quiz Management

________ leadership helps employees pursue organizational goals over self-interests.

Transformational

The best leaders display both transactional and transformational leadership styles

True - Transactional leadership is an essential prerequisite to effective leadership, and the best leaders learn to display both transactional and transformational styles of leadership to some degree.

Employees value high self-awareness, appreciation of others, and openness to feedback which are characteristics of a ________ leader.

humble

In the ________ leadership model, a leader makes desirable rewards available in the workplace and clarifies how followers can obtain them.

path-goal

Medical knowledge possessed by doctors results in their ________ power.

Expert

________ leadership focuses on clarifying employees' roles and task requirements and providing rewards and punishments contingent on performance.

Transactional

Fiedler's contingency leadership model argues that leadership behaviors should be primarily determined by position power. Group starts

False - 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.

Caasi easily influences her co-workers, but not usually for the best. She stirs up controversy and usually spins the conversation to make herself look better. Because Caasi thinks highly of herself and seeks personal power, she could be described as having psychopathy.

False- Narcissism is defined as "a self-centered perspective, feelings of superiority, and a drive for personal power and glory." Psychopathy is characterized by lack of concern for others, impulsive behavior, and a dearth of remorse when the psychopath's actions harm others.

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

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.

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.

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

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. Group starts

False- The primary purpose of task-oriented leadership behavior is to ensure that human, physical, and other resources are used efficiently and effectively to accomplish the group's or organization's goals.

Marina 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. Group starts

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

A cynical leader who believes the ends justify the means and has no qualms about manipulating people should be described as having the trait of

Machiavellianism.

________ power, which all managers have, is power that results from a managers' authority to offer praise and pay raises, even promotions to their subordinates.

Reward

________ leaders focus on providing increased service to others—meeting the goals of both followers and the organization—rather than to themselves.

Servant

When you become a manager, what should you remember about the behavioral approaches to leadership?

To be an effective leader, behaviors should be selected that match the situation.

The leader-member exchange (LMX) model of leadership posits that

each relationship between leaders and followers is distinctive.

As a leader, Ervan mentors new employees, encourages socialization, and worries more about building trust than building profits. Ervan is probably a ________ leader.

employee-centered

Supportive, value-based, and work facilitation are examples of the ________ element in House's revised path-goal leadership model.

leader behaviors

Which of the following is most often used to influence others?

rational persuasion