Exam three mgmt 3000 Change& Leadership

Most negative reaction to a purposef change attempt is

Active resistance

Researchers found all the big five personality traits to be related to leader emergence and leader effectiveness except

Agreeableness

Which of the following statements regarding leader - member exchange relationships is incorrect?

All employees would like to have a positive relationship with their leader.

Which of the following statements regarding performance in organizational changes is incorrect

Are successful firms find it easier to change those performing poorly

The following is not a stage of Lewins model of plan change?

Assess

When leaders, make decisions alone without involving employees in the decision making process, they are using

Authoritarian decision making

The trait approach to leadership examines all the following factors except

Behavior

Openness is

Being curious, original, intellectual, creative and receptive to new ideas

Extroversion is

Being outgoing, talkative, sociable, and enjoying Social Situations

Being organized, systematic, punctual, achievement oriented, and dependable are characteristics of the personality trait

Conscientiousness

People oriented behaviors are also called

Consideration

The following statements guarding the second stage of planned changes is incorrect?

Create a big win because people need to see that things are happening

Which of the following statements regarding the final stage of plan changes incorrect?

Declare victory early and making the change and get into a routine

Which of the following statements regarding overcoming resistance to your proposals is incorrect?

Do not listen to naysayers.

Research on decision-making style finds

Employees care more about the overall participativeNess of the original climate than involvement in every single decision

In Democratic decision making

Employees participate in the making of the decision

Search findings of leader behavior suggest

Extremely high levels of lead or task oriented behaviors may lead to burnout in employees

Big five personality trait ___________ The strongest relationship to both leader emergency later effectiveness.

Extroversion

Distance to change is never a positive force for an organization. True or false?

False

Employees with more complete information or no more committed to the change effort and those who have less then complete information. True or false?

False

People do not welcome change weather is favorable to them or not. True or false?

False

If leader -subordinate relations are good, position power is high and task is structure, the situation would be categorized as

Favorable

Servant leaders

Feel an obligation to their employees, customers and larger community

People resist change for the following reasons except

Feelings of certainty

Research on Fielders contingency theory indicates which of the following

Fielders theory is important because it recognizes the importance of leadership context

Which of the following statements related to the unfreezing stage of plan change in correct?

Get everyone on board as soon as the changes initiated

She's the following is an incorrect statement about leader-member exchange (LMX) theory?

Hi LMX relationships involve an active dislike between the leader and member

In situations of medium favorableness,

High LPC leaders are effective

Which of the following statements regarding house path-goal theory of leadership is incorrect?

House path-goal theory of motivation is based on the equity theory of motivation

Task-Oriented behaviors are also called

Initiating structure

Falling or examples of the big five personality traits except?

Intelligence

Research on transformational and transactional leadership shows all the following except

Is actionable liters increase the intrinsic motivation of their followers

Servant leadership

Is the leadership approach that defines the leaders role as serving the needs of others

Which of the following statements regarding self-esteem and leadership is incorrect?

Leaders with high self-esteem punish their subordinantes less effectively, when such punishment is due, than leaders with lower self-esteem

The leadership decision tree

Leads to the determination of how much involvement leader should seek in making decisions

Which one of the following traits is not a tool that transformational leaders used to influence employees and create commitment to the company goals?

Management by exception

Which of the following statements regarding factors of changing an organization is incorrect

Manufacturing jobs have been outsourced but knowledge based jobs are largely safe from such movement

Situational favorableness include all the following conditions except

Motivation level

Which of the following statements regarding intelligence is incorrect?

One's intelligence is the strongest predictor of leadership performance

Which of the following statements regarding reasons and plays resist change is correct?

Or is this change that negatively impact or influence and power in the firm

Which of the following statements regarding change is incorrect?

Organizational change only takes a few forms

Leaders to ensure their employees take part in decision-making have an_________ leadership style

Participative

Being distracted by changes without voicing your opinion is

Passive resistance

Leadership has an explicit focus on all the following factors except

Paternalism

All the following statements regarding reasons and please resist change or correct except

People with negative self-concept view change as an opportunity

Authentic leadership

Refers to effective leaders who stay true to themselves

Insuring that change becomes permanent and the new procedures become the norm is what stage of the Lewins model a planned change?

Refreeze

Expectancy theory suggests individuals are motivated when all of the following conditions are met except

Rewards leave the high-performance

In achievement-oriented leader

Sets goals for employees encourages them to reach their goals

If jobs are boring and repetitive or task are stressful, the ______ style of leadership is most effective

Supportive

All the following factors are important when Unfreezing for plan change except

Taking things slowly: do not suggest a crisis is imminent

Two big categories of leader behaviors are

Task oriented and people oriented structures

Which of the statements regarding research on houses path-goal theory is correct?

The theory's greatest contribution is the importance of the leaders ability to change styles depending on the circumstances

The earliest approach to the study of leadership was

The trait approach

Which of the following is not a key characteristic of authentic leaders?

They have no set priorities

______________________________________ leaders lead employees by aligning employee goals with leaders goals.

Transactional

Most research on leadership has been conducted on which of the following tangency theories of leadership?

Transformational leadership theory

Oriented behaviors include

Treating employees with respect

Organizational change can either be radical or incremental

True

Service indicate that resistant to change is one of the top two reasons why change efforts within organizations fail. True or false?

True

Those employees who feel they can perform well under a new system likely be more committed to change. True or false?

True

The key factor in the effectiveness of transformational leaders is

Trust

If liter-subordinate relations are poor, position power is low, and task is unstructured, the situation would be categorized as

Unfavorable

Making sure that organizational members are ready and receptive to change is what step of the Lewins model?

Unfreeze

What is the first step in Lewins model a plan change?

Unfreeze

Of the following statements regarding resistant to change or correct except

When people react negatively to change their experience negative emotions, but are more likely to leave the firm think they would be in a firm does not under going organizational change

All the statements guarding replacing the graphics and their impact on change or correct except an older workforce

Will likely cause flexible work hours and job sharing to diminish as older people like the structure of set work hours

If you just like working with the person and do not care for them on a personal level either,

You would have a low least preferred coworker score