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60 Cards in this Set
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Leaders high in initiating structure engage in...
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monitoring subordinates' performance levels.
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Work facilitation behaviors deal with
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leaders acquiring and allocating resources.
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'Adequate organization performance is possible through balancing the necessity to get work out while maintaining morale of people at a satisfactory level.' In terms of the Leadership Grid, what leadership orientation does this signify?
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Middle-of-the-road management
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Building social capital
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is the power of relationships shared between individuals.
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Strategic differences with management and difficulty making strategic transitions are behaviors exhibited by derailed managers who
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have shown inability to develop or adapt to new bosses.
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As a difference between male-female patterns, females were more likely to derail because of
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their inability to deal with complex organizational issues.
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The insight component of the development pipeline concerned with
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providing leaders accurate feedback on their strengths.
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In this step of informal coaching, leaders determine what drives their followers and where they want to go with their careers.
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Forging a partnership
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Formal coaching
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begins with the manager's completion of an extensive battery of 360-degree feedback instruments.
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This occurs when the organization assigns a relatively inexperienced but high-potential leader to one of the top executives in the company.
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Formal mentoring
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Which of the following involves making judgments about the adequacy of behavior with respect to certain criteria such as work-group or organizational goals?
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Effectiveness
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Among the following underlying causes of performance problems, leaders seem to have the most difficulty recognizing and rectifying
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motivation problems.
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Which theory states that motivation is based on three levels of needs and that more than one need may operate at the same time?
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ERG theory
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Leaders can motivate followers with strong _____ values by giving them opportunities to improve society and help others who are less fortunate.
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altruism
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Some people are motivated to persist in certain behaviors for the simple reason that they like to do them. This is called
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intrinsic motivation.
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This occurs when leaders articulate high expectations for followers.
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Pygmalion effect
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One's core beliefs about being able to successfully perform a given task is called
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self-efficacy.
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Any consequence that increases the likelihood that a particular behavior will be repeated is called
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reward
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Transformational leadership uses _____ as the fuel to drive followers' heightened motivational levels.
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emotion
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Herzberg labeled the factors that led to satisfaction at work as
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motivators.
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The inefficiencies created by more and more people working together is called
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process losses.
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The clear emergence of a leader and the development of group norms and cohesiveness are the key indicators of the _____ stage of group development.
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norming
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This role conflict occurs when a store manager encourages a salesperson to mislead customers about the quality of the store's products when this behavior is inconsistent with the salesperson's values and beliefs.
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Person-role conflict
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The sum of forces that attract members to a group, provide resistance to leaving it, and motivate them to be active in it is called
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group cohesion.
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A highly cohesive group with members who overstep their boundaries or even violate laws to please the leader illustrates
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ollieism.
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According to Ginnett's model of team leadership, groups must grapple with the issues of leadership climate and competence. These fit best within the realm of
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authority.
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This refers to interactions among team members, including such aspects as how they communicate with others, express feelings toward each other, and deal with conflict with each other.
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Group dynamics
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According to Katzenbach and Smith, which of the following may be the most important single step in teamwork?
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Dream
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Which of the following is an authority dynamic?
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Team task
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Geographically dispersed teams are more commonly referred to as
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virtual teams.
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The role theory clarified how situational demands and constraints cause
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role conflict.
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Industrial age companies prospered by offering low-cost but standardized products and services. This pertains to
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customer segmentation.
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The degree to which a situation requires completion of a whole unit of work from beginning to end with a visible outcome is called
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task identity.
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Jeff works as a self-employed consultant. He decides when, where, and how he works based on market demand and personal preference. Jeff's job has a high degree of
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autonomy.
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Workers may be able to accomplish their tasks in an autonomous fashion, but the products of their efforts must be coordinated in order for the group to be successful. This refers to
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task interdependence.
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Typically, greater horizontal complexity is associated with
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the increased likelihood for communication breakdowns between subunits.
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An organization with a stable, well-established product line and the need for close coordination between functions would be best off with which type of design?
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Product
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This represents the degree to which a leader's work group is affected by the activities of other subunits within the organization.
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Lateral interdependence
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The root of extinction, both for an organization and for the population at large, is not attending to
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environmental characteristics.
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In terms of environmental uncertainty, structures in stable environments should be
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relatively formalized.
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The normative decision model is limited only to
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decision making.
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Which of the following statements about the normative decision model is true?
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For ease of presentation, each factor has been placed solely within one circle or another.
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Situational leadership theory has its roots in
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the Ohio State studies.
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Follower readiness refers to
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how ready an individual is to perform a particular task.
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What should leaders first assess in order to apply the situational leadership model?
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The readiness level of the follower relative to the task to be accomplished.
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The only situational consideration in situational leadership is
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knowledge of the task.
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The delegating leadership style has
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low task/low relationship behavior.
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Situational leadership theory suggests that the leader should base his behavior upon
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follower maturity.
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This is the weakest element of situational favorability.
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Position power
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Which leader behaviors are marked by attention to the competing demands of treating followers equally while recognizing status differentials between the leader and the followers?
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Supportive leadership
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The "M" in the rational change formula represents
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model
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What is the "fuel" for organizational change?
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Follower's emotions
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The type of thinking that occurs when leaders act to optimize their part of the organization at the expense of suboptimizing the organization's overall effectiveness is known as
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siloed thinking.
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Which of following is not a common form of resistance to change?
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Loss of charisma
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In this stage of coping with change, you start to question whether the company really knew what it was doing by letting you go and perhaps rationalize that they will probably be calling you back.
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Rejection
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Management skills are important for
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reviewing progress on change plans.
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This leadership serves to change the status quo by appealing to followers' values and their sense of higher purpose.
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Transformational
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Which of the following statements about transformational leaders is true?
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They are inherently future-oriented.
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Which of the following is perhaps the most important situational factor associated with charismatic leadership?
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Presence/absence of a crisis
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The FFM personality dimension of agreeableness most strongly correlates with which component of transformational leadership?
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Empowering others
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