Bus Ldrship Chap 7
Building Social Capital
Building and maintaining r/ship that allow people to work together to work together in the community across their differences
Which of the following terms refers to how friendly and supportive a leader is toward subordinates?
Consideration
A study of 750 firms by Watson-Wyatt, a human resource consulting firm, reported that companies that used 360-degree feedback systems had a 10.6 percent increase in shareholder value.
False
Leader support is a job-centered dimension of behavior and is similar to the initiating structure dimension of the various Ohio State questionnaires.
False
According to Boris Groysberg's division of skills into buckets, leadership and management skills are less portable than produce skills.
False (they arre more)
leadership versatility approach.
In this case superiors, peers, and direct reports provide ratings on the extent to which target individuals demonstrate strategic operations, enabling, or forcing leadership behavior
Rater bias
It may be that some leaders work in functions, organizations, or cultures that tend to provide systematically higher or lower ratings that are unrelated to actual performance.
The _____ asked leaders to indicate the extent to which they believed different consideration and initiating behaviors were important to leadership success.
Leadership Opinion Questionnaire (LOQ)
Contagion effect
Research shows that emotions are contagious
Which of the following concepts was most likely promoted by Boris Groysberg?
The difference between portable and nonportable skills.
Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ)
To obtain information about a particular leader's behavior, subordinates were asked to rate the extent to which their leader performed behaviors
A leadership skill consists of three components: a well-defined body of knowledge, a set of related behaviors, and clear criteria of competent performance.
True
Leadership behaviors are a function of intelligence, personality traits, emotional intelligence, values, attitudes, interests, knowledge, and experience.
True
Researchers at the University of Michigan considered job-centered and employee-centered behaviors to be at opposite ends of a single continuum of leadership behavior.
True
Mobilization Engaging
a critical mass to take action to achieve a specific outcome is the leadership competency
In _____, superiors, peers, and direct reports provide ratings on the extent to which target individuals demonstrate too much, just the right amount, or too little strategic, operations, enabling, or forcing leadership behavior for a particular position.
a leadership versatility approach
Work facilitation behaviors are concerned with
acquiring and allocating resources.
Intrapersonal skills are leadership competencies and behaviors having to do with
adapting to stress, goal orientation, and adhering to rules.
Intrapersonal skills are
among the most difficult to change.
Leadership skills
are skills and behaviors concerned with building teams and getting results through others
Leader support includes
behaviors where the leader shows concern for subordinates
Competencies concerned with analyzing issues, making decisions, financial savvy, and strategic thinking fall into the
business skills category.
Work facilitation behaviors are concerned with
clarifying roles, acquiring and allocating resources, and reconciling organizational conflicts.
business skills category.
competencies concerned with analyzing issues, making decisions, financial savvy, and strategic thinking fall into the
The two independent dimensions of behavior are called
consideration and initiating structure.
Leader support and interaction facilitation are
employee-centered dimensions of behavior similar to the consideration dimension
Leaders high in consideration
engage in many different behaviors that show supportiveness and concern
Mobilization is best described as
engaging a critical mass to take action to achieve a specific outcome or set of outcomes.
leadership behaviors
(which include skills and competencies) are a function of intelligence, personality traits, emotional intelligence, values, attitudes, interests, knowledge, and experience
The Leadership Grid profiles leader behavior on two dimensions, which are
concern for people and concern for production.
The Leadership Grid profiles leader behavior on two dimensions:
concern for people and concern for production.
three competencies of
framing, building social capital, and mobilization
Males are generally perceived as
having higher advancement potential.
most effective leaders are claimed to have both
high concern for people and high concern for production
According to Ohio State leaders could be
high in both initiating structure and consideration, low in both dimensions, or high in one and low in the other.
Consideration refers to
how friendly and supportive a leader is toward subordinates.
Initiating structure refers to
how much a leader emphasizes meeting work goals and accomplishing tasks.
Ohio State believed that consideration and initiating structure were
independent continua.
Both goal emphasis and work facilitation are job-centered dimensions of behavior similar to the
initiating structure behaviors
Interpersonal skills are those that
involve direct interaction, such as communicating and building relationships with others.
360-degree, or multirater, feedback instrument industry-
is to give leaders feedback regarding the frequency and skill with which they perform various types of leadership behaviors.
Goal emphasis and work facilitation are _____ dimensions of leadership behavior.
job-centered
Four categories of leadership behaviors are
leader support, interaction facilitation, goal emphasis, and work facilitation
Interaction facilitation includes those behaviors where
leaders act to smooth over and minimize conflicts among followers.
Intrapersonal skills
leadership competencies and behaviors having to do with adapting to stress, goal orientation, and adhering to rules.
Goal emphasis behaviors are concerned with
motivating subordinates to accomplish the task at hand
Leadership skills are
skills and behaviors concerned with building teams and getting results through others, and these are more easily developed than the skills and behaviors associated with the first two categories.
According to Michigan State Leaders could theoretically manifest either
strong employee- or job-centered behaviors, but not both
Competency models describe
the behaviors and skills managers need to exhibit if an organization is to be successful.
Framing is
the leadership competency of helping a group or community recognize and define its opportunities and issues in ways that result in effective action.
According to the Leadership Pipeline model,
the most effective leaders are those who can accurately diagnose the organizational level of their job
Community leadership is
the process of building a team of volunteers to accomplish some important community outcome and represents an alternative conceptualization of leadership behavior.
Female managers tend,
to get higher ratings on the majority of skills
Verbal 360s provide
very detailed and context-specific information on what leaders need to keep doing, do more of, and change in order to be more effective.
The Leadership Pipeline is a useful model for explaining
where leaders need to spend their time, what they should be focusing on; road map for people wanting to occupy the top leadership positions in any organization.
