Exam 5 - Chapters 12-13

Sharing power, via empowerment, is a means for increasing your own power.

True

Unlike other elements of OB, leadership is not influenced by situational factors.

True

One's reputation is an example of ________ power.

referent

The primary purpose of _________ behaviors is to enhance employees' skills and to create positive work relationships among coworkers and between the leader and his or her employees.

relationship-oriented

Inspirational motivation involves establishing an attractive vision, the use of emotional arguments, and exhibition of optimism and enthusiasm.

True

One of the employee characteristics in House's path-goal model is need for achievement.

True

Emotional intelligence has been shown by research to have a large, positive, and significant association with leadership effectiveness.

False

In effective organizations, politics have been eliminated.

False

Managers, for instance, have personal power because they control your pay, your work assignments, your hiring and firing, and your evaluations. In contrast, expert and referent are forms of personal power, which you possess independent of your position or job.

False

Meetings should be held as scheduled, whether or not there is a goal for a meeting.

False

Research has shown that generally expert and referent power have a positive effect on work outcomes, reward and legitimate power have a slightly negative effect, and coercive power has a strongly negative effect.

False

Strategic skills are the most important to managers at middle levels of the organization.

False

________ might be any attempt to control or manipulate the images related to a person, organization, or idea.

Impression management

________ is putting someone in a good mood prior to making a request.

Ingratiation

_________ are the dimensions of situational control in Fiedler's model.

Leader-member relations, task structure, and position power

Which of the following interpersonal traits has research shown to have a negative relationship with leadership effectiveness?

Machiavellianism

According to research, which of the following statements about men's and women's leadership traits is true?

Men are more autocratic than women.

__________ is based on transferring authority and responsibilities from management to employees.

Structural empowerment

___________ focuses on clarifying employees' role and task requirements and providing followers with positive and negative rewards contingent on performance.

Transformational leadership

A key variable in Fiedler's model is situational control, which is composed of leader-member relations, task structure, and the leader's position power.

True

Coalition tactics are considered one of the "hard" influence tactics.

True

Consideration involves leader behavior associated with creating mutual respect or trust and focuses on a concern for group members' needs and desires.

True

Empowerment not only positively affects job performance, it also tends to increase citizenship behaviors and job satisfaction and decrease turnover intentions.

True

Which of the following is not one of the key leader behaviors that are part of transformational leadership?

creating an in-group

When a leader is encouraging employees to question the status quo and seek innovative and creative solutions to organizational problems, he or she is engaging in

intellectual stimulation.

When a leader is resolving disputes, he or she is engaging in ________ behaviors.

interaction-facilitation

Leaders increase psychological empowerment by engaging in behaviors that enhance perceptions of

meaningfulness, self-determination, competence, and impact.

Leader-member exchange theory focuses on the leader's

relationships with followers.

The three primary reactions people have to attempts to manage or influence them are

resistance, compliance, or commitment.

A person who is indifferent to and ignores another's influence attempt is exhibiting

resistance.