Exam 11: Leadership and Influence Processes

Don Draper is responsible for managing the creative section of his ad agency. In one-to-one sessions, he asks each member of his group to give ideas for the ad campaign to promote a new product. He considers all the ideas and decides to go ahead with the best among them. Which decision-making style is best reflected in the given scenario?

The Ohio State researchers found that employees of supervisors who ranked high on _____ were high performers but expressed low levels of satisfaction and had a higher absence rate.

_____ power is primarily based on identification, imitation, loyalty, or charisma.

According to the path-goal theory, a person with an internal locus of control is most likely to prefer _____ leadership.

A news producer has the authority to choose which reporter will get to cover important news items and which reporter will cover trivial news items. The news producer uses this authority to recognize the hard work of reporters. Which of the following types of power is the producer using in this case?

Valencia, an employee at Y Inc., attempts to bring all her contributions to successful projects to the notice of her manager. Her intention is to build a good image in the eyes of the management. What is best exemplified by Valencia's behavior?

As a property, leadership can be best defined as:

Briefly describe the Leader-Member Exchange approach.

A manager expressing praise, gratitude, or recognition best exemplifies _____ power.

What is the basic assumption of situational approaches to leadership?

Based on the Michigan studies, Rensis Likert argued that the _____ behavior generally tends to be more effective.

_____ power is power granted through the organizational hierarchy.

_____ behavior, identified by the path-goal theory, primarily involves being friendly and approachable, showing concern for subordinate welfare, and treating members as equals.

According to the Managerial Grid approach, the ideal style of managerial behavior is _____.

The models of leadership that look for key situational factors that affect the appropriate style of leadership and the relationships between the factors are known as _____ approaches.

The path-goal theory is the leadership theory that is a direct extension of the _____ theory of motivation.

Carolyn, a manager, discusses and reasons with the Board of Directors of her company until they agree to let her try her new strategic plan for a trial period. Carolyn is using _____ in the given situation.

In the context of the Vroom's decision tree approach, when a manager allows his group to define for itself the exact nature and parameters of a problem and then to develop a solution, they follow the _____ decision-making style.

The first organized approach to studying leadership involved trying to identify leadership _____.

The concept of charismatic leadership is most closely related to: