Chapter 14 MindTap

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A: Directive leadership B: Supportive leadership C: Participative leadership D: Achievement oriented leadership

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A: Performance B: Task-oriented leader C: Relationship oriented leader

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A: Subordinate Contingencies B: Outcomes C: Environmental Contingencies

When a manager clearly communicates important goals to her employees and indicates that she will hold them accountable for meeting those goals, she is engaged in

initiating structure

Google CEO Larry Page likes to "make big things happen," and he encourages his employees to always think bigger. This is an example of the ______ element of the path-goal theory

leadership styles

Leader

Promotes Change Expands people's choices and options

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A: Country club mgmt B: Team mgmt C: Middle-of-the-road mgmt D: Impoverished mgmt E: Authority-compliance

Vroom used the term _____ to refer to a decision style in which the leader solves the problem or makes the decision using information available at the time.

AI

Who should you hire? Aaron is an ex-cop with a take-no-prisoners attitude. He wants to win, and he'll make sure that happens by focusing the players' energies on the game, not on their quarrels. He knows that even the best players can benefit from extra training and drills. Carl is a popular local youth leader who played soccer at a semiprofessional level when he was in college. Carl knows everyone in town, and he has a reputation for being low-key and caring.

Carl

Which of the following are employee-centered leadership behaviors? Check all that apply.

Encouraging an employee who is having trouble completing a task. Talking with an employee about her career plans. Helping an employee choose classes to improve his presentation skills.

Manager

Has a short term perspective

A CEO is considering whether to invest in developing leadership capabilities in its managers. To make this determination, which of the following should he take into account?

How leaders behave has a major impact on employee performance.

How will you make your decision about which company to study?

I will share the problem with the group and work with them to make the final decision as a group.

Sirah runs a housecleaning service. She wants her employees to be highly efficient, cleaning a certain number of houses each day, and perform their work according to established checklists of tasks that have proven to satisfy clients. What is the more appropriate style of leadership, given Sirah's objectives for her housekeepers?

Transactional

To motivate longtime employees who are at or past retirement age to stay with the company so the organization does not lose their expertise and deep relationships with customers, Columbia Office Furniture structures its retirement savings plan to make larger contributions to these employees' accounts each year.

Transactional leadership

When employees raise problems at staff meetings, Jonna doesn't solve them. Instead, she asks the employees what approaches they would like to try. Her employees know they can suggest any solutions, even those that imply criticism of Jonna's management.

Transformative leadership

You have just taken over a management position at the Green Schools Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to helping students and their teachers protect the environment by taking green actions whenever possible. The employees in your group have been working with the agency for a very long time. They create new sustainability campaigns, a difficult and challenging task for which they get few rewards. According to path-goal theory, you should use the _____ style of management in this example

participative

In this situation, it is appropriate to choose a _______ leader because the situation is ______. Leader-member relations are ____ , task structure is______, and leader position power is______ .

relationship-oriented intermediately favorable poor structured strong

James is an agreeable and emotionally stable person. A ____ , he inspires his employees to believe in the changes he wants to make to the organization.

transformational leader