Exam 12: Leadership and Followership

Explain the five forms of decision making described in the Vroom-Yetton-Jago normative decision model.

_____ are followers who do not think independently or critically and are passive in their behavior.

Explain the role of trust in leadership.

_____ play a central role in setting the ethical tone and values for organizations.

Alienated followers perpetually sample the wind, and their motto is "better safe than sorry."

_____ includes transformational, charismatic, or transactional leadership as the situation might demand but only in accordance with the leader's conscious and well-developed sense of values.

The _____ represents a trend in organizations wherein more women are placed in difficult leadership situations.

An employee-oriented leadership style leads to a work environment that:

In the context of Fiedler's contingency theory of leadership, _____ are primarily gratified by developing good, comfortable interpersonal associations.

_____ refers to the willingness to be vulnerable to the actions of another and is an essential element in leadership.

In the context of the Situational Leadership model, a telling style involves:

Briefly explain the merits and demerits of charismatic leadership with examples.

In the context of the Leadership Grid, which of the following is true of the country club manager?

According to leader-member exchange theory, in contrast to out-group members, in-group members:

Servant leadership leads to lower team performance and decreased organizational citizenship behaviors in an organization.

In the context of the Leadership Grid, the _____ uses whichever leadership style will maximize self-benefit.

Explain leadership effectiveness with regard to the least preferred coworker (LPC).

Briefly explain how each gender is perceived in terms of charisma.

In the context of the Situational Leadership model, a delegating style is characterized by:

_____ carries with it not only great potential for high levels of achievement and performance on the part of followers but also shadowy risks of destructive courses of action that might harm followers or other people.