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Bold

"Because of their narcissistic tendencies, these leaders often get quite a bit done. But their feelings of entitlement and inability to learn from experience often results in trails of bruised followers." Which dark-side personality trait is defined by this statement?

Adjustment

"I remain calm in pressure situations." This behavioral aspect corresponds to which FFM personality dimension?

Expectancy theory

"Motivated performance is the result of conscious choice" is a fundamental assumption of

Is domain specific

A leader who has a lot of knowledge and experience in leading a pharmaceutical research team may feel like a duck out of water when asked to lead a major fund-raising effort for a charitable institution. This example illustrates that practical intelligence

Referent

A leader who has developed close interpersonal relationships with followers generally uses his or her _____ power to influence them

A rational persuasion

A politician's advisor explains how demographic changes in the politician's district make it important for the politician to spend relatively more time in the district seeing constituents than she has needed to in the recent past. This is an example of

Self-fulfilling prophecy

A situation in which one's expectations or predictions help determine the very results predicted is referred to as

Physiological and security needs

According to Alderfer's existence-relatedness-growth theory, existence needs basically correspond to Maslow's

Physiological needs

According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which is the most basic level need?

Fundamental attribution error

Crediting your own successes to dispositional factors and others' successes to factors in the environment are aspects of

Attribution

In perception, the process of assigning underlying causes to behaviors is known as

Appear self-confident

Individuals higher in surgency

Analytic intelligence

Leaders and followers who possess higher levels of this type of intelligence tend to be quick learners and have the ability to make accurate deductions, assumptions and inferences with relatively unfamiliar information.

Golem effect

Leaders who have little faith in their followers' ability to accomplish a goal are rarely disappointed. This refers to

Coalition tactics

Leaders who have only coercive or legitimate power may be able to use only _____ to influence followers.

Action, observation and reflection

Leadership development is enhanced when experience involves the three processes of

Groupthink

One of the disadvantages of highly cohesive group is finding that, people in such groups often become more concerned with striving for unanimity than in objectively appraising different courses of action. This phenomenon is called

Self-efficacy

One's core beliefs about being able to successfully perform a given task is called

effort-to-performance expectancy,

The follower estimates the likelihood of performing the desired behavior adequately, assuming she puts forth the required effort

C = D x M x P > R

The formula for the rational approach to change is

Experience

The key to developing one's leadership ability is making the most of

Group cohesion

The sum of forces that attract members to a group, provide resistance to leaving it and motivate them to be active in it is called

Norms

These are the informal rules that groups adopt to regulate and regularize group members' behaviors

Pygmalion effect

This occurs when leaders articulate high expectations for followers

Social facilitation

This refers to any time people increase their level of work due to the presence of others.

Forming

This stage of development of groups is characterized by polite conversation, the gathering of superficial information about fellow members and low trust

Diligent

Which dark-side personality trait is often associated with extremely high dependability scores?

Influence tactics

Which of the following refers to one person's actual behaviors designed to change another person's attitudes, beliefs, values or behaviors?

Legitimizing tactics

_____ occur when agents make requests based on their position or authority.

Perception

affect(s) all three phases of the action-observation-reflection model and thus plays a very important role in what anyone will extract from a leadership course.

Perceptual sets

the tendency to perceive everything