MGMT 309 ch 16 mindtap
_____ is a form of interpersonal attraction that inspires support and acceptance.
Charisma
_____ refers to the part of the Managerial Grid that deals with the job and task aspects of leader behavior.
Concern for production -The horizontal axis represents concern for production.
According to Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H. Schmidt, which of the following is a managerial characteristic?
Feelings of security
To be a strategic leader, a person should:
Have a firm grasp of an organizations environment
Which of the following is considered to be a prerequisite for effective leadership?
High standards of ethical conduct
_____ occurs when a manager offers to give something to someone else in return for that individual's support.
Inducement
Which of the following is true of legitimate power?
It is present for all managers over their subordinates. -Authority
Which of the following is true of the trait approach?
It studies the psychological traits of strong leaders -The first organized approach to studying leadership analyzed the personal, psychological, and physical traits of strong leaders.
Which of the following situational approaches to leadership stresses the importance of variable relationships between supervisors and each of their subordinates?
The leader-member exchange (LMX) model
Which of the following is true of charismatic leaders?
They set high expectations. -the leader needs to be able to envision the future, set high expectations, and model behaviors consistent with meeting those expectations
_____ goes beyond ordinary expectations by transmitting a sense of mission, stimulating learning experiences, and inspiring new ways of thinking.
Transformational leadership
_____ predicts what kinds of situations call for different degrees of group participation.
Vroom's decision tree approach
Which of the following should be a focus of a strategic leader?
Working toward the future alignment of a firm and the environment
The LPC (least-preferred coworker) theory classifies leaders into two types based on whether they:
are task oriented or relationship oriented
Unlike Japan, businesses in the United States are:
based more on individualism
_____ is the power to force compliance by means of psychological, emotional, or physical threat.
coercive power
Unlike the Michigan state researchers, the Ohio state researchers:
did not interpret leader behavior as being one-dimensional.
The concept of substitutes for leadership was developed because existing leadership models:
do not account for situations where leadership is not needed
Stanley is a professor of anthropology with years of teaching and research experience. He has also written a few highly acclaimed books. Stanley is offered a job as director of a large museum. This is due to his _____.
expert power
Which of the following is true of persuasion as a form of political behavior?
it relies on both emotion and logic
According to Likert's research, which of the following statements is true?
job-centered leader behavior is consistent with the System 1 design (rigid and bureaucratic), whereas employee-centered leader behavior is consistent with the System 4 design (organic and flexible).
A manager who displays consideration behavior is most likely to:
show concern for subordinates.
Managers using job-centered leader behavior:
show keen interest in performance.
As a process, _____ is the use of noncoercive influence to shape a group or organization's goals, motivate behavior toward the achievement of those goals, and help define group or organizational culture.
Leadership
_____ describes activities carried out for the specific purpose of acquiring, developing, and using power and other resources to obtain one's preferred outcomes.
Political Behavior
providing subordinates with feedback.
Political behavior in organizations can be managed by - By providing subordinates with autonomy, responsibility, challenge, and feedback, managers reduce the likelihood of political behavior by subordinates
_____ is the ability to affect the behavior of others.
Power
It is based on identification, imitation, loyalty, or charisma.
Referent power
Which of the following is a new approach to leadership?
Strategic Leadership
According to the path-goal theory, _____ is being friendly and approachable, and treating members as equals.
Supportive leader behavior
Which of the following is a task characteristic that may substitute for leadership?
The availability of feedback
Managers can manage political behavior in an organization by:
avoiding covert activities in the organization.
A manager who threatens to withhold support or rewards is using _____ as a political tactic.
coercion
Strategic leadership:
is used to achieve a superior alignment between a firm and the environment. - Strategic leadership is defined as the capability to understand the complexities of both an organization and its environment and to lead change in the organization to achieve and maintain a superior alignment between the organization and its environment.
The leader-member exchange (LMX) model of leadership:
suggests that supervisors establish a special relationship with a small number of trusted subordinates.
