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