10 Substitutes for Leadership

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Leadership in Organizations Flashcards on 10 Substitutes for Leadership, created by Josefine Marie on 17/10/2020.
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Assumptions of Substitutes for Leadership Theory - based on Path Goal Theory, focus on leadership as complementing what followers need - there are situations where leadership is unnecessary - Three Factors: Organizational characteristics, the nature of subordinates tasks, characteristics of subordinates
Substitutes, Neutralizers and Enhancers - Substitutes: Factors that are directly related to employees outcomes + that replace the need for leader behavior, positively related to the outcome, regardless of the leader's behavior - Neutralizers: Factors that inhibit or even nullify the leader's behavioral influence on the outcome, uncorrelated with the outcome - Enhancers: Factors that enhance the leader's behavioral influence on outcome, uncorrelated with outcome
Examples for Substitutes and Neutralizers RELATIONSHIP ORIENTED LSHIP: Substitutes: Professionalism, Job is intrinsically satisfying, cohesive work groups Neutralizes: Indifference to rewards TASK-ORIENTED LSHIP: Substitutes: Experience/training, Professionalism, structured task, job provides own feedback, formalized goals, ridig rules, cohesive work groups Neutralizers: Indifference to rewards
Substituting Face to Face Leadership - Communication is predominatley based on electronig communication media - todays managers+employees are linked by networks rather than geographic proximity - Identification-based trust is difficult to achieve without face-to-face interaction - writing skills are likely to become an extension of interpersonal skills (also oral)
Best Practice Tips for Leading Virtual Teams 1. Provide more structure 2, Slwo down to speed up 3. Develop a role character 4. Relationships take extra time, effort and money to build 5. provide extra support to new team members 6. Unmute to allow for informality 7. video technology 8. preserve and curate digital information 9. limit boundary permeability and buffer your team 10. use different technologies for generating options, taking pulse, communicating decisions
Evaluation of Substitues for Leadership Strengths: -more inclusive list of contextual factors of leadership - clearer conceptualization of contingency variables from a subordinates persepctive Weaknesses: - high complexity of overall theory results of empirical tests are mixed
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