Exam 4: Behavioral Approach

Relationship behaviors ______.

Considering Blake and Mouton's Leadership Grid,what variable is along the x-axis?

Your friend is also studying leadership theory at another university.He says his professor discounts the Behavioral Approach because it is not conclusive or prescriptive.What does he mean?

Your boss at work is very direct.He manages you very closely,checks your work,yet he does not know your name even though you have worked there for 3 months.What numeric coordinates would you use to plot your boss's behavior on the Leadership Grid?

Jennifer can see that her leader sometimes directs the team and sometimes tries to build relationships with the group.She does not change her behaviors based on whom she is interacting with; Jennifer just can pick out when she uses these two different styles.Jennifer's leader is using ______.

Defend or refute: Opportunistic leadership can be justified in certain situations.

Each day of the week you meet with your direct supervisor and your coworkers for a morning meeting.The meeting is open-forum and issues,goals,topics,and ideas are all discussed at the meeting,during which the supervisor responds when able and asks for feedback often.This is an example of ______.

Relationship behaviors ______.

Your boss listens to employees' personal problems and tries to create a positive work environment by being agreeable,eager to help,comforting,and uncontroversial while remaining less concerned with productivity.This is an example of ______.

A leader who places high emphasis on job requirements and low emphasis on people is displaying ______.

In the Leadership Grid,the 9,9 type of leader prefers the middle ground,soft-pedals disagreement,and swallows convictions in the interest of progress.

The focus of behavioral approach is on ______.

Blake and Mouton's research identified ______.

I am really not interested in interacting with my staff nor do I put much emphasis at all on how the team performs.I am using ______.

Which of the components on Blake and Mouton's Leadership Grid has high concern for both interpersonal relationships and task accomplishment?

Which of the following behaviors is not associated with the opportunistic leadership style?

The LBDQ used today was originally constructed from a ______.

Write a scenario in which middle-of-the road leadership style would be the optimal choice.How would it be preferable to each of the other four leadership styles on the grid?

I am meeting my new team,which I will directly supervise for the first time.I introduce myself and invite each team member to share some interesting facts about themselves unrelated to work.I am using ______.

Using the behavioral approach,______.