Leadership - Understanding Leadership

Which leadership approach examines how leaders use values, a sense of “calling,” and membership to motivate followers?

• servant leadership

• spiritual leadership

• authentic leadership

• transformational leadership

The ______ approach to leadership is focused on identifying the innate qualities and characteristics possessed by great social, political, and military leaders.

• behavioral

• situational

• relational

• trait

From a relationship perspective, leadership is centered on the ______ between leaders and followers rather than on the unique ______ of the leader.

• synergy; approach

• communication; qualities

• harmony; technique

• alliance; perspective

Which perspective defines leadership as an interactive event that occurs between the leader and the followers?

• influence

• ability

• skill

• trait

______ theory focuses on the match between the leader’s style and specific situational variables.

• Path-Goal

• Great Man

• Relational

• Contingency

Task and process are the main components when leadership is considered a(n) ______.

• skill

• behavior

• trait

• ability

When viewed as a ______, leadership can be studied and learned.

• skill

• quality

• power

• all of these

In order to lessen the possibility that leaders might act toward followers in ways that are forced and unethical, it is important to:

• empower followers

• define rules

• create boundaries

• 
  stress mutuality

Both leadership and management involve ______, but leadership is about seeking constructive ______, and management is about establishing ______.

• people; visions; relationships

  
  

• change; procedures; practice

• skill; order; formality

• influence; change; order

Leaders affect and are affected by followers when leadership is conceptualized as a ______.

• conversation

• relationship

• task

• responsibility