Wallace Leadership Final
Research on gender and leadership gained traction in the ___.
1970s
___ refers to a leader's self-efficacy or the belief that they have the ability to accomplish a task.
Confidence
According the the SLII model, which developmental level represents followers who have some ability to complete a task but lack motivation to actually complete the task?
D2
____ is the optimal way for organizations to handle diversity.
Inclusion
____ refers to a leader who uses any combination of the five basic styles for the purpose of personal achievement.
Opportunism
The trait approach focuses primarily on the leader, not on the followers or the situation.
True
Paternalism/maternalism refers to a leader who is ___.
a benevolent dictator
Technical skills are the ___.
ability to work with things
The adaptive leadership process suggests that effective leaders use ____ leadership behaviors for adaptive changes.
adaptive
The origins of the study of leadership can be traced back to ____.
ancient greeks
Theoretical formulations of leadership ethics ____.
are a relatively new topic of scholarly research
One cannot be a leader without being ______.
aware of one's values
Why is followership difficult to define?
because it conjures up different meanings for different people
In the SLII model, leaders evaluate how competent and ___ followers are toward performing a task.
committed
According to Chaleff, followers need to have the ______ to support and challenge the leader.
courage
Inclusive leadership requires that leaders ____.
create environments in which differences are valued and incorporated into the main work
Social competence in emotional intelligence includes ____.
empathy
Research from the University of Michigan studies identified which two types of leadership behaviors?
employee and production orientation
Michi takes a Big Five personality assessment. His results are high conscientiousness and openness, moderate agreeableness, and low neuroticism and extraversion. Which trait should Michi focus on improving to increase his readiness for a leadership position?
extraversion
Followers with an external locus of control believe that ___.
fate is in charge of life's events
Adaptive leadership is ___.
follower centered
Which outcome of servant leadership suggests that followers are often likely to become servant leaders themselves?
follower performance and growth
According to the servant leadership approach, leaders should be held accountable for failing to anticipate future trends and problems in the organization because leaders should possess ___.
foresight
Women who are promoted to leadership positions that place them in precarious situations with gender risk are in positions called the ____.
glass cliff
The number of women of color in U.S. Congress ____.
has risen but is still lower than white females in Congress
The adaptive leader is conceptualized as one who ___.
helps followers learn new ways to deal with inevitable changes
Team leaders need to construct a mental model to ___.
identify problems and solutions within the team
Which factor of transformational leadership supports followers as they try new approaches and develop innovative ways of dealing with organizational issues?
intellectual stimulation
A supervisory-level manager of a company who applies the level of technical skills to the degree delineated in Katz's model ____.
is more "hands-on" with producing the company's product than interacting with staff.
The "natural leader" trait definition of leadership ______.
is restricted to those with inborn talent, qualities, or characteristics.
The situational approach ____.
is used widely in leadership training and development
Defining leadership as a process means _____.
it is a transactional event between leader and followers
Teamwork is an example of ______ decision making.
lateral
In path-goal theory, the main components are ___.
leader behaviors, follower characteristics, task characteristics, and motivation
Path-goal theory was developed to explain how ___.
leaders motivate followers to be satisfied and successful in their work
During the acquaintance phase of leadership development, leader-member exchanges are generally ___.
medium quality
In a major review in 1948, Stogdill suggested ____.
no consistent set of traits differentiates leaders from nonleaders
Charismatic leadership is thought to be ___.
reserved for a gifted few
Ethics is concerned with ____.
right and wrong
Compassion refers to a leader's ______.
sensitivity toward others and their willingness to help
A charismatic leader would most likely exhibit which type of behavior?
serve as a strong role model with high expectations for followers
An out-group member would most likely be characterized by which type of behavior?
strict adherence to role responsibilities
Leaders who are friendly and approachable are using ___ leadership behaviors.
supportive
Teamwork success requires an organizational culture that ______.
supports lateral decision making
According to Katz, the most important leadership skills for lower-levels of management are ______.
technical and human skills
The term heterarchy refers to ____.
the dynamic and fluid shifts in power among team members
One of the underlying assumptions of expectancy theory is that followers will be motivated if they believe ___.
they are capable of performing their job
Transformational leadership often incorporates which types of leadership?
visionary and charismatic
Women were found to be more effective than men ___.
when in middle-management positions
A barrier to women's advancement in leadership position is ____.
women are less likely to promote themselves for leadership positions