Exam 17: Skills for Optimizing Leadership As Situations Change

Compromising is most likely the best approach to conflict management when opponents with equal power are committed to mutually exclusive goals.

Which of the following is a team trip wire presented by Hackman?

People most likely get more involved in a leader's vision when ________ are used.

Identify a true statement about negotiation as a technique to resolve conflicts.

A leadership vision consists of six related components.

In the context of diagnosing performance problems,which of the following statements is most likely true of the expectations component of the performance model?

In the context of the five general approaches to managing conflict as described by Thomas,which conflict resolution approach is known as the win-lose orientation?

A leader's credibility erodes if the team members are not held accountable for behavior that is misaligned with the team's operating principles.

What should a leader do if the model of performance reveals that expectations for compliance are causing performance problems?

The idea component of a leader's vision is more likely to gain follower commitment if it is a solo effort by the leader.

In the context of team building,managers should be unapologetic and insistent about exercising their authority over direction and over outer-limit constraints on team behavior.

Which of the following is not a component of a leadership vision?

In the context of the five general approaches to managing conflict between two parties as described by Thomas,which of the following is a characteristic of the collaboration approach?

In general,leaders will be only as effective as the followers and teams they lead.

In the context of general approaches to conflict resolution as described by Thomas,accommodation is an approach that represents a compromise between domination and appeasement.

In the context of managing conflict,a zero-sum situation is one in which intermediate degrees of satisfaction are possible,but increases in one party's satisfaction inherently decrease the other party's satisfaction,and vice versa.

In the context of team building,catalyzing real team performances at the top means replacing executive leadership with executive teams.

Two parties in conflict arrive at a compromise between domination and appeasement.In the context of the general approaches to managing conflict as described by Thomas,which of the following resolution approaches does this refer to?

Leaders should focus primarily on developing edge before defining their team's core values.

Which equation represents the model of performance?