Exam 12: Basic Approaches to Leadership

Harriet discovered that she was a top job candidate for a company that planned to hire a transformational leader. Which of the following was most likely true for Harriet during the application process?

According to Fiedler's contingency model, task-oriented leaders are most effective in situations of high or low control.

One assumption of the trait view of leadership is that leaders cannot be trained.

Studies regarding the Fiedler model have shown that respondents' questionnaire scores tend to be relatively stable.

What is the main principle of path-goal theory?

Leo supervises a global team of project members based in multiple countries. Marta is Brazilian; Jean-Paul is French, Amit is Egyptian, and Xiang is Chinese. Leo is American and is based in the United States. -In carrying out a transformational approach to overseeing the project, Leo strives to implement the universal elements of transformational leadership. He most likely implements all of the following except ________.

If a leader's main concern is accomplishing his/her group's tasks, the University of Michigan studies label this leader ________.

According to the University of Michigan studies, production-oriented leadership is defined as the extent to which a leader tends to emphasize the technical or task aspects of the job.

Compare and contrast Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership theory with House's path-goal theory.

As you have observed your department manager and her interactions with the department's employees, you have come to believe in LMX theory. Sarah and Joe get less of the manager's time. Sally gets fewer of the preferred rewards that the manager controls and John has a relationship with the manager based on formal authority interactions. Rebecca is trusted. Jennifer gets a disproportionate amount of the manager's attention and is more likely to receive special privileges -According to LMX theory, the in-group is likely to be composed of ________.

Your company's HR director is a believer in trait theories of leadership. He believes that he can differentiate leaders from non-leaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics. The HR director plans to promote Lawrence, a highly extroverted manager with a great deal of ambition and energy. Furthermore, the president of the company is preparing to retire, and the HR director is searching for her replacement. He asks for your expertise in helping him to apply trait theory to leadership selection within your company. -The director believes that because of these innate characteristics, Lawrence will be highly effective at helping the company achieve its production goals. You advise the director against this decision because ________.

One advantage of the Fiedler model is that its contingency variables are simple and easy to assess.

Explain the principles of Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership theory.

Hersey and Blanchard developed which of the following?

Explain the differences between charismatic, transformational, and authentic leadership. Could an individual display all three types of leadership?

Fiedler labels the degree of confidence, trust, and respect that subordinates have in their leader as ________.

Which of the following would not be a likely outcome of a workplace governed by a transformational leader?

In the leader-member exchange theory, leaders don't treat all of their subordinates alike.

Emotional intelligence is so critical to effective leadership because one of its core components is ________.

The leader-participation model provides a set of rules that leaders can use to determine the appropriate leadership behavior for a given task structure.