week 7: social leadership

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1. What is a transformational leader?

  • A leader who appeal to followers self interest via their charisma
  • Changing whom they are by conforming to established group norms.
  • Challenge basic thinking and create a sense of direction and energy for their followers.
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2. In Lippits and Whites study, what leadership type had an aggressive / self-orientated group atmosphere?

  • Democratic
  • Autocratic
  • Laissez Faire

3. What archival research did Janis investigate to coin the term group think?

  • 1961 Bay of Pigs Fiasco
  • 1961 Lord of the Flies
  • 1982 Bay of Pigs Fiasco
  • 1982 Lord of the Flies

4. What are the symptoms of group think?

  • Unanimous decision, emergency situation, Controlling leader
  • unquesting behaviour, stereotyping outgroups, pressure on dissidents.
  • critical evaluation, authoritative leader, devil advocate
  • excessive cohesiveness, high stress of task, Homogenety ideology

5. According to contingency theories, what must good leaders be able to do?

  • Allow outliers to partake in their group
  • Accomodate to circumstance
  • Learn from their mistakes
  • To accept failure, and try again.
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