Leadership Quizzes

What is the process by which leaders' influence are transmitted to followers down from the top-level to each subsequent level

Cascading Effect

____ is the most common outcomes stemming from the use of an influence

Compliance

"It's not what you know, it's who you know" is an example of ____ power

Connection

Transformational leadership behaviors include all of the following behaviors except

Participative

As a manager, you can influence people to do things they normally would not have done through your used of ___ power, which is derived form top management

Position

One of the dimensions along which all influence tactics differ includes

Positive/ Negative

What theories describe the attributes and behaviors that leaders should exhibit in certain conditions to be effective

Prescriptive

All of the following are examples of position power except

REFERENT

according to the Ohio State studies, ____ refers to those leader behaviors related to viewing and treating employees as individuals with whom you intend to build relationship

Consideration

One of the main distinctions that can be drawn from the Ohio State studies and the Univeristy of Michigan ist hat the University of Michigan leaders' behaviors:

Dependent

As a leader, department manager Anna has little concern about results and has little concern for people. Her Managerial Grid style is labeled

Impoverished

To get people in a good mood, the ____ influencing tactic may be used by being friendly and praising others before you ask them for what you want

Ingratiation

According to the Ohio State Studies, ____ refers to those leader behaviors related to helping and guiding employees to do their jobs in efficient and relaible ways

Initiating Structure

The leadership tradition that describes relationships among leaders, followers, and the situational is referred to as

Integrative approaches

A Theory that emphasizes leader traits and skills as determinants of leadership behavior is best categorized at what level of conceptualization

Leaders as Individuals

What is the most common element in definitions of leadership

Leadership is an influence process

Which statement about leaders and managers is more accurate according to Yukl?

Leadership is important for the success of most managers

The assumption underlying behavioral leadership research is that leaders are:

Made

An important aspect of ____ power is to have control over resources, particularly scarce resources

Reward

What is referred to as an explanation of some aspect of a phenomenon

Theory

Autocratic leadership behaviors are based on ____, which suggests that employees generally are unwilling to work, unless they are told what to do and then monitored

Theory X

Democratic leadership behaviors are based on ____, which suggests that employees are intrinsically motivated to contribute to organizations and simply want to be given the power to do so

Theory Y

Leadership effectiveness is best assessed:

by a variety of subjective and objective criteria

Consideration includes all of the following behaviors except

clarifying

What is the best explanation for so many different definitions of leadership

disagreement about what should be included in the definition

What process is emphasized in the definition of leadership proposed in class

facilitating collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives

You, as an employee and not a manager in your organization, can only have ___ power

personal

Experts commonly use

rational persuasion

To persuade another person whose behavior is influenced more by thinking than emotion, you would use the tactic of

rational persuasion

Initiating structure includes all of the following except

rewarding