Management 8 Questions

According to the Capture Your Flag video, Simon Sinek says that at the top of the organization, the people have all of the ___________; at the bottom they have all of the __________.

Authority; context

Leadership activities typically include all of the following, except:

Budgeting

The ability to be a starting quarterback in the NFL is extremely rare. What type of power are these players able to utilize?

Expert Power

The development of future leaders is associated with which leadership trend?

Forward-thinking leaders

Being concerned for the well-being of followers and committing personal attention to each follower is associated with which of the Four I's of Transformational Leadership?

Individualized consideration

What is the ability to have an effect on the development or behavior of someone or something?

Influence

Which of the contemporary theories of leadership has ties to social categorization in how managers and employees interact?

Leader-member exchange

Which variable is the ever-important "lynch pin" in making Contingency Theory work?

Leader-member relations

Activities such as budgeting, organizing, and controlling are typically associated with __________.

Management

According to the video above, Minda Zetlin says the ability of a manager to get into employees' minds and figure out the cues to get them to go in the direction you want involves a healthy amount of ______________.

Manipulation

What employee-based variable in the Situation Leadership model looks at the desire a follower has to complete the tasks?

Motivation

According to the video above, Minda Zetlin says the ability of a manager to get over mistakes and leave them in the past without feeling guilty involves a healthy amount of ____________.

Psychopathy

Based on the _________ of the follower, different leadership styles are going to be more effective.

Readiness level

Celebrities are often used in advertisements and movies because people identify and admire them. What type of power do these celebrities have?

Referent Power

A supervisor concerned with being liked by employees as the primary objective would likely have which behavioral orientation?

Relationship Orientation

What is the amount of control and influence a leader has in a given environment?

Situational Control

If the leader is caring and nurturing toward the employees' needs and well-being, what style of leadership are they demonstrating according to Path-Goal theory?

Supportive

According to the LA Times video on the Wells Fargo scandal, why did employees create accounts customers didn't ask for?

To meet sales goals

Sarbanes-Oxley and other acts like it have begun to require what from organizations and their leaders?

Transparency

Which behavioral theory included the concepts of job-centered leader behavior and employee-centered leader behavior?

University of Michigan study

The point of Path-Goal theory is that leaders are expected to individualize their leadership based on the _________ and the ___________.

employee, context