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Leadership in which the leader transcends self-interest to
Servant leadership serve the needs of others, help others grow, and provide
opportunities for others to gain materially and
emotionally
, The mental and moral strength to engage in, persevere through,
Courage
and withstand danger, difficulty, or fear
the tendency of people to resist voicing their true thoughts or
Abilene Paradox
feelings in order to please others and avoid conflict
Whistleblowing employee disclosure of illegal, immoral, or unethical practices in the
organization
the level of personal moral development in which leaders are
postconventional level
guided by an internalized set of principles universally
recognized as righ
a belief that leaders are deeply accountable to others as well as
Stewardship to the organization, without trying to control others, define
meaning and purpose for others, or take care of others
the level of personal moral development in which people
conventional level
learn to conform to the expectations of good behavior as
defined by colleagues, family, friends, and society
defines whether a person places the primary responsibility for
locus of control
what happens to him or her within himself/herself or on
outside forces
authoritarianism the belief that power and status differences should exist in an
organization
judgments about what caused a person's behavior-either
Attributions
characteristics of the person or of the situation
perceptual distortions errors in judgment that arise from inaccuracies in the perceptual process
the process people use to make sense out of the environment by
perception
selecting, organizing, and interpreting information
the part of the brain associated in the whole brain model with
Quadrant A
logical thinking, analysis of facts, and processing numbers
Cognitive style how a person perceives, processes, interprets, and uses information
an overall impression of a person or situation based on one
halo effect
characteristic, either favorable or unfavorable
the tendency to assign an individual to a broad category and then
Stereotyping
attribute generalizations about the group to the individual
the degree to which a person has a broad range of interests and
openness to experience
is imaginative, creative, and willing to consider new ideas
the assumption that people are basically lazy and not motivated
Theory X
to work and that they have a natural tendency to avoid
responsibility