Exam 13: Leadership Essentials

According to the Michigan leadership studies,employee-centered supervisors are those who place strong emphasis on their subordinates' welfare.

Two basic forms of leader behavior,called employee-centered and production-centered,were identified as a result of leadership studies conducted at the University of Michigan.

Assume you are the supervisor of a group of bank tellers.Your subordinates are highly supportive,their jobs are well defined,and you have clear authority to evaluate and reward their performance.Which of the following leadership styles would be most recommended based upon Fiedler's theory?

Trait perspectives indicate that leaders crave power not as a means to achieving a vision or desired goals but as an end in itself.

In leader match training,leaders are trained to diagnose the situation to match their high or low LPC scores with situational control.

The four dimensions of transactional leadership include all of the following EXCEPT:

Hersey and Blanchard argue that situational leadership requires adjusting the leader's emphasis on task behaviors and relationship behaviors according to the __________.

The biggest controversy about Fiedler's contingency theory concerns __________.

According to House's path-goal leadership model,which of the following behaviors is part of a directive leadership style?

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT with regard to situational leadership theories?

__________ make(s)a leader's influence either unnecessary or redundant in that they replace a leader's influence.

__________ leadership involves leader-follower exchanges necessary for achieving routine performance agreed upon between leaders and followers.

In contrast to other approaches to studying leadership,the __________ approach argues that sometimes hierarchical leadership makes essentially no difference.

Len and John are managers.Len spends a lot of time scheduling work to be done and providing guidance on its accomplishment.John takes great care to listen to his subordinates' concerns and act friendly toward them.In the terminology of House's path-goal theory,Len is acting as a(n)__________ leader,while John is acting as a(n)__________ leader.

__________ are those who,by force of their personal abilities,are capable of having a profound and extraordinary impact on followers.

When using the leadership grid,results are plotted on a nine-position grid that places concern for __________ on the vertical axis and concern for __________ on the horizontal axis.

The __________ model focuses on the situational contingency of maturity or "readiness" of followers.

According to Fiedler,the extent to which a position enables a leader to use his or her task expertise and authority to reward or punish subordinates is called __________.

The behavioral perspective of leadership assumes that leadership is central to performance and other outcomes.

In the Michigan leadership studies,__________-centered supervisors were found to have more productive work groups than did __________-centered supervisors.