Exam 14: Power,Influence,and Leadership: From Becoming a Manager to Becoming a Leader

A recent study shows that female executives are better than male executives at producing high-quality work.

Karl was put on probation for a string of customer complaints about his poor service and professionalism.His supervisor was using ______ power.

According to Fiedler's contingency model,______ situation control favors a leader who is ______-oriented.

Pat is something of a cheerleader around his team.He shares his vision and expresses his confidence in their ability to achieve it.He is quick to compliment and acknowledge their accomplishments,and is enthusiastic about their successes.According to revised path-goal theory,Pat is using a(n)______ leadership style.

Management functions include planning,budgeting,organizing,and staffing.

Female leaders tend to use transformational leadership more than male leaders do.

Describe what leaders do and do want from their followers.

In the out-group exchange,leaders are characterized as overseers who fail to create a sense of mutual trust,respect,or common fate.Employees receive less of the manager's time and attention than those in in-group exchange relationships.

The power that managers have resulting from their formal positions within organizations is called ______ power.

What is a trait theory of leadership? What are the four traits that make a credible leader? Choose a leader that you find credible and assess if that person seems to possess these traits.

The approach to leadership that suggests that effective leadership behavior depends on the situation at hand is the ______ approach.

Employees at any level can be trained to be more transactional and transformational.

Studies show that in the workplace men are better than women at teamwork,partnering,and collaboration.

The path-goal leadership model implies that managers should use more than one leadership style,and should modify their style to fit employee and task characteristics.

In recent studies,the generic influence tactic that employees cite as most used in the workplace is _____.

Traits play a central role in how we perceive leaders.

House's revision of his theory puts more emphasis on the need for leaders to foster _____.

Marcel supervises a group of paralegals serving the firm's lawyers.He gets along well with his employees,and has created detailed procedures for all types of legal document they encounter.Marcel hires and fires,and gives work assignments,performance appraisals,and promotions.According to the contingency model,the optimal leadership style here is _____.

In the contingency model,if your leadership orientation does not match the situation in your workplace,Fiedler recommends that you _____.

According to the concept of full-range leadership,leadership behaviors vary along a range from ______ leadership at one extreme to transformational leadership at the other.