Exam 7: Follower-ship and Leader Member Exchange

The pragmatic follower is high on critical thinking and involvement.

When leaders are trained to develop and nurture high-quality relationships with all of their followers, the results on follower performance are dramatic.

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

Before setting objectives that define responsibility, level of authority, and deadline, you should explain the need for delegating and the reasons for selecting the employee.

Can someone have a successful career by aspiring to be an effective follower? Explain.

List five things a leader should delegate.

An organization faced a sudden crisis as it found that a major client was considering dropping the organization's services. A new employee agreed to work through the weekend in order to provide the client with improved services as leadership worked to save the relationship. What is a likely result of this episode?

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

The most commonly used instrument for defining and measuring the quality of relationships is the:

Define the two kinds of relationships that can occur among leaders and followers under the vertical dyadic linkage model.

You can delegate responsibility and accountability, but not authority.

Discuss the three follower influencing characteristics.

When asked about her new boss, an employee says that, "The relationship is simple-he tells me what to do, and I do it. I only get what support is deemed absolutely necessary to a project. If I think that the support is simply inadequate, I ask for more. However, the last time that I did that, he put someone else on the job." This employee is probably a(n):

____ is the process of assigning responsibility and authority for accomplishing objectives.

Leaders who have difficulty meeting deadlines and who take work home from the job are showing signs of:

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

Possibilities of what to delegate include all of the following EXCEPT:

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

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

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