Exam 15: Leadership

Ahmad is a new manager at AJ Homes Company. He has absolutely no experience as a manager nor does he know the technology of his department well. These two factors prevent Ahmad from directing his workforce. This is an example of _____ impacting leadership styles and behaviors.

Power is the potential ability to influence the behavior and decisions of other people.

Which of the following is the most frequently used and a highly effective influence strategy?

Transformational leaders are hardworking, tolerant, and fair-minded, but are not as capable of leading change as are transactional leaders.

According to the situational theory of Hersey and Blanchard, which of the following leader styles matches up best with low readiness subordinates?

Candice uses praise, letters of support, and pats on the back as ways of influencing her subordinate's behaviors. All of these actions are highly valued by the work group. This is an example of:

Matching the leader's style with the situation by changing factors in the situation to achieve the best match is the basic idea with Fiedler's contingency theory.

Which of these is the potential ability to influence the behavior of others?

Which of the following types of power is vested in the manager's ability to punish employees?

A situational variable that counteracts a leadership style and prevents the leader from displaying certain behaviors is called a neutralizer.

Two leadership styles used by Fiedler in his contingency theory were:

The Michigan researchers used the term _____ for leaders who established high performance goals and displayed supportive behavior toward subordinates.

Hersey and Blanchard's situational theory focuses a great deal of attention on the characteristics of employees in determining appropriate leadership behavior.

The relationship-oriented leader performs better in situations of intermediate favorability because human relations skills are important in achieving high group performance.

According to the leadership grid, _____ means the absence of a management philosophy, where managers exert little effort toward interpersonal relationships or work accomplishment.

Which of the following is consistent with initiating structure?

_____ are natural talents and abilities that have been supported and reinforced with learned knowledge and skills and provide each individual with his or her best tools for accomplishment and satisfaction.

What is the basic difference between consideration behavior and initiating structure behavior?

When leaders influence others through the exchange of benefits or favors, which influence tactic is being used?

According to research, _____ typically score higher on social and emotional skills.