Chapter 11

What is meant by an authentic leader?

A leader who is passionate about company objectives, models corporate values in the workplace, and forms strong relationships with stakeholder

Which of the following characteristics relates to situational leadership theory?

A leadership model whose premise is that a leader's style should be contingent on subordinates' competence and commitment

What is path-goal theory?

A model concerned with how a leader affects employees' perceptions of their personal and work goals and the paths to goal attainment

referent 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

it is still too commonly used in business settings

Although regulations and laws sharply limit a leader's ability to use coercive power, it is a fair assessment that

job-centered leaders

Less- effective managers, who are mostly directive in their approaches and more concerned with closely supervising employees, explaining work procedures, and monitoring progress in task accomplishment.

Which of the following characteristics relates to reward power?

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

Which of the following characteristics relates to information power?

Power that is a result of having access to important information that is not common knowledge, or of having the ability to control the flow of information to and from others

expert power

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

affiliative

The First Lady's primary source of power is

What is meant by charisma?

The ability to inspire admiration, respect, loyalty, and a desire to emulate, based on some intangible set of personality traits; a personal source of powerThis answer is correct.

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

Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory

What name is given to a description of how leaders develop "unique" working relationships with each of their employees, based on the nature of their social exchanges?

personal power

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?

Emotional intelligence

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?

Employee-centered leaders

What name is given to the most effective managers, who engage in both dimensions of leadership behaviors by getting employees involved in the operation of their departments or divisions in a positive and constructive manner, setting general goals, providing fairly loose supervision, and recognizing employees' contributions?

Organizational power

What term describes a person's ability to satisfy or deny satisfaction of another's need, based on a formal contractual relationship between an organization and the individual?

Empowerment

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

Contingency theory

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

personal sources of power are essential

When extra effort is required from employees and managers have no control over rewards and punishments and close supervision is not practical

Transactional leadership

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?

Affiliative power

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?

information 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

servant leader

a leader who leads by examples and forms strong relationships with employees

transformational leadership

a style that goes beyond mere exchange relationships by inspiring employees to look beyond their own self-interests and by generating awareness and acceptance of the group's purpose and mission