Exam 14: Leadership Traits and Behavioral Styles

In order to find out if a leader has a certain trait you should examine their behaviors.

As a manager, Joanna engages in democratic form of leadership that focuses on consulting with subordinates and taking their suggestions into account before making decisions. Joanna is said to following which of these?

Heroic leadership views leadership as the result of acts of great leaders who inspire and motivate others to accomplish extraordinary things.

__________behavior involves concern for relationships and socioemotional support.

In complex adaptive systems, coordination and control is centralized and comes from within the system.

____________ leadership enables power sharing with employees by clarifying the significance of the work, providing autonomy, expressing confidence in the employee's capabilities, and removing hindrances to performance

The ___________ is based on Milton Friedman's view that the sole purpose of business is to make money.

Task-oriented behaviors include maintaining performance standards, assigning tasks, identifying standard procedures, enforcing deadlines, correcting performance problems, and coordinating activities.

________________ are charismatic leaders with a personalized power orientation.

The extent to which one accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally is called:

___________ leadership is relations-oriented, employee-centered behavior that promotes a friendly work climate by focusing on subordinate needs and wellbeing

_________ leadership is a democratic form of leadership that focuses on consulting with subordinates and taking their suggestions into account before making decisions.

Charisma is a special personal quality or attractiveness that enables an individual to influence others.

Define contingency approaches and describe the four leadership styles in the Contingency Model.

_______ systems are systems that adapt and evolve in the process of interacting with dynamic environments.

________ involves inspirational relationships in which both leaders and followers are positively transformed in the process.

Achievement-oriented leadership is based on Milton Friedman's view that the sole purpose of business is to make money.

Active management by exception involves watching for deviations from rules and standards and taking corrective action.

________ is the study of ethical problems and challenges distinctive to and inherent in the processes, practices, and outcomes of leading and following.

The ethical values, norms, attitudes, feelings and behaviors of employees in an organization are known as _____________.