Exam 12: Substitutes for Leadership

According to Kerr and Jermier,effective leadership can be described as the ability to supply subordinates with needed guidance and good feelings,which are not being supplied by other sources.

The existence of written work goals,guidelines,and ground rules and rigid rules and procedures may serve as substitutes for leader-provided coordination under certain conditions.

Results indicate that employees engage in more altruism when:

The results of the meta-analysis performed by Podsakoff,MacKenzie,and Bommer suggest that task characteristics were more strongly related to employee satisfaction than the other criterion variables.

Current theories and models of leadership have a common conviction that _____ leadership is always important.

_____ has been reported to be the most frequent type of coordination strategy employed under conditions of low-to-medium task uncertainty and low task interdependence.

For those who are interested in deriving and refining the theories of formal leadership,a commitment should be made to the importance of developing and operationalizing a true:

_____ refers to the leadership coming from one another instead of being imposed on in a hierarchical fashion.

_____ generally have a considerably stronger relationship than leader behaviors with employee attitudes,role perceptions,and behaviors.

Explain the concept of self-leadership.

In contrast to other criteria,_____ was almost equally related to leader behaviors and substitutes for leadership.

Noncontingent punishment behavior is highly correlated with:

The follower who exhibits self-leadership engages in behaviors that may render unnecessary the same behaviors stemming from the leader.

According to Miner,tasks that are intrinsically satisfying,such as machine-paced operations,contribute to the "push of work."

A(n) _____ is defined by Webster's as something which is able to "paralyze,destroy,or counteract the effectiveness of" something else.

Briefly explain the idea of substitutes of leadership.

The concept of a(n) _____ for leadership suggests that there are factors in the work environment that can take the place of the behavior of a leader.

A substitute is something that increases leaders' ability to influence subordinate criterion variables.

Distinguish between direct and indirect leader behavior effects.

The substitutes for leadership model posits situational variables that cannot enhance the effects of a leader's behavior.