Exam 7: Follower-ship and Leader Member Exchange

Effective followers:

The difference between contingency theories and LMX is that while the former emphasizes how a good employee facilitates leader job performance, the latter emphasizes how a good leader facilitates employee job performance.

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 ____.

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

Identify a particular leader-follower working relationship that you have had with a manager. To what extent did the Pygmalion effect play a role in the quality of this relationship? How did it affect your career development within the organization?

What are some of the things that a leader should not delegate?

Which of the following is a determinant of follower influence?

Differences in the level of education and experience can impact the relationship among followers, and between leaders and followers.

How does education and experience, described as follower influencing characteristics, affect effective followership?

As a guideline for effective leader feedback, during the post-feedback session the leader should do all of the following EXCEPT:

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

In your opinion, can a leader maintain a personal friendship with some members of his or her work group or team without creating the perception of in-groups (those in his or her social circle) and out-groups (those outside his or her social circle)?

Paul is confident and comforted by the thought that he has a manager he can count on to tell him the truth of happenings in the department even if it means hurting his feelings. Paul is part of which of the following?

You are one of those followers who seem to have a lot of influence with your peers. When it comes to selling your points to peers, you can easily get them to see things your way rather than the manager's way due to your seniority and popularity in the division. Which of the following follower influencing characteristics are you using?

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.

To build a real team, the leader should:

Your manager gave you a new assignment that you dearly wanted and you thanked him immensely for his kindness and confidence in you. Your reaction represents which of the following recommended guidelines for effective followership?

Situational factors refer to random or planned events that provide the opportunity for leaders to evaluate a follower's work ethic or character.

Explain how LMX relationships can lead to unintended bias in HR practices.

Discuss the focus of the systems and networks approach from a Leader-Follower perspective.