OTB - Leadership, Power & Organisational Conflict

Leadership today is increasingly associated with the concept of ______________?

• command

• control

• getting others to follow

• strategy

Which of the following statements about leadership is false?

• When people operate as leaders their role is always clearly established and defined

• Leadership does not necessarily take place within a hierarchical structure of an organization

• Not every leader is a manager

• All the above

Referent power is based on the subordinate’s perception that the leader has a right to exercise influence because of the leader’s _______________.

• Expertise and knowledge

• Personal charisma

• Ability to punish or reward

• Role or position within the organization

According to Weber (1947), what type of situation is conducive to the emergence of charismatic leaders?

• economic stability

• social stability

• financial crisis

• social crisis

Which level of Maslow’s (1954) hierarchy of needs is encouraged in followers through transformational leadership?

• physiological and safety

• safety and belonging

• belonging and esteem

• esteem and self-actualization

Which of the following types of power is not among the ones studied in class?

• reward power

• informational power

• expert power

• employee power

The ability to influence people through granting or withholding benefits that are of interest to them is called.

• reward power

• coercive power

• export power

• reference power

The capacity to influence people and accomplish desired objectives is called:

• power

• leadership

• authority

• status

Coercive power may occur in which of the following organizations?

• service firm

• non-profit organization

• manufacturing firm

• all of the above

Mr. X is the only person in the company with knowledge in the E-Commerce field. This source of power is called

• reward power

• expert power

• reference power

• none of the above