Leadership Ch. 1

Relational Approach

In the 1990s, researchers began examining the nature of relations between leaders and followers.

Which of the following is NOT true about leadership? Leadership is a skill. Leadership is a role. Leadership is a behavior. Leadership is an ability.

Leadership is a role.

leader-member exchange (LMX) theory.

Part of the relational approach predicts that high-quality relations generate more positive leader outcomes than low-quality relations.

______ leadership focuses on their followers' needs in order to help these followers become more autonomous and knowledgeable. Adaptive Servant Spiritual Authentic

Servant

______ leadership considers how leaders use values, a sense of "calling," and membership to motivate followers. Adaptive Servant Spiritual Authentic

Spiritual

Contingency theory focuses on the match between the leader's style and specific situational variables. True False

True

Path-goal theory examines how leaders use employee motivation to enhance performance and satisfaction. True False

True

Spiritual leadership

considers how leaders use values, a sense of "calling," and membership to motivate followers

What three conditions are needed for the dark side of leadership to exist? susceptible leader, destructive followers, and a conducive environment destructive leader, conducive followers, and a susceptible environment destructive leader, susceptible followers, and a conducive environment conducive leader, susceptible followers, and a destructive environment

destructive leader, susceptible followers, and a conducive environment

Servant leadership

emphasizes the "caring principle" with leaders as "servants" who focus on their followers' needs in order to help these followers become more autonomous, knowledgeable, and like servants themselves.

Adaptive leadership

examines how leaders help people address problems, face challenges, and adapt to change. Adaptive leadership stresses that the leaders don't solve the problems, but rather encourage others to do the problem solving and adapt to change.

path-goal theory

examines how leaders use employee motivation to enhance performance and satisfaction.

contingency theory

focuses on the match between the leader's style and specific situational variables.

Leader-member exchange (LMX) theory predicts that ___________. high-quality relations generate more positive leader outcomes than high-quality relations high-quality relations generate more negative leader outcomes than low-quality relations low-quality relations generate more positive leader outcomes than low-quality relations high-quality relations generate more positive leader outcomes than low-quality relations

high-quality relations generate more positive leader outcomes than low-quality relations

Authentic leadership

is an approach that looks at the authenticity of leaders and their leadership and is currently enjoying strong interest.

"New Leadership" Approach

leadership studies generated visionary or charismatic leadership theories.

One distinction between leaders and managers is that ___________. managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right thing managers are people who do the right thing, and leaders are people who do things right managers are people who do things wrong, and leaders are people who do things right managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who try to do right

managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right thing

transformational leadership theory

part of the "New Leadership" Approach which describes leadership as a process that changes people and organizations.

situational approach

path-goal theory & contingency theory

Behavior approach

theories hit their heyday in the early 1960s with Blake and Moulton's (1964) work exploring how managers use task and relationship behaviors in the organizational setting.

______ leadership examines how leaders help people address problems, face challenges, and adapt to change. Adaptive Servant Spiritual Authentic

Adaptive

Trait approach theories explore how managers use task and relationship behaviors in the organizational setting. True False

False

trait approach theories

were called "Great Man" theories because they focused on identifying the innate qualities and characteristics possessed by great social, political, and military leaders such as Catherine the Great, Mohandas Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Moses, and Joan of Arc.

Gender-based studies

which have gained much momentum as women continue to become more dominant in the workforce, especially on a global level, view how one's gender affects and differentiates one's leadership.