Exam 4: Behavioral Approach

The director of your department attends one weekly meeting. The director is seldom at the office outside of the meeting and rarely responds to e-mails when you send questions pertaining to the organization. This is an example of

According to Blake and Mouton, the "authority-compliance manager" is highly concerned with people and has little concern for results.

Grid seminars are training and development programs that make use of the styles approach. These seminars are done through the use of ____________ findings.

Your boss listens to employees personal problems and tries to create a positive work environment by being agreeable, eager to help, comforting, and uncontroversial. This is an example of

Styles approach does all of the following, except

Before the inception of the style approach, leadership was treated exclusively as a(n)

Researchers at Ohio State University developed a questionnaire called the LBDQ. The letters "LBDQ" stand for what?

Which scholar(s) created the Leadership Grid?

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

__________ refers to a leader who uses any combination of the basic five styles for the purpose of personal advancement.

In the Leadership Grid, a person who uses but does not integrate the 1,9 and 9,1 styles of leadership could be called a "benevolent dictator."

Larry dislikes giving instructions to employees. He is uncomfortable with

The style approach has been validated by a wide range of studies.

You are required to report directly to your supervisor every morning. Upon arrival he gives you a large list of tasks to be completed by the end of the day; he states he will be checking in after lunch to see your progress. This is an example of

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

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.

What two types of leadership behavior were identified by the program of research at Michigan?

The style approach has failed to identify a universally effective leadership style.

Middle-of-the-road management best describes leaders who are

Paternalistic and maternalistic use both ______ and ______ but never combine the two.