Exam 5: Power and Leadership

Separating followers and leaders can help reduce power corruption.

The higher ________________ and the lower the _______________,the more likely it is that leaders will hold a high degree of power that they can use.

Managers who abuse power perform well because they surround themselves with highly competent followers.

Examples of the use of empowerment in many organizations show that:

Empowerment can create _________,where the less a leader controls employees,the more likely they are to accept responsibility and control.

The empirical research on empowerment has found:

Which of the following is not a potential solution to top management corruption?

Explain the apparent contradiction of the less a leader uses her power the more she has.

The change in government personnel after elections is an example of access as a source of executive power.

Mexicans expect their leaders to:

The French and Germans expect their bosses to provide answers to their questions.

The key organizational factor in abuse of power is:

_________ is the ability of one person to influence others.

Although there is not strong research support,many organizations believe that empowerment leads to higher employee motivation.

The first step for an organization to start the empowerment process is to:

Empowerment involves pushing decision making and implementation to the lowest possible level.

The concept of strategic contingencies suggests that teams must address the needs of strategic stakeholders outside the organization.

Explain why many leaders begin to think of themselves above the rules that apply to the average person and how that contributes to abuse of power.Why is it then that the business world continues to support staggering salaries and benefits for business executives?

The most common and serious consequence of power corruption is poor decision making.

Abusive and corrupt leaders intimidate their followers into silence and then consider the silence and lack of responsiveness as a sign of their followers' incompetence,therefore asking them even less for input.This is an example of: