Exam 7: Followership and Leader-Member Exchange

A new manager has been appointed to lead your division and you, as the senior employee, have been filling her in on how things are done in your department. Which of the following guidelines for effective followership are you employing in assisting your new leader?

List the steps in the delegation model.

Discuss the three follower influencing characteristics.

According to LMX Theory, within the same work group, the quality of each dyadic relationship will likely be the same between followers of the same leader.

In times of crisis (personal or work-related), your manager in dealing with you has kept his actions to only what is required of him without going out of his way to be friendly or supportive. In terms of the kind of relationship you have with your manager, you are in which of the following?

Which of the following statements regarding in-groups and out-groups is NOT true?

Team building is the third stage of evolution in the dyadic approach.

Movies dealing with the prison or college environment often depict one or two prisoners or students who seem to have more influence over other prisoners or students than even the guards or administrators. Can you think of one case and explain why the individual was influential over other prisoners or students?

How do quality leader-member exchange relationships influence follower behavior?

The ____ follower is someone who is neither high on critical thinking nor involvement.

Because your leader is an authoritarian leader, you know that he prefers ____ followers.

The effective follower must avoid raising issues with the leader regarding the leader's decisions are misguided and unethical.

Relationships that do not mature beyond the second stage of developing positive LMX relations may deteriorate and remain at the level of an out-group.

The difference between traditional leadership theories and LM is that LMX focuses primarily on the leader instead of the followers' roles.

Leaders primarily use ____ power to influence members of the in-group.

According to Kelley's model of follower types, Belinda is a conformist follower, someone who carries out orders without considering the consequences of those orders and does anything to avoid conflict. According to Kelley's follower types, she is ____ and ____.

Central to LMX theory is the notion of "support for self-worth" that one individual provides for another.

What do you say to those who argue that tactics used by followers to get noticed by their leader (such as impressions management, ingratiation, and self-promotion) are shameful and self-serving and should be avoided?

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

Which of the following has resulted from the higher educational level of the work environment?