Exam 12: Contemporary Approaches to Leadership

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The process of influencing major changes in the attitudes and assumptions of the organization's members and building commitment for major changes in the organization's objectives and strategies in referred to as transformational leadership.

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Leaders of an organization must be attentive toward their employees' needs; however; they are not permitted to simply ignore any organizational problems they are having. This is an example of which of the following?

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Which of the following is not one of the states of leader behavior focused on in Chelladurai's multidimensional model of leadership?

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The theory that suggests that the leader's behaviors need to be consistent with the style of leadership preferred by the members is referred to as which of the following?

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Arnold, Arad, Rhoades, and Drasgow (2000) developed a measure that focused on five dimensions of leadership. That instrument is referred to as which of the following?

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___________________ leadership refers to the follower perception that a leader possesses a divinely inspired gift and is somehow unique and larger than life.

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The two requirements of which behavior are the situational requirements and the member's preferences?

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Weese (1995) combined the work of Bass (1985), Bennis (1984), and Shaskin (1986) to propose a five-component model of leadership. All of the following are components of that model except:

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According to the ___________________ theory, effectiveness of leadership is a function of the extent to which the leader builds a distinctively unique relationship with each of the members.

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The main thrust of required leader behavior is how a leader behaves in any given situation.

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Chelladurai's multidimensional model of leadership focuses on three states of leader behavior: (a) _________________, (b) _________________, and (c) _________________.

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Bennis (1984) used the label _______________________ and suggested that it calls for competency in four different areas.

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One of the major dimensions of empowerment leadership is participative decision making.

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The leader-member exchange theory suggests that five dimensions of leadership focus on empowering subordinates.

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Weese (1995) combined the work of Bass (1985), Bennis (1984), and Shaskin (1986) to propose a five-component model of leadership, which includes: (a) _______________, (b) ________________, and (c) __________________.

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__________ is concerned with stability, order, and efficiency, while __________ is concerned with flexibility, innovation, and adaptation.

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Transformational leadership leads to the formation of an out-group whose members have low-quality exchange relationships with the leader.

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Macro variables can also be referred to as ___________________.

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The leader is not likely to interact as much with those who are seen as less valuable to a group.

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The preferences of an organization's members for specific leader behaviors are referred to as preferred leader behaviors.

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