Exam 15: Leadership

As the manager of a department store,Joan focuses primarily on the work that each employee at the store is doing and provides rewards purely based on performance.This behavior is called ________.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of Fiedler's contingency model of leadership?

Compare and contrast the life cycle theory of leadership with Fiedler's model.

Pygmalion effect is observed when the leaders display job centered behavior rather than being employee centered.

A manager who has the tendency to "sell" his or her decisions is most likely to ________.

In the AII decision style,presented in the VYJ model,manager and subordinates meet as a group to discuss the situation,but the manager makes the decision.

The central theme of leadership is ________.

The life cycle theory of leadership maintains that ________.

Which of the following characteristics is more closely associated with an emerging leader than a manager?

William Cooley is the manager of a professional football club.He bases his relationship with the players on aspects such as friendship,mutual trust,respect,and warmth in the relationship.Here,William is displaying a(n)________.

The Vroom-Yetton-Jago Model is built on the premises that organizational decisions should be of high quality and subordinates should accept and be committed to organizational decisions that are made.

Some employees crave a greater degree of freedom in working.These employees are most likely to have ________.

Which of the following statements is most closely associated with the concepts of the path-goal theory of leadership?

Carrie is the CEO of a leading electronics manufacturer.She bases her managerial recruitments entirely on aspects such as the prospect's intelligence quotient,emotional maturity,dependability,persistence,and the drive for continuing achievement.Which of the following approaches to leadership does Carrie believe in?

Which of the following leadership aspects would be most significant when choosing the manager based on the Tannenbaum and Schmidt Leadership Continuum?

The path-goal theory of leadership suggests that the primary activity of a leader is to make desirable and achievable rewards available to organization members who attain organizational goals.

What are the major forces in a situation that influence a manager's determination of how to make decisions? Explain briefly.

An inexperienced man has just been hired as a salesperson in a men's clothing store.According to the life cycle theory,a low-task/high-relationship style of leadership should be maintained to effectively manage this person.

Under which of the following leadership theories does the leader inspire organizational success by profoundly affecting followers' beliefs in what an organization should be,as well as their values,such as justice and integrity?

A leader who places high value on helping others over self interests is called a(n)________.