Chapter 14- Power, Influence, and Leadership

Which is NOT a positive task-oriented trait? A. Agreeableness B. Intelligence C. Positive Affect D. Emotional Stability

A. Agreeableness

Which of the following focuses on providing rewards and punishments contingent on performance? A. Transactional leadership B. Transformational leadership C. Benefits leadership D. Motivational leadership

A. Transactional leadership

Which leadership style sets challenging goals, emphasizes excellence. and demonstrates confidence in employee abilities?

Achievement-Oriented

_________ leadership is Attempts to determine the distinctive styles used by effective leaders

Behavioral

_____ is a form of interpsersonal attraction that inspires acceptance and support

Charisma

What is a leader's power that results from formal positions with the organization?

Legitimate power

What is defined as a self-centered perspective, feelings of superiority, and a drive for personal power and glory.

Narcissism

Which leadership model states that successful leaders help followers by tying meaningful rewards to goal accomplishment, reducing barriers to achieving those goals, and providing subordinates with support?

Path-goal leadership

______ is the ability to influence employees to voluntarily pursue organizational goals.

Leadership

What determines if a leader's style is task-oriented or relationship oriented and wheather that style is effective for the situation at hand?

Contingency leadership model

The Four Key Behaviors of a Transformational Leader does not include A) Inspirational Motivation B) Idealized Influence C) Intellectual Stimulation D) Disciplinary Action

D) Disciplinary Action

The _______-______ effect is a bias where people who are incompetent at something do not realize it and have lots of confidence.

Dunning-Kruger

_____ leadership represents normativly appropiate behavior that focuses on being a moral role model.

Ethical

____ power is one of the 5 sources of a leaders power resulting from specialized information or expertise

Expert

What two factors is transformational leadership influenced by

Individual characteristics; Organizational culture

Which term is described as the leader behavior that "initiates the structure for" what employees should be doing to maximize profit?

Initiating structure leadership

Being inspiring, setting the tone, and articulating the vision are all characteristics of what?

Leader

The head manager Jimmy decides to take away one of his subordinates' bonus since they were fooling around during work. This is an example of what type of situational control?

Position power

______ is the ability to marshal human, informational, and other resources to get something done.

Power

____ can be described as a lack of concern for others, and impulsive behaviors

Psychopathy

____-oriented leadership is primarily concerned with the leader's interaction with his or her people.

Relationship

Which behavioral leadership approach is primarily concerned with the leader's interactions with his or her people?

Relationship-oriented leader

What leadership style is best in moderate control situations?

Relationship-style

According to Fiedler's contingency leadership model, the amount of influence a manager has in the immediate work environment is known as what?

Situational control

What is the purpose of task oriented leadership behaviors?

The purpose of task oriented leadership behaviors is to ensure that resources are being used effectively to complete a goal

Which is not one of the three dimensions of Situational Control Leader- member relations Task structure Position power Top-down hierarchy

Top-down hierarchy

What type of leadership causes employees to pursue organizational goals over self interests.

Transformational Leadership

______ occupy a very small number of CEO positions in the country but the numbers are growing.

Women

which of the following questions best exemplifies the power position dimension of situational leadership? a. do i have power to reward and punish? b. do my subordinate respect for me? c. do my employees have the ability to complete simple tasks d. do my subordinates practice creative thinking?

a. do i have power to reward and punish?

What is 1 of the 6 sources of power? a. reward b. convincing c. authoritative d. questionable

a. reward

Which of the following is not one of the SIX sources of power? a. legitimate power b. Award power c. coercive power d. Expert power

b. Award power

Which of the following is NOT one of the nine most common influence tactics? a. Coalition tactics b. Cognitive tactics c. Legitimating tactics d. Ingratiation

b. Cognitive tactics

Golbal mind-set is your _____ in your ability to influence dissimilar others in a global context

belief

Four basic skills for leaders are cognitive abilities, internpersonal skills, __________ and conceptual skills.

business skills

Which one of these is not a dark triad? a) narcissism b) Machiavellianism c) psychopathy d) negativity

d) negativity

Which of the following do leaders NOT do? a. motivate others b. inspire others c. provide emotional support d. plan and organize

d. plan and organize

The five positive task-oriented traits are intelligence, consciousness, openness to experience, ________, and positive affect.

emotional stability

_____ leaders tend to display 5 key qualities valued by employees : high self- awareness, open to feedback, appreciation of others, low self-focus, and the appreciation of the greater good.

humble

What is the difference between leaders and managers?

leaders create a vision and strategic plan and managers typically implement the visions and plans

Your leadership style is determined by your _____ score?

least preferred co- worker (LPC)

People who pursue _____-power directed at helping oneself-as a way of enhancing their own selfish ends may give the word power a bad name.

personalized

Which type of power is directed at helping oneself?

personalized

What is the difference between personalized and socialized power ?

personalized is directed at helping oneself and socialized is helping others

Which leadership behavior emphasizes the technical or task-related aspects of employees' roles?

production-centered

What is "Leadershipstyle that focuses on clarifying employees' roles and task requirements and providing rewards and punishment contingent on performance."

transactional leadership