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20 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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trait
The advice to match leadership style with leadership situations is most associated with which kind of leadership approach? 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 |
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:
a. in similar ways b. in different ways by different people by managers only |
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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