Exam 9: Exporting, Importing, and Global Sourcing

Being organized, systematic, punctual, achievement-oriented and dependable describes the Big Five Trait of ______________.

The style that involves a high level of manager involvement and is used when employees are highly motivated but have limited skills is:

Which of the following is not a type of decision making styles discussed in the text:

Some tips to achieve servant leadership style include which of the following suggestions offered in the text?

The achievement-oriented leadership style is likely to be effective when employees have both high levels of ability and high levels of achievement motivation.

Which of the following is not highly correlated with leadership ability?

_______________ is the style that involves the least amount of input from the leader.

Robert House's _______________ theory of leadership is based on the expectancy theory of motivation.

Explain the least preferred coworker scale from the contingency theory?

Employees working in large groups where opportunities for member interaction were limited preferred _______________ leader decision making.

When leaders are task-oriented, productivity tends to be a bit higher.

In a study conducted in a research organization, scientists viewed democratic leadership most favorably, and authoritarian leadership least favorably.

In large, bureaucratic, and rule-bound organizations such as the government and the military, a leader's traits may have more to do with how the person behaves and whether the person is a successful leader.

The leadership approach that defines the leader's role as serving the needs of others is called:

It is possible that those with high self-esteem have greater levels of ______________ and this affects their image in the eyes of their followers.

Psychologists refer to general mental ability as ______________.

While many people assume that charisma is innate, it is possible to improve your charisma by following which of the following suggestions offered in the text?

For employees who have a high internal locus of control, participative leadership gives employees a way of indirectly controlling organizational decisions.

The key to benefiting from the findings of trait researchers is to be aware that not all traits are equally effective in predicting leadership potential across all circumstances.

Task-oriented behaviors are sometimes called ______________ structure.