Exam 11: Leadership and Trust

Compare and contrast Fiedler's contingency model and situational leadership theory.

Arab leaders are expected to be paternalistic.

Most leadership theories were developed in the United States. Which of the following is not a bias in these theories?

If trait theories of leadership are correct, leaders are born rather than developed.

The key properties of a vision seem to be inspirational possibilities that are value- centered, realizable, and have superior imagery and articulation.

Fiedler's LPC model maintains that leadership style is critical to success and the amount of situational control is less important.

Most new relationships begin on a base of ________ .

All of the following are theories that attempted to isolate key situational variables in order to understand leadership success except

To explain leadership in terms of behavior, general statements could not be made because results would vary over different ranges of circumstances.

Application of Path- Goal Theory Harry knows that there are a variety of differing ways to effectively lead. However, he would like to be more effective at his job as well as helping his first- line managers also be effective leaders. As he thinks about his first- line managers, he realizes that they all demonstrate a wide variety of leadership styles. Jennie lets her employees know exactly what is expected of them and gives specific guidelines on how tasks are to be accomplished. Jack, on the other hand, always solicits employee information and suggestions before making a decision. Kate expects so much from her employees. She sets challenging goals and expects her employees to reach those goals. Then, there is Frank who is always outgoing and friendly, endlessly concerned with his employees and their welfare. Harry decides to use House's path- goal theory to analyze his current situation. -Frank uses the ________ leadership style.

A leader who involves employees in decision making, delegates authority, and allows the employees to have direct input into the final decision, with the leader serving as only one input from the group is using the ________ style of leadership.

________ type of leaders provide vision and sense of mission, instill pride, and gain the respect and trust of their followers.

Application of Hershey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership Theory (SLT) Eric has a wide variety of employees he is trying to lead. Everything from age to experience to enthusiasm varies. Some employees need a lot of direction, and just the other day he upset one of the older, experienced workers, Hazel, by trying to help too much. After all, she probably did know the job better than he did, and she was a very willing and capable worker. She had worked at her job for 20 years. Yet he was only trying to be helpful, and he was trying to compensate for the day before when he had not told Joe enough. Joe was a new employee, very enthusiastic, but very little experience. Joe needed the roles defined and specific information on how to do some tasks. Hank, on the other hand, likes to share in decision- making, and Eric's main role is that of communication and facilitation. Eric has chosen to apply Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership theory. -According to Hersey and Blanchard, which leadership style would probably work best with Hank?

The highest level of trust is called deterrence- based trust, which is based on an emotional connection between the parties.

The trait approach to leadership has identified a specific set of personality characteristics that determine leader success.

The________ leadership model is a combination of the trait and leader behavior approaches, with the addition of a situational element.

According to Hersey and Blanchard, a person with high task and high relationship has selling leadership style.

Janice is a friendly and outgoing manager who constantly shows concerns for the needs of her employees. According to House, she is demonstrating which type of leadership style?

Lewin found that using a democratic leadership style could contribute to quality of the work performed.

What are the three situational factors (contingency dimensions)identified by Fiedler?