Exam 15: Leadership

Buildtech is a small-scale manufacturer of lightweight building panels.Ruth Wallace,the CEO of the company,leads the organization by clearly telling employees what to do and how to do it.Here,Ruth is exhibiting a(n)________.

Explain the Vroom-Yetton-Jago model of leadership.

Leading mainly emphasizes ________.

Derek Bonnell is the editor of a leading magazine.He rarely exerts positional powers and remains friendly with his subordinates.He also takes care to accommodate the personal needs of his subordinates as far as possible.Derek is a(n)________.

Fiedler's contingency theory proposes that leaders should change their styles to match the situation.

Which of the following approaches to leadership suggests successful leadership requires a unique combination of leaders,followers,and leadership circumstances?

The trait approach to leadership proposes that leaders are made,not born.

The more the desire to succeed in followers,the more mature they are said to be.

Which of the following is a critical characteristic of servant leaders?

A manager displays the highest degree of subordinate-centered leadership when he or she ________.

An organization considers its managers to have moral courage.The managers at this organization can be considered ________.

Consideration behavior is any leadership activity that delineates the relationship between the leader and the leader's followers.

According to Tannenbaum and Schmidt,managers who sell decisions can be called subordinate-centered.

Managers must assume an autocratic or boss-centered approach to making decisions when subordinates are characterized by ________.

Keith is the leader of a project team designated to design new products for a firm.He conducts group meetings and discussions regularly so that all team members are aware of the work progress.Keith ensures that all members participate in the meetings and that all the key decisions regarding product design are made by the team.According to the VYJ model,Keith's style of leadership can be classified as ________.

Which of the following is a conclusion derived from the OSU studies on leadership?

Five styles of decision making,ranging from autocratic to consultative,are identified in the ________.

Which of the following leadership facets is highlighted in the Tannenbaum and Schmidt Leadership Continuum?

________ behavior is aimed at telling followers what to do and how to do it.

Explain the major findings of the OSU studies.