Competencies Vocab Quiz

Coaching leadership approach

• Leadership approach in which the leader focuses on developing team members’ skills, believing that success comes from aligning the organization’s goals with employees’ personal and professional goals.

• Motivation theory that states that the way a person interprets the causes for past success or failure is related to the present level of motivation; includes theories of Heider and Weiner.

• Power that is created when a leader is recognized as possessing great intelligence, insight, or experience.

• Motivation theory that states that individuals are motivated by a desire to satisfy certain needs and that understanding these needs allows leaders to offer the right incentives and create the most motivational external environments; includes self-determination and theories of Maslow, Herzberg, and McClelland.

Affiliative leadership approach

• Leadership approach in which the leader creates strong relationships with and inside the team; team members are motivated by loyalty.

• Motivation theory that states that the way a person interprets the causes for past success or failure is related to the present level of motivation; includes theories of Heider and Weiner.

• Leadership approach in which the leader focuses on developing team members’ skills, believing that success comes from aligning the organization’s goals with employees’ personal and professional goals.

• Leadership approach in which the leader imposes a vision or solution on the team and demands that the team follow this directive.

Authoritative leadership approach

• Category of leadership theories that states that leaders influence group members through certain behaviors; includes Blake-Mouton theory.

• Leadership approach in which the leader creates strong relationships with and inside the team; team members are motivated by loyalty.

• Leadership approach in which the leader proposes a bold vision or solution and invites the team to join this challenge.

• Leadership approach in which the leader imposes a vision or solution on the team and demands that the team follow this directive.

Behavioral theories

• Leadership approach in which the leader proposes a bold vision or solution and invites the team to join this challenge.

• Category of leadership theories that states that leaders influence group members through certain behaviors; includes Blake-Mouton theory.

• Motivation theory that states that the way a person interprets the causes for past success or failure is related to the present level of motivation; includes theories of Heider and Weiner.

• Leadership approach in which the leader creates strong relationships with and inside the team; team members are motivated by loyalty.

Coaching leadership approach

• Leadership approach in which the leader proposes a bold vision or solution and invites the team to join this challenge.

• Category of leadership theories that states that leaders influence group members through certain behaviors; includes Blake-Mouton theory.

• Leadership approach in which the leader focuses on developing team members’ skills, believing that success comes from aligning the organization’s goals with employees’ personal and professional goals.

• Leadership approach in which the leader creates strong relationships with and inside the team; team members are motivated by loyalty.

Coercive leadership approach

• Leadership approach in which the leader proposes a bold vision or solution and invites the team to join this challenge.

• Leadership approach in which the leader imposes a vision or solution on the team and demands that the team follow this directive.

• Leadership approach in which the leader focuses on developing team members’ skills, believing that success comes from aligning the organization’s goals with employees’ personal and professional goals.

• Leadership approach in which the leader creates strong relationships with and inside the team; team members are motivated by loyalty.

Coercive power

• Leadership approach in which the leader proposes a bold vision or solution and invites the team to join this challenge.

• Leadership approach in which the leader imposes a vision or solution on the team and demands that the team follow this directive.

• Power that is created when the leader can punish those who do not follow.

• Leadership approach in which the leader creates strong relationships with and inside the team; team members are motivated by loyalty.

Democratic leadership approach

• Leadership approach in which the leader proposes a bold vision or solution and invites the team to join this challenge.

• Leadership approach in which the leader imposes a vision or solution on the team and demands that the team follow this directive.

• Leadership approach in which the leader invites followers to collaborate and commits to acting by consensus.

• Leadership approach in which the leader creates strong relationships with and inside the team; team members are motivated by loyalty.

Emergent theory

• Leadership theory that states that leaders are not appointed but emerge from the group, which chooses the leader based on interactions.

• Leadership approach in which the leader imposes a vision or solution on the team and demands that the team follow this directive.

• Leadership approach in which the leader invites followers to collaborate and commits to acting by consensus.

• Leadership approach in which the leader creates strong relationships with and inside the team; team members are motivated by loyalty.

Equity theory

• Theory that states that motivation is based on an employee’s sense of fairness; the individual compares their perceived value with that of others in similar roles and makes a calculation based on their inputs and outputs.

• Motivation theory that states that effort increases in relation to one’s confidence that the behavior will result in a positive outcome and reward; includes Vroom’s theory.

• Leadership theory in which the leaders’ goal is to serve the needs of their employees; emphasizes the sharing of power.

• Term

  Needs theory
  SHRM Learning System © 2025

  Motivation theory that states that individuals are motivated by a desire to satisfy certain needs and that understanding these needs allows leaders to offer the right incentives and create the most motivational external environments; includes self-determination and theories of Maslow, Herzberg, and McClelland.