Exam 14: Great Leaders: an Evidenced-Based Approach

According to Whetten and Cameron,the "managing conflict" aspect of the interpersonal skills model consists of:

The differences among styles,activities,and skills express the ways leaders influence followers.

Today,even with the great increase in population,the degree of separation between any two people has been reduced to 4.6.

The relative-frequency analysis provides a fairly confident answer to the question of what real managers do.

Most of the time spent in an interpersonal role,identified by Mintzberg,is on ceremonial duties such as taking an important customer to lunch.

Studies show that human resource management activities had a strong relationship to effectiveness (second only to human-oriented communication activities)but had the weakest relative relationship to success.

The authentic leadership development process can be proactively accelerated by all of the following ways except:

What are some of the contemporary leadership development approaches and how do they make leaders more effective?

This classic style of study represents the traditional authoritarian style of leadership.

This refers to the linkage of individual and leader interpretive orientations such that some set of followers' interests,values,and beliefs,as well as the leader's activities,goals,and ideology,becomes congruent and complementary.

The essence of Level 5 leadership is having _____ for the cause of the work - the outcome,the company,the organization - above the self.

Discuss Hersey and Blanchard's life-cycle approach to leadership.

According to managerial activities and behavioral descriptions derived from free observation of Luthans Real Managers Study,the "interacting with outsiders" aspect consists of:

Besides training,job redesign is another important technique leaders can use effectively.

In domestic organizations,this skill could be said to be critical for success in light of increasing diversity.

Briefly summarize Luthans' conceptual categories of Real Managers' activities.

Various studies have indicated that leaders with high behavioral complexity produce the best performance,particularly with respect to business performance and organizational effectiveness.

This is a low-task,high-relationship style and is effective when followers are on the high side of maturity.

According to research by Mintzberg,this role recognizes that managers often spend more time interacting with others outside their unit than they do working with their own leaders and subordinates.

List the behaviors and approaches of great leaders as summarized by House and Podsakoff.