LHRD EXTRA CREDIT REVIEW

a technical and adaptive challenge

A football team decides to completely restructure its offense and use many different players in the process. The players, coaches, and even the fans could have a hard time figuring out the way the new system and implementing this completely new structure. This is an example of ____.

leadership; followers

Author Susan Cain suggests organizations need to downplay the glorification of ____ skills and that the world needs more ___

quite different from power

Burns outlined leadership in his seminal work in 1978 and described leadership as ______

the leader should prove that the employee's effort will be rewarded

If an employee is uncertain that her efforts will pay off, then path-goal theory suggests ______.

leader style, follower characteristics, and work setting

In path-goal theory, the three main components are ______.

is prolific in modern times

Research on transformational leadership ______.

complete

Studying followership helps to ___ our understanding of leadership

power

The definitions of leadership and followership in the textbook have elements in common. Which of the following is not a common element in the two definitions?

has not been studied or scrutinized until recently

The impact of followers on organizations ____

the characteristics of the work setting

The path-goal leader adjusts to the characteristics of the follower and ______.

Acknowledge the central role followers play in the leadership process

The study of followership is meant to ____

adaptive

The type of leadership that focuses on the adaptations required of people in response to changing environments is ____

helps followers do more than what is usually expected

Transformation leadership is an exceptional form of leadership that ______.

followers are motivated if they think completing a task will result in a valuable payoff

Using the path-goal approach, expectancy theory suggests that ______.

Heifetz

Which leadership scholar developed the main framework of adaptive leadership?

transformational leadership theory

Which leadership theory is studied in a variety of disciplines, including nursing, education, and industrial engineering?

provide a holding environment

Which of the following is not one of the named adaptive leader behaviors in the model?

transformational leadership

Which type of leadership is concerned with emotions, values, ethics, standards, and long-term goals?

prepare people to deal with change

Adaptive leaders ____

trait approach

Adaptive leadership can be most highly contrasted with which other approach?

James MacGregor Burns

Of the scholar(s) listed below, who argued that true leadership raises the moral values of subordinates?

motivational theory

Path-goal theory could be best described as a ______.

help followers become leaders themselves

Zalesniks early typology of followership was designed to ____.

rewarding followers for meeting their goals

expectancy theory is about _____