Management 14

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?

Machiavellianism

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

Transactional leadership

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

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.

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.

False

_______ is NOT a relationship-oriented behavior.

Political maneuvering

__________ 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.

Reward

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

The LMX focuses only on the behaviors or traits of leaders.

Which of the following is NOT a key quality displayed by humble leaders?

low self-awareness

Which of the following is NOT one of the eight leadership styles proposed by the revised path-goal theory?

servant leadership