Organizational Behavior - Ch. 13

The primary purpose of _________ behaviors is to enhance employees' skills and to create positive work relationships among coworkers and between the leader and his or her employees.

relationship-oriented

(True or False) Emotional intelligence has been shown by research to have a large, positive, and significant association with leadership effectiveness.

False

(True or False) Strategic skills are the most important to managers at middle levels of the organization.

False

(True or False) Unlike other elements of OB, leadership is not influenced by situational factors.

False

Not everyone is a leader who exerts influence over others in pursuit of organizationally relevant matters.

False

_________ are the dimensions of situational control in Fiedler's model.

Leader-member relations, task structure, and position power

What interpersonal traits has research shown to have a negative relationship with leadership effectiveness?

Machiavellian

According to research, what statements about men's and women's leadership traits is true?

Men and women are equally assertive,

___________ focuses on clarifying employees' role and task requirements and providing followers with positive and negative rewards contingent on performance.

Transactional leadership

(True or False) A key variable in Fiedler's model is situational control, which is composed of leader-member relations, task structure, and the leader's position power.

True

(True or False) Inspirational motivation involves establishing an attractive vision, the use of emotional arguments, and exhibition of optimism and enthusiasm.

True

Consideration involves leader behavior associated with creating mutual respect or trust and focuses on a concern for group members' needs and desires.

True

When a leader is encouraging employees to question the status quo and seek innovative and creative solutions to organizational problems, he or she is engaging in...

intellectual stimulation.

Leaders increase psychological empowerment by engaging in behaviors that enhance perceptions of...

meaningfulness, self-determination, competence, and progress.

Leader-member exchange theory focuses on the leader's...

relationships with followers