Leadership C1b

Often leadership occurs within a context where one individual influences a group of others to accomplish goals. Which best describes this component of leadership?

• Leadership occurs in groups.

• Leadership involves influence.

• Leadership includes organizations.

• Leadership includes attention to common goals.

Watson and Hoffman's study on leadership emergence with regard to gender-biased perceptions would suggest ______.

• influential women were rated the same as men in terms of leadership

• women are much more likeable than men

• emergence in leadership has little to do with gender bias

• there continue to be barriers to women's emergence as leaders in some settings

Kotter suggested that management produces ______ and ______.

• change and structure

• vision and order

• order and consistency

• change and movement

You are trying to explain to your friend the difference between managers and leaders. You would be most accurate in saying ______.

• leaders and managers cannot coexist in an organization

• leaders make more money than managers

• managers maintain order and leaders seek change

• managers have more referent power than leaders

In which way will leadership and power be approached in upcoming chapters?

• as a form of coercion

• as positional power

• from the perspective of the follower

• as a relational concern for both leaders and followers

Understanding the nature of leadership has proved to be quite the challenge for practitioners and researchers because ______.

• its appeal is limited to academics and scholars

• very little research has been done

• it has not received much attention

• it is a highly valued phenomenon that is very complex

Your parents and older siblings are all successful elected officials. After graduation, it is suggested by many that you should seek office and, in turn, they offer you their support. Which best describes the leadership approach being demonstrated by your supporters?

• behavioral approach to leadership

• leadership as a process

• trait perspective

• expert power

As captain of the soccer team, your primary concern is winning games and maintaining the strength of the team. Your players couldn’t care less about teamwork and just want to win. Which component of leadership would you recommend the leader focus on?

• roles

• common goals

• process

• influence

The leader is at the core of group change and activity, representing the backbone of the group or organization. Leadership is viewed as ______.

• focus of group processes

• personality perspective

• leadership as an act

• leadership as a behavior

Jeffrey is the chief financial officer of an established marketing firm. He recently learned that the company is going to try to merge with a new firm. He shares this potential merger with only a few of his mid-level managers he trusts. Jeffrey has ______.

• information and referent power

• reward and referent power

• information and legitimate power

• personal and information power