Ch.11 Loes

Which of the following refers to power that is derived by virtue of a person's association with someone else who has some source of power?

Affiliative power

Which of the following refers to an organizationally based source of power derived from a leader's control over punishments or the capacity to deny rewards?

Coercive power

What term describes the suggestion that successful leadership requires matching leaders with primarily stable leadership styles to the demands of the situation?

Contingency theory

What name is given to the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically?

Emotional intelligence

What term describes the process of providing employees with the ability to contribute input and take on responsibilities for organizational decisions?

Empowerment

reward power?

Organizational power that stems from a person's ability to bestow rewards

What name is given to a person's ability to satisfy or deny satisfaction of another's need, based on an interpersonal relationship between individuals or on his or her personal characteristics?

Personal power

Which of the following refers to a person's capacity to influence the behavior and attitudes of others?

Power

What is meant by legitimate power?

The influence that comes from a person's formal position in an organization and the authority that accompanies that position

Which of the following characteristics relates to leadership?

The process of influencing the activities of an individual or a group toward the achievement of a goal

Which of the following refers to a more traditional approach in which managers engage in both task- and consideration-oriented behaviors in an exchange manner?

Transactional leadership

There is increasing evidence that transformational leaders

exist at all levels in organizational hierarchies and in a broad range of organizations.

Professors, computer geniuses, mechanics, airline pilots, and ship captains supposedly have a lot of

expert power.

You are a computer whiz, and you have installed some software that monitors all incoming and outgoing company emails. You have no formal understanding of leadership theory, but you clearly understand

information power.

A personal source of power that a leader possesses when he or she is admired by employees who identify with the leader is called

referent power.