Exam 9: Leadership

In the Lewin/Lippitt/White study,reliance on the leader,critical discontent,and demands for attention were greater in groups with ___ leaders.

Which of the following is NOT one of the Dark Triad personality characteristics?

The belief,apparently widely held by people,that women are more caring and warm than men (who tend to be more self-focused and production oriented)is a central tenet of the social role theory.

An interactional approach to leadership emergence assumes that

High LPC is to Low LPC as ____ is to ____.

According to the text's definition,leadership is NOT:

For a collection of individuals to be considered a true group rather than a collective it must include a leader.

You will be the leader of an existing task force.According to situational leadership theory,as you plan your approach to leadership,what do you need to know about the group?

The leadership substitute theory suggests that leaders can be easily replaced if the group is small,but as group size increases,change is harder and less likely.

Research suggests that people are more likely to seek out a leader when they are relaxed and content rather than when they are stressed by thoughts of their own possible death.

Who will be the group's leader? Davis answers this question by comparing the qualities of all the people in the group to his intuitive conception of a leader,and then favors the person who best matches his image of a leader.His approach is most consistent with ___ theory.

Your leader is self-aware,self-controlled,has empathy,social skill,and can accurately interpret and manipulate moods.She is high in ___ intelligence.

The theory of "leadership substitutes" argues that

Leadership is closely associated with what two aspects of the group?

Hersey and Blanchard (1976)identify four different styles of leadership: (1)high task/high relationship,(2)high task/low relationship,(3)low task/high relationship,and (4)low task/low relationship.They also suggest that different leadership styles are needed at different times,and recommend the following sequence:

When the baseball team failed to make the playoffs,the owner fired the team's manager (leader).Draw on the concept of the "romance of leadership" to explain why.

What are the two dimensions underlying Blake and Mouton's GRID leadership theory?

Alice is a ___ leader: she lets her employees know what is expected of them.She organizes her work force,sets definite standards for performance,and gives frequent feedback of employee progress.

You want to become the leader of a group.Draw on research on leadership emergence to identify a set of strategies that you could use to increase your influence in a group.

The babble effect is the tendency to make simple ideas too complicated.