Contemp Managment:Quiz 6

Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory stresses that leaders tend to develop strong positive attitudinal and emotional relationships to certain subordinates, who then become part of the leader's

"team" or in-group.

Which of the following characteristics relates to leadership substitutes?

Aspects of the task, subordinates, or organization that act in place of leader behavior and thus render it unnecessary

Which of the following characteristics relates to initiating-structure behaviors?

Defining and structuring leader-employee roles through activities such as scheduling, defining work tasks, setting deadlines, criticizing poor work, getting employees to accept work standards, and resolving problems

What name is given to the most effective managers, who engage in both dimensions of leadership behaviors by getting employees involved in the operation of their departments or divisions in a positive and constructive manner, setting general goals, providing fairly loose supervision, and recognizing employees' contributions?

Employee-centered leaders

According to Fiedler's contingency model, favorability is defined by three aspects of the situation: leadership style, employee development, and the organizational environment.

False

Even though charismatic leaders are usually excellent communicators (so-called "silver-tongued devils"), they often produce feelings of insecurity and inferiority in others.

False

It would be fair to say that the current approaches to leadership, such as the leadership substitutes approach and leader-member exchange theory, have abandoned the contingency approach.

False

Transactional leaders often appeal to higher ideals and ethical values such as truthfulness, transparency, fairness, and diversity.

False

Transactional leaders are known for being passionate about company objectives, modeling corporate values in the workplace, and forming strong relationships with stakeholders. In other words, transactional leaders "practice what they preach." TRUE OR FALSE?

False.

Which of the following characteristics relates to information power?

Power that is a result of having access to important information that is not common knowledge, or of having the ability to control the flow of information to and from others

What name is given to personal power that results when one person identifies with and admires another?

Referent power

Which one of the following activities or behaviors is characteristic of a charismatic leader?

Takes great personal risks and engages in unconventional behavior to achieve change

Which of the following refers to behaviors—such as planning and scheduling work, coordinating employee activities, and providing necessary supplies, equipment, and technical assistance—designed primarily and specifically to get tasks completed?

Task-oriented behaviors

Which of the following is NOT one of the core trait categories that research has shown to have some relationship to leadership ability and success?

Verbal Fluency

As the Hersey and Blanchard life cycle of leadership has evolved into situational leadership theory, a basic premise of it has become that

a leader's style should be contingent on subordinates' skills and dedication.

In the Hersey and Blanchard situational leadership model, development level is the term used to describe

a subordinate's competence in goal attainment and commitment to accepting responsibility for goals.

The continuum approach to leadership has the underlying assumption that

balancing between operations and people is best.

When Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X made their followers feel strong enough to resist racism and segregation, they were using

charismatic power

You have read about the Ohio State studies of leadership but know about no other theories of leadership. Above all else, you want your subordinates to be happy and satisfied. Based on your knowledge, you decide to practice

consideration behaviors.

Leaders such as Warren Buffett who are self-aware and able to control their emotions, enabling them to handle conflicts and challenging situations, are said to be high in

emotional intelligence.

There is increasing evidence that transformational leaders

exist at all levels in organizational hierarchies and in a broad range of organizations.

Professors, computer geniuses, mechanics, airline pilots, and ship captains supposedly have a lot of

expert power.

Google has some practices that cater to employees while not necessarily contributing to overall goals. According to the adaptation of the Blake-Mouton leadership grid, these practices are indicative of a

high touch management style.

Benefits of employee empowerment include all of the following EXCEPT

increased work for leaders.

With regard to leadership and management, most American companies today appear to be

under-led and over-managed