Exam 3: Leadership Motivation and Behavior

Which leadership model do you prefer?

Examples of Herzberg's motivators are pay, job security, and benefits.

What are the three important contributions of the University of Michigan and Ohio State University studies?

The manager is praising an employee for a job well done. The manager is using which leadership style?

Recall a present or past manager. Which of the five Leadership Grid styles does or did your manager use most often? Describe the behavior of your manager.

Employees, as in all organizations, are expected to be on time. The manager has not done anything when employees come in late. However, it is becoming a habit that the manager wants stopped. Which motivation technique is most commonly used in this situation?

Instructions for the following question(s) Write the first step in the giving praise model, followed by what you would say to the person. Follow the same format of listing the step followed by what you would say for steps 2 to 4. However, do not write what you would say for step 3. -Giving Praise. Select your own situation in which giving praise is appropriate. If it's not obvious through giving praise, write out a short explanation of the situation.

Which of the three process motivation theories do you prefer? Why?

What are the three important contributions of the Leadership Grid and high-high research?

Give one or more examples of the types of reinforcement, and the schedules used, on a present or past job.

The Leadership Grid is based on two leadership dimensions called:

Discuss the similarities and differences among the three content motivation theories.

Give an example of how expectancy theory has affected your motivation, or that of someone else you work with or have worked with. Be sure to specify the expectancy and valence.

____ is credited as being the first to identify the participative leadership style that is commonly used today.

Instrumentality refers to belief that the performance will result in getting the reward.

Giving a bonus after workers produce at a standard rate is an example of a ____ schedule.

List the four steps of the giving praise model.

The manager of a multinational firm operating in a developing country noticed that local employees had at length recently met their physiological and safety needs. According to the hierarchy of needs theory, the next level of motivation would be met by the promise of:

The University of Iowa studies led to an era of ____ research.

Discuss the major similarities and differences among the three process motivation theories.