Exam 12: Contemporary Approaches to Leadership

The transition from transformation to equilibrium is known as which of the following?

How a leader behaves in any given situation is called ___________________.

Arnold, Arad, Rhoades & Drasgow (2000) developed a measure that focused on five dimensions of leadership called the ELQ. ELQ stands for _______________________.

Management of __________ is understanding and accepting one's own strengths and weaknesses, acknowledging that risk and failure are part of visionary leadership.

___________________ refers to what the leader needs to do as well as what the leader is not permitted to do.

Management is concerned with routine operations whereas leadership is more attuned to creating a vision for the organization and setting its larger goals.

___________________ leadership is "the process of influencing major changes in the attitudes and assumptions of organization members (organizational culture) and building commitment for major changes in the organization's objectives and strategies."

Which of the following is not one of the dimensions of empowerment leadership outlined by Arnold and colleagues (2000)?

___________________ leadership could be effective in maintaining the status quo in terms of productivity and effectiveness.

The leader-member exchange theory was originally known as the vertical dynamic linkage model.

The process of influencing major changes in the attitudes and assumptions of organizational members and building commitment is referred to as which of the following?

_______________________ is garnering the attention of the followers to the vision that the leader has espoused.

Which of the following behaviors should be consistent with the members' ideas of what leader should do and how they should conduct themselves?

The multidimensional model does which of the following?

Bennis (1984) used the label visionary leadership and suggested that it calls for competency in four different areas. All of the following are visionary leadership areas except:

Clarifying for members what a vision means for them and for the organization and how their activities would contribute to attaining that vision is referred to as _______________________.

The implication of the leader-member exchange theory is that a leader is likely to bestow his or her trust and support on those individuals the leader values as contributors to group functioning.

The transformational leader convinces the members of the viability of the vision, articulates the vision, and expresses confidence in members' ability to achieve the vision.

One of the major dimensions of transformational leadership is leading by example.

Transactional leadership refers to a leader who inspires employees to higher levels of performance.