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A manager who cares neither about people nor about production would be a __________ manager on the Leadership Grid.

1,1

According to the Leadership Grid, a manager who is not concerned about production but exhibits high concern for people would be a ____ manager on the grid.

1,9

A middle-of-the-road manager would be a __________ manager on the Leadership Grid.

5,5

Recent renewed interest in the trait approach to leadership has suggested all of the following are characteristics of leaders EXCEPT

All of these are correct.

Which of the following descriptions applies more to leadership than to management?

Developing a vision of the future

Paul, a new hire in the traffic department of an advertising agency, has little confidence in his ability and believes he only got the job because his uncle is the owner of the firm. According to the path-goal theory of leadership, what type of leadership style is Paul most likely to prefer?

Directive

The LPC theory of leadership was developed by

Fred Fiedler.

__________ is the ability to affect the perceptions, beliefs, attitudes, motivation, and/or behaviors of others.

Influence

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Vroom's decision tree approach?

It assumes a high level of participation in decision making is best for all situations.

According to your text, what was the failure of the behavioral approach to studying leadership?

It tended to specify a set of leader behaviors that would lead to effectiveness in all situations.

In LPC theory, what factor is presumed to have the biggest effect on the favorableness of a situation?

Leader-member relations

Vroom's decision tree approach to leadership focuses on which aspect of leader behavior?

Subordinate participation in decision making

Which of the following is NOT a part of initiating-structure behavior, as identified in the Ohio State leadership studies?

There is mutual trust and respect between the leader and subordinate.

Researchers at Ohio State investigating the issue of stability of leader behaviors over time found that

an individual's leadership pattern did not change much in similar situations.

The Ohio State studies and the Leadership Grid are associated with the ____ approach to leadership.

behavioral

Leadership is

both a process and a property.

According to the path-goal theory, leaders can affect subordinates' performance by

clarifying what behaviors will lead to desired rewards.

According to Vroom, a manager who makes the decision alone and then announces or "sells" it to the group is using a __________ style of subordinate participation.

decide

The goal of the behavioral approach to the study of leadership was to

determine what behaviors were associated with effective leadership.

Path-goal theory has its roots in the ____ theory of motivation.

expectancy

The goal of the Michigan leadership studies was to determine the pattern of leadership behaviors that results in effective

group performance.

One conclusion of the Ohio State studies was that a leader who clearly defines the leader-subordinate roles so that subordinates know what is expected of them is exhibiting

initiating-structure behavior.

Early studies of leadership focused on the traits, or personal characteristics, of leaders. Later research shifted to examine actual

leader behavior.

Position power is considered to be low when the

leader must get job assignments approved by someone else.

The path-goal theory and the LPC model are illustrative of the perspective in which

leadership effectiveness depends on characteristics of the situation.

In the LPC theory, the degree of task or relationship motivation is measured by the

least-preferred coworker scale.

The textbook makes several distinctions between management and leadership. These distinctions include all of the following EXCEPT

management is more important in regard to creating and directing change.

According to the path-goal theory of leadership, the two types of situational factors that influence how leaders should behave are

personal characteristics of the subordinates and environmental characteristics.

A major difference between the behavioral approach and the LPC theory of leadership is that

the LPC theory contends that a leader's effectiveness depends on the situation.

Tasks that are complex, nonroutine, and ambiguous are considered to be

unstructured


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