Deck 5: Charisma and Transformational Leadership

Question 1

Transformational leadership suggests a successful leader changes or transforms followers into avid disciples.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What is it that might allow a leader to be considered charismatic?

A) Charisma' is a word used throughout modern society but it remains an elusive target in terms of defining what is a charismatic leadership influence.
B) Being charismatic is a transactional attribute which impacts upon the power base of the leader in their transactions.
C) The word 'charisma' can be traced back to the impact of rock stars on future generations in terms of their following of previous music icons.
D) The term 'charisma' can be traced to the UK 1990s television programme Spitting Image in terms of its depiction of Prime Minister John Major in terms of his extroverted personality.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Handy (1984) said:
"Charisma is a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a leader."

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The notion of charisma lies with the motivational power wielded by individuals who have been labelled 'charismatic' by their followers.

Question 5

What is the ideal of the charismatic, visionary leader?

A) As a limiting one of conciliation which utilises democratic principles to dissuade followers.
B) As a powerful one which pervades many aspects of business, politics, and sport
C) One which is perceived as a modern interpretation of forceful leadership which dissuades followers
D) The charismatic leader is akin to followership based in the needs of the followers rather than the leader.

Question 6

For the leader to be charismatic, it is unimportant to create a shared mental model nor to create a collective identity with folllowers.

Question 7

'Self-concept theory', was developed by Shamir et al. (1993) from House's (1976) earlier work. What is the basis of the theory?
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A) That the individual needs to consider the self first in order to ensure their needs are met first
B) The idea rests on the presumption that humans create mental images of themselves and seek ways of affirming and reinforcing this self-identity
C) That the individual presumes that their interpretation of the world is an accurate and the only way of interpreting the world around them.
D)That the needs of others rather than the self need to be the focus of leadership and that affirming and reinforcing the needs of others is key to self-concept

Question 8

What is the basis of the model developed by Austrian psychologist, Fritz Heider in 1958?

A) The view was that individuals observes events but do not make causal inferences to explicate occurrences which become embedded within a person's psyche and these cannot be used to make judgements about the world.
B) The view was that individuals need not observe events to make causal inferences to implied situations which become embedded within a person's psyche as these cannot be used to make judgements about the world type option here.
C) The view was that as individuals observes events and makes causal inferences to explicate occurrences these become embedded within a person's psyche and then are used to make judgements about the world
D) The view was that as individuals needlessly observe events to make causal inferences to implied situations these become embedded within a person's psyche and then are used to make judgements about the world

Question 9

Bass and Avolio (1995) developed the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) to discard elements which were not party to any charismatic approach.

Question 10

What does Reich's piece, The Executive's New Clothes (1985), seek to illustrate?

A) This is an example where the downfall of the organization was found to be attributable to the individual's 'leadership' rather than attributable to environmental factors, such as economic cycles.
B) This an example considered as an observable behavioural process that can be described and analysed in terms of a formal model where followers are apt to attribute success to a person.
C)This is an example where followers are apt to attribute success to a person identified as the 'leader' given their interaction between dependent variables
D) This is an example where the success of the organization was found to be attributable to environmental factors, such as economic cycles, rather than 'leadership'.