Exam 15: Dynamics of Leadership

Miguel Valdez is the new manager of an exotic game hunting club. As the leader of this organization, Valdez is called on to recognize and understand his own feelings and emotions about hunting exotic game. He must also use these insights to guide his behavior toward members and employees of the club. Valdez displays __________.

A leader's use of different types of influence can lead to which of three types of responses in followers?

Leaders who believe that their employees work hard, cooperate, and have positive attitudes are said to exhibit a __________ leadership style.

Javier Olivas is a project leader for his large accounting firm. His team is composed of several CPAs with an average of fifteen years experience each. Each team member is both competent and motivated to accomplish project tasks. Olivas feels he should be actively listening and assisting the team members to use what they have learned. The Situational Leadership Model would suggest that Olivas practice a __________ leadership style.

Team support is the degree to which employees relate to the interests of the organization as a whole or a specific unit in solving the problem.

The __________ style of the managerial grid model is characterized by low concern for both people and production.

Managers who use the __________ style of leadership don't consider employees' personal needs to be relevant to achieving the organization's objectives.

__________ is not one of the defining characteristics of a transformational leader.

What are contingency models of leadership? Discuss one of the two contingency models of leadership.

Myron Lind is the head of the Marketing Department at White Plains Community College. He often runs into problems when developing the faculty teaching schedule. When this happens, Lind presents the problem to the faculty and acts as a facilitator, defining the problem to be solved and the constraints within which the decision must be made. Lind is using the __________ style of leadership identified in the Vroom-Jago leadership model.

As a high school student, Sylvia Montero, an executive at Pfizer, had the benefit of a(n) _____________.

Leaders who create focus towards a common goal by striving to create a vision reflecting the concerns and aspirations of followers is a description which element of leadership?

Carlos Ghosn's _________ is(are) among the major reason(s) for his effectiveness as CEO of Nissan Motors.

Heather Cole is the dispatcher for a large sanitation company. When Cole confronts a problem, she gathers all of her drivers in a meeting, gets their suggestions, and then makes a decision. Cole is using the __________ style of leadership identified in the Vroom-Jago leadership model.

Andrea Jung relied primarily on using the delegating style of leadership when she became as CEO of Avon/

Because leadership behaviors cannot be learned, individuals will have a difficult time becoming effective leaders if they are not born with the necessary traits.

Transformational leaders are good at changing the way organizations are designed by they have little person effect on people in the organization.

In the Vroom-Jago model, leaders who use a facilitate style make the decision and either announce or sell it to the team.

The Situational Leadership Model suggests that the levels of task and relationship leader behaviors should be based on the __________ of the followers.

Expertise and charisma tend to result in follower __________.