is a relationship through which one person influences the behaviour

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management

getting things done by planning, organising and co-ordinating people and resources Work for the leader to get things done Risk averse, avoid conflict and want to run a ‘happy ship’

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authoritarian

make decisions on their own, thin tell staff what to do and how to do it

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paternalistic

Mangers/leders do consult employees, but decision making power is firmly retained by the manager Similar to a parent and child, workers are closely supervised but real attempts are made to gain the respect and acceptance of employees

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democratic

Consider the workers opinions/ideas, and then make a decision. Power is shared with the group as a whole

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lassez-faire

Managers create guidelines and objectives, but then leave the staff to carry out tasks for themselves, eg artist

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organisational culture

is a system of shared assumptions, values, and beliefs, which governs how people behave in organizations. These shared values have a strong influence on the people in the organization and dictate how they dress, act, and perform their jobs.

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McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y

are theories of human motivation and management. They were created and developed by Douglas McGregor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1960s.

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Tannenbaum and Schmidt Continuum

simple model of leadership theory which shows the relationship between the level of freedom that a manager chooses to give to a team, and the level of authority used by the manager. As the team's freedom is increased, so the manager's authority decre

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Blake Mouton Managerial Grid

is a style leadership model developed by Robert R. Blake and Jane Mouton. This model originally identified five different leadership styles based on the concern for people and the concern for production.

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getting things done by planning, organising and co-ordinating people and resources Work for the leader to get things done Risk averse, avoid conflict and want to run a ‘happy ship’

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make decisions on their own, thin tell staff what to do and how to do it

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Consider the workers opinions/ideas, and then make a decision. Power is shared with the group as a whole

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