What is Leadership

Which of the following has been identified as a source of power in leadership?

• reward 
• punishment 
• referent 
• all of the above 

Legitimate power in leadership stems from:

• organizational authority
• a role acknowledged by the followers
• leadership skills
• identification with other leaders
  

What is referent power in leadership?

• power that stems from a person's leadership skills
• power that is designated by an organizational authority
• power that group members acknowledge because of special circumstances
  
• power that is based on attraction or identification with another person

Which source of power comes from what others believe a member knows or can do?

• expert power 
• referent power 
• legitimate power 
• position power 

Which of the following is a trait of self-monitoring in terms of leadership?

• sensitivity to contextual cues
• social perception
• ability to respond flexibly in a given situation
• all of the above

Which of the following assumptions is characteristic of contingency approaches to leadership?

• Group situations vary with different situations, requiring different leadership styles.
• Members' skills and experience will affect the type of leadership likely to be effective.
• Cultural values will affect the type of leadership likely to be effective.
• all of the above

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

• reward power 
• coercive power 
• expert power 
• reference power 

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

• reward power 
• knowledge power 
• reference power 
• none of the above 

Michael is a type of manager who is concerned primarily with accomplishing goals and objectives and concentrates on the task itself. His behavioral style is called:

• authoritarian 
• democratic 
• task oriented 
• people oriented 

An approach to leadership in which the leader's behavior is first categorized on a scale from task orientation to people orientation, and efforts are made to find a work situation to which that particular style is best suited is called:

• Hersey-Blanchard theory.
• Vroom-Jago model.
• Vroom-Jago model.
  c. Fielder's LPC theory.
  path goal theory.
• Fielder's LPC theory.