Organizational leadership Mid-term
Research about emotional intelligence and leadership concludes that:
A leaders mood and associated behaviors affect bottom line performance
Which of the following examples illustrates a method for creating a socially responsible and ethical organization?
ABC Inc. a large industrial group, encourages it's senior managers to set examples for other employees by being fair and just in their actions
Annette team has been able to meet the production target of 20,000 units per year. And the next financial year a net set a target of 25,000 units for the team. Accordingly, the teams individual targets are set to increase. In the context of path-goal theory of leadership effectiveness, Annette is the following the _________ of leader ship.
Achievement oriented style
Charismatic leaders are often characterized as:
Being willing to use unconventional strategies
A Charismatic leader will often
Challenge, pride, and poke other people
Two components of empowerment revealed by research are:
Competence and self-determination
Participative management is likely to work best with the
Competent and intelligent people
Kevin announces that starting next Financial year, 25% of his team member's salary will depend on their performance. His team members had no say in this process. In the context of the normative decision model, Kevin demonstrates _______.
Deciding
The consideration dimension of leadership behavior includes how well the leader creates an environment of______.
Emotional support, friendliness, and trust
Edwin, an engineer in a construction material manufacturing company, always strives to give his best because he is aware that he is contributing to something larger and would be recognized for it . It can be inferred from the given scenario that ______.
Employees who work in an ethical environment tend to be better motivated.
A leader engages in management open it when he______.
Encourages subordinates to voice their opinion
One of the approaches for achieving a socially responsible and ethical organization is to _____.
Engage in philanthropy
According to the law of reciprocity (as it relates to organizational politics),:
Everybody expects to be paid back
Which of the following is not practical justification for practice in corporate social responsibility?
Executives will later be given greater latitude by governmental oversight when moral lapses inevitably occur
An important part of being assertive is to:
Express feelings and opinions forthrightly
Substitutes for leader ship refers to
Factors in the work setting that may make leader ship superfluous
The personalize charismatic leader use his power to
Further his own interests
Grease the CEO of an oil and gas exploration company, decides to buy an oil block, even though experts have warned her of security risk and uncertainty with regard to oil presence. Grace completes the oil deal, and exploration in the block confirms oil presence. Which of the following traits best describes graces actions?
Gutsy
An entrepreneurial leaders is most likely to _____.
Have high enthusiasm and creativity
Kent is an enthusiastic leader, so his enthusiasm is likely to
Help him build relationships with the group
A study of empowerment in a firm with operations in the United States, Mexico, Poland, and India found that empowerment was negatively associated with job satisfaction among the workers in:
India
Intrinsically satisfying work can be a leader ship substitute because such work
Is so self motivating that the worker requires very little leadership
Which of the following is true of leader ship during a crisis
It is important to prevent potential crisis through disaster planning
Tenacity is considered to be an important leadership characteristic because:
It often takes a long time to implement a new program
Tyson as a supervisor for a company in the Agro processing industry. He commands the respect, confidence, and loyalty of group members by virtue of his honest and transparent policies. Tyson is:
It's likely to score high on emotional intelligence
The employees of a company feel that management does not make fair decisions when increasing salaries or promoting people. Which ethical screen is used by the employees to question the decisions of management in the given example?
Justice
A hands on in deeply engaged leader who is talented at developing innovative business strategies is most likely to be strong on which of the following treats or characteristics?
Knowledge of the business
In the Pigmalion effect, group members
Live up to expectations that for them
A consequence of the dependence perspective is that when leaders start losing their ability to control resources, they
Lose power
Roxanne, a manager, applies the dependence perspective toward power when she:
Makes her staff members depended on her to pursue their ideas
A study showed that the attributions of charisma or heavily influenced by:
Members of a persons network
If hands on guidance is carried to the extreme, it can result in ______.
Micromanagement
The higher a unit reports in a firm's hierarchy, the:
More power it requires
In times of crisis, Stacey, and effective leader, addresses the in evitable drop in performance and productivity by:
Pushing her employees to return to their normal work and routines
Martin a senior manager in a company, bribes a government officer to secure a government contract. He justifies his action stating that he acted in the best interest of the company and nobody stopped him. And the Kevin scenario, Martin is justifying his actions by resorting to
Rationalization
Narcissistic CEOs tend to make:
Risk your decisions, often to attain dramatic results that enhance their image
Who among the following is providing sound crisis leader ship?
Ryan who remains calm and stable even when the situation seems most dire
An important way of inspiring people is to______.
Satisfy their higher level needs
The key to being a good follower is to think for oneself and to work well without close supervision. This is referred to as ______.
Self management
A vision deals mostly with
The ability to imagine different and better conditions and ways to achieve them
A Duke University survey about executive leader ship found that CEOs can influence leader ship, but only if
The leader is perceived to be responsible and inspirational
A consulting with our collaborative decision making style is likely to bring about the best results when:
The leader needs information from team members to solve the problem in hand
Which of the following is true of a delegating decision making a style?
The leader works behind the scene to provide resources and encouragement
Which of the following serves as an example of evidence base leader ship?
The management decides to refer to best management practices from the past to find a solution to the issue at hand
Alfred intends to follow a directive style of leadership among his team members. In the context of path-goal theory of leader ship effectiveness, which of the following situations would have made Alfred stick to a directive leader ship style?
The team is given orders to improve its performance; however, the exact sales revenue that the team should bring in is unclear.
A recommended approach for understanding the impact of leader ship on performance is to ask
Under what conditions do leaders make a difference?
Blue Inc., a highly profitable consumer goods manufacturing company, invests in a number of social responsibility initiatives that intern generate profit for the company. Which feature of corporate and social performance is illustrated in the given scenario?
Virtuous circle
Stephen, a CEO of an automotive company, addressed his Employees in his companies annual meeting. He remarked that the company should acquire 60% of the global market share and the next 10 years, and continue to provide quality products and services to our consumers. Steven is acting as a:
Visionary leader
Which of the following is not an excepted substitute for leader ship in the modern work environment?
Work that has heavy deadline pressure
Charismatic leaders are likely to cultivate relationships with the group members by means of
impression management
According to an analysis of a group of studies, in terms of having an impact on company performance the leader was about as important as the
industry in which the company operated.
Passion for the work on the part of a leader often expresses itself as a(n)
obsession for achieving company goals
Without appropriate _____, the leader can rarely influence the actions of group members
performance feedback