Exam 7: Followership and Leader-Member Exchange

The pragmatic follower is high on critical thinking and involvement.

Your organization is dominated by hierarchical relationships in which leader-follower dyads are developed and carefully nurtured. Your organization is at the __________ stage of development of the dyadic approach.

The three determining factors of high-quality LMX relationships include follower attributes, leader and follower perceptions of each other, and situational factors.

Describe the main focus of team building from a Leader-Follower perspective.

The concept of social exchange is used to describe group members' social relationships within and outside their groups and how these relationships affect group effectiveness.

Your manager hinted about having a sexual relationship with you; however, you reminded her that you were happily married. Clearly and calmly, you inform her that you were not interested and asked her not to bring up the topic again. You employed which of the following guidelines for effective followership in this situation?

The conformist follower is someone who is low on involvement yet is high on critical thinking.

What is the presence of bias in the LMX relationship? What is its potential impact on out-group and in-group members of the organization?

The LMX-7 scale is the most commonly used instrument for defining and measuring the quality of relationships.

The higher the quality of an LMX relationship,

An organization in which leader-follower interactions lead to the creation of in-groups and out-groups is at the __________ stage of development of the dyadic approach.

Describe an obstacle to delegation, or sign of delegating too little, that you have observed on the job.

It is easier for a follower who has and is perceived as having an individual self-identity to form high quality LXM relationships.

Which of the following should NOT be delegated?

How does a leader's first impression and perception of a follower influence the quality of their relationship?

Recall the last time you were evaluated on the job by your manager. Describe how you felt at the end of the session. What factors accounted for your feelings? See if some of the factors discussed in this section apply in your particular situation.

Instructions for the following question(s) List the first step in the delegation model, then write what you would say to your grad assistant. Write the second through fourth steps, followed by what you would say to the grad assistant for each step. -The Delegation Model. You are a production manager in a large company. You have received a request for information on your department by the new human resources manager. You are going to delegate the task of writing the answers to the questions to provide the information that the human resources manager wants to your secretary, Chris. Chris has worked for you for several years and should be able to word process the information without any help from you. It shouldn't take more than a couple of hours to record the information.

The concept of ____ is used to describe group members' social relationships within and outside their groups and how these relationships affect group effectiveness.

What are the differences between in-groups and out-groups?

The ____ follower is someone who is high on involvement but low on critical thinking.