Ch. 7

Leaders who believe that thoughtful attention to the needs of the people for satisfying relationships leads to a comfortable, friendly organization atmosphere and work tempo have which type of leadership style?

Country Club Management

Which of the following building blocks of leader behavior is/are easiest to change?

Experience

At which organizational level would an individual need allocate capital to maximize business success?

Group manager

According to the Leadership Grid, the most effective leaders have a _____ concern for people and a ____ concern for production.

High, High

Which type of leadership style suggests that exertion of minimal effort to get required work done is appropriate to sustain organization management?

Impoverished Management

Match the elements of a leadership skill (in the left column) with their descriptions (in the right column). Instructions

Knowledge - Good leaders understand when and to whom a particular task should be delegated.

Early research on leader behavior at Ohio State University was completed using a questionnaire called the ______, ______ Description Questionnaire.

Leader or Leadership Behavior or Behaviour

Match the aspects of leadership (in the left column) with their descriptions (in the right column). Instructions....

Leadership Behavior - Concerns a specific action, such as "setting specific performance goals for team members" Leadership Skill - Consists of three components, which include a well-defined body of knowledge, a set of related behaviors, and clear criteria of competent performance

Which of the following is not one of the four major categories identified by Hogan and Warrenfelz that comprise most competency models?

Organizational skills

Which method of research was central to the early research on leader behavior at Ohio State University?

Questionnaires

Which of the following was not one of the four categories of leadership behaviors identified in the University of Michigan studies?

Subordinate control

True or false: Leadership behaviors are a function of intelligence, personality traits, emotional intelligence, values, attitudes, interests, knowledge, and experience.

True Reason: This is true. Leadership behaviors (which include skills and competencies) are a function of intelligence, personality traits, emotional intelligence, values, attitudes, interests, knowledge, and experience. The factors in the bottom layer of blocks are relatively difficult to change, and they predispose a leader to act in distinctive ways.

Research at the University of Michigan assumes that job-centered and employee-centered behaviors are

at opposite ends of a single continuum of leadership behavior.

According to the Ohio State studies, ________ refers to how friendly and supportive a leader is to subordinates.

consideration

In contrast to researchers at the University of Michigan, researchers at Ohio State believed that _____.

consideration and initiating structure were independent continua

Competency models

describe the behaviors and skills managers need to exhibit if an organization is to be successful.

How much a leader emphasizes meeting work goals and accomplishing tasks is referred to as ________

initiating structure

According to the University of Michigan studies, behaviors where the leader shows concern for subordinates refers to

leader support

Concern for people and concern for production are the two dimensions of the

leadership grid

The leadership behavior model that provides a type of road map for people wanting to occupy that top leadership positions in an organization is called the

leadership pipelines