Exam 12: Leaders and Leadership

Task-oriented leaders have high LPC scores.

As a manager, Jan's most important concern is getting along well with her subordinates. She wants everybody to be friends. Her style of leadership is ________.

Leader reward behavior occurs when a leader positively reinforces the desirable behavior of subordinates.

In the ________ decision-making style, subordinates have some input, but the leader makes the decision.

Leader effectiveness is the extent to which a leader actually does help a group or organization to achieve its goals.

The Vroom and Yetton model offers guidelines regarding the extent to which subordinates should participate in decision making.

The Vroom and Yetton model deals with the multifaceted aspects of leadership.

According to Fiedler, a group that has clear goals and specific means for accomplishing those goals is operating at high levels of ________.

The three path-goal theory guidelines are based on the equity theory of motivation.

Identify the three path-goal theory guidelines that effective leaders can use to motivate their followers.

When leader-member relations are good, followers appreciate, trust, and feel a certain degree of loyalty toward their leader.

The extent to which a leader actually does help a group or organization to achieve its goals is BEST described as ________.

The biggest disadvantage to employee participation in decision making is cost.

________ is the exercise of influence by one member of a group or organization over other members to help the group or organization achieve its goals.

When followers want to believe leaders have the ability to make a difference and attribute qualities to them they really don't possess, they are experiencing ________.

A manager provides free lunch to his entire staff after they have exerted much effort to complete a difficult project. This is an example of leader reward behavior.

Managers who display positive moods at work can expect that their subordinates will provide better customer service than the subordinates of managers who do not display positive moods, according to recent research.

According to Fiedler, ________ are MOST effective in moderately favorable situations.

A leader who engages in initiating structure shows followers that he or she cares about their well-being, how they feel, and what they think.

The leader-member exchange takes into account the fact that leaders often develop different kinds of relationships with different subordinates.