Deck 7: A: Leadership and Management Communication

Question 1

Employee empowerment focuses on managerial behaviors such as monitoring performance,improving work methods,processing suggestions,and facilitating implementation of the suggestions.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Fred Fiedler suggested that leader effectiveness could be evaluated only in relationship to how style choices related to contingencies in particular situations.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Participative strategies for leadership are based on a belief that others are competent,will participate,and,therefore,really do not need leadership.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Bennis and Nanus suggested that a problem in many organizations is that we have too many leaders and not enough effective managers.

Question 5

Transactional leadership requires leaders to motivate followers by personal example,through appeals to higher level needs,and by the establishment of a vision.

Question 6

Autocratic leadership strategies are used by leaders who seek to have followers implement decisions with little or no follower input.

Question 7

Dispersed leadership is also known as SuperLeadership.

Question 8

Dispersed leadership is characterized by leaders attempting to develop leadership in others.

Question 9

An information society requires leadership from diverse organizational positions,not just from managers.

Question 10

Research does not clearly relate the importance of communication competence to overall managerial effectiveness.

Question 11

Early leadership theories assumed that great leaders were developed through training in the ability for leadership.

Question 12

Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership theory postulated that effectiveness of a particular leader was related to the leader's selection of behavior appropriate to the maturity level of the follower group.

Question 13

Leadership and management are essentially the same.

Question 14

Leadership takes place through communication.

Question 15

Empowerment requires leaders to give employees the maximum amount of power to do a job as they see fit.

Question 16

Blake and Mouton suggest that leadership styles or approaches are based on two central dimensions: concern for relationships with people and concern for task production.

Question 17

The style approach to studying leadership emphasizes the importance of a range of general approaches leaders use to influence goal achievement.

Question 18

Managers fulfill specifically defined roles designed to facilitate work to support organizational goals.

Question 19

The approach to the study of leadership which focuses on the specific characteristics of great leaders is known as the style approach.

Question 20

The trait and style approaches,when used in combination,have been able to comprehensively describe why particular approaches in leadership will work in one set of circumstances and fail in another.

Question 21

Leadership and management are really terms for the same skills.

Question 22

Argyris,Drucker,and Bennis define communication effectiveness as a central element for overall leadership effectiveness.

Question 23

Transformational leaders have a willingness to make and tolerate mistakes.

Question 24

Bennis believed future leaders will have to learn to create an environment that embraces change as an opportunity rather than a threat.

Question 25

According to Fiedler,the type of approach or style an effective leader would choose is dependent on task,relationship,power,and situation.

Question 26

Gardner contended outstanding leaders have a central story or message that creates a sense of community and group identity.

Question 27

Legitimate power comes from the ability to apply sanctions.

Question 28

Researchers are only now beginning to study leadership,although no one has yet come up with a definition of what a leader does.

Question 29

Bennis and Nanus contended the clearest distinction between leaders and managers is the passion leaders possess.

Question 30

Connection power is based on relationships with other people.

Question 31

The laissez-faire leader is really an example of a nonleader.

Question 32

High-speed management has as its goal the achievement and maintenance of sustainable competitive advantage through innovative,flexible,adaptive,efficient,and rapid response to change.

Question 33

Expert power is based on the knowledge,technical competencies,or expertise of the leader.

Question 34

Efficient management refers to maintaining the industry lead in world-class products,productivity,investor's equity,employee's satisfaction,customer support,product quality,and serviceability.

Question 35

Managers are expected to be leaders,although not all managers exhibit leadership behavior.

Question 36

Leadership includes understanding cultural orientation in order to help in decision making,problem solving,and conflict management.

Question 37

Reward power is limited to organizationally specified rewards such as salary and promotion.

Question 38

Those high in anxiety about communication are less likely to engage in leadership attempts than those lower in communication apprehension.

Question 39

A leader can be trusted and not liked at the same time.

Question 40

The newest theories of effective leadership suggest that leaders possess innate traits which make them effective.

Question 41

Principled leadership provides a consistent message,unleashes talent,practices ego suppression,and creates leaders.

Question 42

Discursive approaches to leadership focus on talk,text,and underlying assumptions which are discourses of power.

Question 43

Discursive approaches to leadership suggest power structures,often hidden,contribute to how leadership is enacted.

Question 44

Discursive approaches to leadership focus less on individuals and more on communication interactions than other leadership approaches.

Question 45

Jim Collins found that Level 5 leadership was common in both organizations that were successful and those that failed.

Question 46

Larson and LaFasto and Collins both suggested that principled leadership and excellence were related.

Question 47

Irrespective of the approach to leadership,communication competencies are necessary for excellence in leadership processes.

Question 48

Effective leaders use principled leadership behaviors to address task and procedural responsibilities but not interpersonal concerns.

Question 49

According to Larson and LaFasto's study of successful teams,the team,and not the leader,establishes a vision of the future.

Question 50

Positive self- and other-regard is closely related to Littlejohn and Jabusch's four communication competencies.