Leadership and Change Exam 1

__________ power is a function of the amount of knowledge one possesses relative to the rest of the members of a group.

expert

Leadership behavior enacted by individuals who take action to maintain ethical standards in the face of questionable moral behaviors by higher-ups is referred to as

upward ethical leadership

Unlike the role approach, the constructionist approach

views leadership as combined acts of leading and following by different individuals.

Leadership development is enhanced when an experience involves three processes, which are

Action, Observation, Reflection

Which of the following statements is true of legitimate power?

It means that a leader has authority because she or he has been assigned a particular role in an organization.

Identify a true statement about socialized power.

It often involves an empowering, rather than an autocratic, style of management and leadership.

Which of the following is a conventional distinction between managers and leaders?

Managers administer, while leaders innovate.

A personal relationship in which a more experienced mentor (usually someone two to four levels higher in an organization) acts as a guide, role model, and sponsor of a less experienced protégé is known as

Mentoring

Which of the following terms describes a kind of learning between an individual and the environment in which learners seek relatively little feedback that may significantly confront their fundamental ideas or actions?

Single-loop learning

Simone, a senior sales manager at ReadMe Inc., cares about developing the skills of her teammates and works beside them as a role model. In the context of the five fundamental archetypes of leadership, she most likely belongs to the

Teacher-Mentor archetype.

According to Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership, which of the following statements is true about pragmatist followers?

They are mediocre performers.

Which of the following statements is true of managers with the Theory Y orientation?

They reflect a view that most people are intrinsically motivated by their work.

Identify a true statement about passive followers in the context of Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership.

They require constant direction because they lack initiative and a sense of responsibility.

What are the four qualities of leadership that engender trust according to Bennis and Goldsmith?

Vision, empathy, consistency, and integrity

According to the fundamental archetypes of leadership, a __________ works on developing something that will benefit all the members in an organization.

Visionary-Alchemist

People in societies exhibiting a large degree of power distance

accept a hierarchical order in which everybody has a place and that needs no further justification.

In the context of perception, which of the following terms is best described as the explanations people develop for the characteristics, behaviors, or actions to which they attend?

attribution

The ability to control others through the fear of punishment or the loss of valued outcomes is known as

coercive power

__________ occurs when agents ask targets to participate in planning an activity.

consultation

In the context of the interactional framework, ideal followers are most likely to be described as

cooperative

Which of the following words is most often associated with the word "management"?

efficiency

Terrorists may call themselves "freedom fighters," and firing someone may be referred to as "letting him or her go." These are both examples of

euphemistic labeling

The interactional framework for analyzing leadership includes

followers, leaders, and situations.

The tendency to overestimate the dispositional causes of behavior and underestimate the environmental causes when others fail is called

fundamental attribution error

An authentic leader will most likely

have a realistic self-perception

Dr. Jonathon realizes that his patient is suffering from a highly contagious disease that is likely to pose a threat to the entire city. However, he is uncertain about sharing this information with city officials to protect his patient's privacy. In this scenario, which of the following ethical dilemmas does the doctor most likely face?

individual versus community

According to leadership researchers, leadership

is an interpersonal relation in which others comply because they want to.

Which of the following best describes the term "attribution of blame"?

justifying immoral behavior by claiming it was caused by someone else's actions

Values are most likely

learned through the socialization process

Legitimizing tactics most likely occur when agents

make requests based on their position or authority.

People tend to use rational tactics when

parties are relatively equal in power.

Craig, a marketing manager at HeliZone Inc., rarely takes initiative or suggests new ideas during project meetings. He does his work half-heartedly and needs to be guided by his manager on a regular basis. According to Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership, Craig most likely is a(n)

passive follower

People do not see everything that happens in a particular leadership situation, nor do they hear everything; instead they are selective in what they attend to and what they, in turn, understand. A phenomenon that demonstrates this selectivity is called

perceptual set

Which of the following is an intrinsic reward?

personal growth

Which of the following is an approach, developed and popularized by Covey, which postulates a fundamental interdependence between the personal, the interpersonal, the managerial, and the organizational levels of leadership?

principle-centered leadership

__________ is most likely to be associated with the role friendships play in making things happen.

referent power

__________ occurs when people's expectations or predictions play a causal role in bringing about the events they predict.

self-fulfilling prophecy

Which of the following is a phenomenon that refers to situations in which people feel themselves at risk of being judged by others holding negative images about them?

stereotype threat

People who are observing an action are much more likely than the actor to make the fundamental attribution error. This is called

the actor/observer difference.

Leaders who pull people together on the basis of shared beliefs and a common sense of organizational purpose and belonging are most likely the ones

who create a compelling vision.