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Leadership Traits & Ethics - Coggle Diagram
Leadership Traits & Ethics
Traits & Personality
Traits
Distinguishing
personal characteristics
Personality
Combination of traits
that classifies an individual's behaviour
Affect behaviour, perceptions & attitudes
Understanding personalities help to explain & predict others' behaviour & job performance
Big 5 Model of Personality
Surgency (Dominance)
Leadership & extraversion traits
Want to be in-charge
Agreeableness
Getting along with people traits
Sociable, friendly
Adjustment
Emotional stability traits
Stable = Self-control, calm, good under pressure
Conscientiousness
Achievement traits
Responsible & dependable
Openness to experience
Willingness to try new things traits
Seek change
Reasons for leader's derailment
Bullying style
Cold, aloof, arrogant
Betrayed personal trust
Self-centered
Specific performance problems
Overmanaged
Theory X vs Theory Y
Theory X (Control)
People are lazy
Dislike work
Do as little as possible
Requires close supervision
Coercive, autocratic leadership
Theory Y (Support)
People are motivated
Get satisfaction from work
Will do what is right for organization
Participative leadership
Pygmalion Effect
Leaders' attitudes, expectations & treatment of employees explain & predict behaviour & performance
Effective leaders set clear standards
Effective leaders expect the best from their followers
Leaders believe they can achieve the best, followers can
Self-Concept
+ve & -ve attitudes people have
about themselves
Self-efficacy:
Belief in one's own capabilities to perform in a specific situation
Both closely related to self-confidence, belief that one can be successful
Factors influencing Ethical Behaviour
Traits, Attitudes & Ethics
Related to individual needs & personality traits
Unethical behaviour: Emotionally unstable, external locus of control
Moral Development & Ethics
Preconventional: Based on self-interests
Conventional: Based on expectations of others
Post-conventional: Based on moral principles regardless of leader/grp ethics
Situation
Highly competitive situations
Unsupervised
No formal ethics policy
Unethical behaviour is not punished/rewarded