Exam 17: Being an Effective Leader

When Alan was promoted to the head of the sales team at Mac Software Inc., he chose three of his closest friends in the team to form the core sales group with him. Which one of the following predictions would be consistent with the LMX theory?

Evidence indicates that transformational leadership is strongly correlated with ________.

________ leadership is the ability to create and articulate a realistic, credible, and attractive vision of the future for an organization that improves on the present.

In working with his employees, Carlos involves them in decision making and encourages them to participate in deciding their work methods and goals. Carlos's leadership style can best be described as ________.

Which one of the following is included in the class of contingency variables termed "environment" by the path-goal theory?

Reviews of the major studies undertaken to test the overall validity of Fiedler's model have shown ________.

Which one of the following describes the leadership style in which a leader tends to centralize authority, dictate work methods, make unilateral decisions, and limit employee participation?

The managerial grid only provides a framework for conceptualizing leadership style.

The "telling" style of Hersey and Blanchard is most like the ________ style of the University of Iowa studies.

Path-goal theory holds that subordinates with an external locus of control will be more satisfied with a directive style.

When a young child emulates a professional sports star's behavior, what kind of power does the star have over the child?

Which one of the following is included in the class of contingency variables termed "follower" by the path-goal theory?

In a short essay discuss the stages of readiness from the situational leadership theory developed by Hersey and Blanchard. Give an example for each stage.

The managerial grid used the behavioral dimensions "concern for people" and ________ and evaluated a leader's use of these behaviors, ranking them on a scale from 1 (low) to 9 (high).

Team leadership involves a different set of responsibilities than the traditional leadership roles.

Cecil, CEO of a mid-size manufacturing company, readily accepts responsibility for his firm's products, including its mistakes. He is rather quiet but still a strong leader. Cecil could be called a(n) ________ leader.

Fiedler assumed a person's leadership style was ________.

Milan will be managing project engineers in 17 countries around the globe. To maximize his chances for success in these widely diverse cultures, Milan should adopt a(n) ________ leadership style.

Brooke has decided that the appropriate leadership style would be to show friendliness and concern for the needs of her subordinates. According to the path-goal model, she wishes to be a(n) ________ leader.

Transformational leadership characteristics are ineffective in non-Western cultures.