Chapter 14: Power, Influence, and leadership

Which of the following is FALSE about the leader-member exchange (LMX) model of leadership?

LMX focuses only on the behaviors of traits or leaders

The best leaders display both transactional and transformational leadership styles. True or False

True

Fiedler's contingency leadership model argues that leadership behaviors should be determined by position power only. True or False

false Neither task-motivated nor relationship-motivated leadership style is effective all the time, Fiedler's research concludes, although each is right in certain situations. The contingency leadership model determines if a leader's style is (1) task-oriented or (2) relationship-oriented and if that style is effective for the situation at hand.

Which of the following is considered a "soft" tactic used to influence others? exchange tactics legitimating tactics coalition tactics ingratiating tactics pressure tactics

ingratiating tactics

In the ______ leadership model, a leader makes desirable rewards available in the workplace and clarifies how followers can obtain them. path-goal passive behavioral relationship-oriented transformational

path-goal

_______ is NOT a relationship-oriented behavior. servant leadership political maneuvering empowering leadership consideration ethical leadership

political maneuvering

______ focuses on clarifying employees' roles and task requirements and providing rewards and punishments contingent on performance. Laissez-faire leadership Transactional Leadership participative leadership empowering leadership

transactional leadership

Narcissism is a key positive leadership trait. True or False

False

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people who are competent at something are unable to recognize their own competence. And not only do they fail to recognize their own competence, they're also likely to feel that they actually are incompetent. True or False

False

The primary purpose of relationship-oriented leadership behavior is to ensure that people, equipment, and other resources are used in an efficient way to accomplish the mission of a group or organization. True or False

False

Leadership is the ability to marshal human, informational, and other resources to get something done. True or False

False Power is the ability to marshal human, informational, and other resources to get something done. Leadership is the ability to influence employees to voluntarily pursue organizational goals.

Cynthia is a manager who has poor leader-member relations with her employees who perform unambiguous, easily understood tasks. She should use a task-oriented leadership style. True or False

False The optimal leadership style for poor leader-member relations and high task structure is relationship-oriented leadership.

Which negative trait of some leaders is marked by a cynical view of human nature that condones opportunistic and unethical ways of manipulating people, putting results over principles? glad-handing sociopathy narcissism Machiavellianism psychopathy

Machiavellianism

Which of the following statements is NOT a practical implication of the behavioral approaches to leadership?

There is one best style of leadership

Medical knowledge possessed by doctors results in their ______ power. expert reward legitimate coercive referent

expert

Which of the following is NOT a key quality displayed by humble leaders? appreciation of others openness to feedback appreciation of the greater good low self-awareness low self-focus

low self-awareness

__________ power, which all managers have, is power that results from a manager's authority to offer praise and pay raises, even promotions to his or her subordinates. Coercive reward referent expert legitimate

reward

______ leaders focus on providing increased service to others—meeting the goals of both followers and the organization—rather than to themselves. Support transactional shared servant LMX

servant

Which of the following is NOT one of the eight leadership styles proposed by the revised path-goal theory? representation and networking work facilication value-based servant leadership path-goal clarifying

servant leadership

______ leadership helps employees pursue organizational goals over self-interests. shared service transformational transactional

transformational