Chapter 14: Leading and Leadership Development

Someone with a clear sense of the future and the actions needed to get there is considered a _________ leader

• task-oriented

• people-oriented

• visionary

• transactional

Leader power = _________ power + _________ power.

• reward, punishment

• legitimate, position

• reward, expert

• position, personal

A manager who says “because I am the boss, you
must do what I ask” is relying on power

• reward

• legitimate

• expert

• referent

When a leader assumes that others will do as she asks because they want to positively

identify with her, she is relying on ______ power to influence their behaviour

• expert

• referent

• legitimate

• reward

he personal traits now considered important for managerial success include ______

• self-confidence

• gender

• age

• height

In the leader-behaviour approaches to leadership, someone who does a very good job of

planning work, setting standards, and monitoring results would be considered a(n) ______

leader

• task-oriented

• control-oriented

• achievement-oriented

• employee-centred

When leader behaviour researchers concluded that “high-high” was the pathway to

leadership success, what were they referring to?

• High initiating structure and high integrity

• High concern for task and high concern for people

• High emotional intelligence and high charisma

• High job stress and high task goals

A leader whose actions indicate an attitude of “do as you want, and don’t bother me” would

be described as having a(n) ______ leadership style.

• autocratic

• country club

• democratic

• laissez-faire

In Fiedler’s contingency model, both highly favourable and highly unfavourable leadership

situations are best dealt with by a ______ leader.

• task-motivated

• laissez-faire

• participative

• relationship-motivated

______ leadership model suggests that leadership style is strongly anchored in personality

and therefore hard to change

• Trait

• Fiedler’s

• Transformational

• Path-goal