GMS 200 - CHAPTER 14

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

• Task-oriented

• People-oriented

• Transactional

• Visionary

Leader power = _____ power + _____ power.

• Reward, punishment

• Reward, expert

• Legitimate, position

• 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

The 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