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30 Cards in this Set
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As leaders, senior managers are expected to:
use power and influence to achieve personal goals foster work environments conducive to learning and self-renewal promote stability engage in routine interactions |
foster work environments conducive to learning and self-renewal
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Understanding leadership as a process:
involves an understanding of followers does not involve motivating subordinates does not mean changes does not involve communication. |
involves an understanding of followers
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One way of looking at leaders and managers is:
managers promote change; leaders promote stability leaders promote change; managers promote stability leaders promote both stability and change neither leaders nor managers are involved with stability |
leaders promote change; managers promote stability
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The managerial grid perspective:
is similar to transformational leadership was developed by Bass is a situational contingency approach is similar to the Ohio State studies |
is similar to the Ohio State studies
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The most effective style in the leadership grid is:
country club management task management team management impoverished management |
team management
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Leader trait and behavioural approaches assume that traits and behaviours:
are equally important with other variables are more important than other variables are caused by other variables explain the romance of leadership |
are more important than other variables
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In House’s path–goal theory, letting subordinates know what is expected is an example of leader:
directiveness supportiveness achievement orientation employee-centeredness |
directiveness
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Performance contingent reward behaviour is:
the degree to which a leader administers punishment related to performance the degree to which a leader rewards or positively reinforces performance a behavioural theory of leadership a substitute for leadership |
the degree to which a leader rewards or positively reinforces performance
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Management by exception and laissez-faire behaviours represent which type of leadership?
charismatic transformational transactional inspirational |
transactional
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Bass’s leadership approach:
has been researched extensively but more research needs to be done has little research support is only now being systematically researched emphasises managerial actions |
has been researched extensively but more research needs to be done
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According to Bass, which is the more realistic way of looking at leadership?
in terms of a one-way relationship between leader and follower as a transactional relationship only as a transformational and transactional relationship in terms of organisations influencing followers |
as a transformational and transactional relationship
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Substitutes for leadership:
have replaced Fiedler’s approach rely most heavily on leader training are related to job characteristics involve changing leader LPC scores |
are related to job characteristics
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In Fiedler’s contingency theory, the three variables which define the amount of control a situation allows the leader are: leader-member relations, task structure and…
expert power position power complexity leader structuring |
position power
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The advice to match leadership style with leadership situations is most associated with which kind of leadership approach?
trait behavioural situational contingencies symbolic |
situational contingencies
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Which leadership theory argues that a leader’s key function is to act in ways that complement the work setting in which subordinates operate?
trait behavioural path–goal multiple influence |
path–goal
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In House’s path–goal theory, letting subordinates know what is expected is an example of leader:
directiveness supportiveness achievement orientation employee-centeredness |
directiveness
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Who started the situational contingency era with his contingency theory of leadership effectiveness?
Fred Fiedler Robert House Kurt Lewin Bernard Bass |
Fred Fiedler
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In alternative cultures, similar leadership behaviours are carried out:
in similar ways in different ways by different people by managers only |
b. in different ways
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The ‘glass ceiling’ is referred to as:
corporate status corporate hierarchy corporate leadership corporate management |
corporate hierarchy
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The age of leaders today is:
an important current diversity issue an important issue when re-training staff important only when promotion takes place not important at all |
an important current diversity issue
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What is the distinction between leadership and management? Mark the right answer.
a. Management is primarely concerned with administration within a stable context, while leaders provide inspiration, and motivate people to gain (and then use) their support on fundamental long-term choices. b. managers are in charge of developing and getting support for the company´s vision and for the crafting of the overall direction and strategy of the organization. Leaders on the other hand generally emphasize on coaching and motivating people to get them to enhance their work efforts c. Managers are both leaders and administrators thus there no major difference between a manager and a leader. |
a. Management is primarely concerned with administration within a stable context, while leaders provide inspiration, and motivate people to gain (and then use) their support on fundamental long-term choices.
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Leadership is a special case of ..................influence that gets an individual or group to do what the leader wants done. Choose the missing word among the alternatives below.
a. intrapersonal b. interpersonal c. intergroup |
b. interpersonal
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We have two major leadership categories. Choose the right alternative among the alterntatives below.
a. formal management and leadership b. informal and formal management c. informal and formal leadership |
informal and formal leadership
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Mark the correct definition of informal leadership among the alternatives below.
a. the process of exercising influence through special skills or resources that meet the needs of other people b. the process of exercising informal power to achieve personal benefits c. the process of exercising formal influence in an informal way |
a. the process of exercising influence through special skills or resources that meet the needs of other people
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In the textbook the two leadership perspectives - the traditional leadership and the new leadership. Within the new leadership perspective we have two major leadership types. Below you will find three alternatives. Please mark the one perspective that is wrong.
a. Leader traits and behaviours b. transformal leadeship c. charismatic leadership |
a. Leader traits and behaviours
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Trait theory is the earliest approach used to study leadeship and dates back to the turn of the 20th century. After almost a century fo study there is clearly no "magic "bullet" for leader effectiveness in aspects relating to traits or various aspects of personality and attitiudes. However there are some traits theories that are frequently applied to improve the recruting processes in the western world. One of most popular among these theories are BIG 5 NEO-PI-R which has been cultural adapted to a no of countries e.g. Norway. Below you find all five of the BIG 5 theory and also a 6th factor which is wrong. You shall mark the 6th factor that is wrong.
a. masculine - feminine b. extroversion - introversion c. conscientiousness d. agreeableness e. emotional stability f. openness to experience |
a. masculine - feminine
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Fiedler applied an instrument called the ................ to mesure a person´s leadership style.
Mark below the missing alternative in the sentence above. a. leader–member exchange (LMX) scale b. the least prefered co-worker (LPC) scale c. Likert scale |
b. the least prefered co-worker (LPC) scale
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Fiedler´s cognitive resource theory is a further development of his previous cognitive theory. According to latter approach the behaviour depends on the four situational contingencies listed below. In addition to these four there is a fifth alternative that is wrong. You shall mark the wrong alternative.
a. the motivation of the leader or subordinate group members b. the leader´s or subordinate group member´s ability/competency c. stress d. experience f. group support of the leader |
a. the motivation of the leader or subordinate group members
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House´s path-goal theory of leadership is another situational contingencies theory. It emphasizes how a leader influences employees´ perceptions of both work goals and ME LTD (personal) goals and links or paths found between these two sets of goals. House´s path-goal theory represents a process approach to leadership that takes into account three interrelated variables. Taking these three aspects together, they can lead to outputs that enhance the organization, the employee and the leader.
Below you find the 3 interrelated variables and a fourth that this wrong. You have to mark the wrong variable. a. Leadership factors b. context/contingency c. Employee motivation/outcomes d. Employee attributes |
d. Employee attributes
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One major concept of leadership was originally developed by Bernard Burns (1978) and was revised and enhanced by Bernard Bass in the 1980ties Mark the correct alternative of this concept among the alternatives below.
a. the transactional and the transforming leadership approach b. the laissez faire leadership and the transforming approach c. the transformational and transactional leadership approach |
c. the transformational and transactional leadership approach
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