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The first researcher to formally recognize the importance of the leader, follower, and situation in the leadership process was

Fred Fiedler.

Identify a true statement about the rational and emotional aspects of leadership.

Leadership involves both the rational and emotional sides of human experience.

Which of the following best describes a leader?

inspirational

The interactional framework takes Hollander's transactional approach to leadership one step further by additionally exploring

interactions.

According to the text, which is true of leadership?

It is a result of the interaction between a leader and followers.

Management is often associated with which of the following terms?

Planning

Which of the following is true of college professors who are considered leaders?

They are both born and made.

How Parrado managed to convince the survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash to stage and support the final expedition would be most likely examined by researchers who define leadership as which of the following?

influencing an organized group toward accomplishing its goals

Task, stress, and the environment are all part of which component of the interactional framework?

situation

Which of the following is a definition of leadership that appears to exclude any kind of coercion as a leadership tool?

An interpersonal relation in which others comply because they want to, not because they have to.

Which is true of in-groups?

Commitment to leaders is relatively high among members of the in-group.

Which leader is most likely to gain the respect of followers?

an individual whose followers have participated in the selection of the leader

Which was a basic issue that emerged among the survivors of the 1972 plane crash in the Andes mountains?

dealing with tensions between individual and group goals

Adolf Hitler, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Reverend Jim Jones can all be described as which type of leader?

emotional

The definition of leadership that highlights the directing and controlling aspects of leadership may de-emphasize which aspects of leadership?

emotional

Which type of follower is likely to be a mediocre performer who is rarely committed to the group's work goals?

pragmatist

Which of the following refers to the intriguing finding that female candidates for an executive position are more likely to be hired than equally qualified male candidates when an organization's performance is declining?

the glass cliff

Which of the following is not an area of study by leadership researchers?

the personality of followers

Which definition of leadership appears to exclude informal leadership?

the process by which an agent induces a subordinate to behave in a desired manner

Which of the following is not an example of how researchers have defined leadership?

the success and failure of an organization