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The corporate uniforms worn by UPS and Federal Express True/False 1. A cultural symbol is any object, act, or event that serves to transmit cultural meaning. 2. The corporate uniforms worn by UPS and Federal Express delivery personnel are examples of cultural symbols. 3. Organizational culture often specifies when various types of actions are appropriate and where individual members stand in the social system. 4. Cultura ...

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Rituals are embellished heroic accounts of the story True/False 1. The second level of cultural analysis focuses on common cultural assumptions, which are the taken-for-granted truths that collections of corporate members share as a result of their joint experiences. 2. Many consultants suggest that organizations should develop a dominant and coherent set of shared values. 3. The deepest level of cultural analysis focuses on sh ...

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Conger and Kanungo developed a five-stage charismatic leadership model True/False 1. Leaders with whom followers have close contact and those with whom they seldom, if ever, have direct contact are both described as charismatic leaders who possess similar traits and behaviors. 2. Conger and Kanungo developed a five-stage charismatic leadership model. 3. Transformational leadership involves leader-follower exchanges necessary fo ...

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A leader who is high in initiating structure is concerned True/False 1. The results of the Michigan leadership studies indicated that production-centered supervisors tended to have more productive work groups than employee-centered supervisors. 2. Sometimes the more general terms of human relations oriented leadership and task oriented leadership are used to refer, respectively, to employee-centered supervisors and production-cente ...

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Leader-Member Exchange Theory True/False 1. Current assessments of path-goal theory by well-known scholars have pointed out that most aspects have been thoroughly validated. 2. Hersey and Blanchard’s situational leadership theory focuses on the situational contingency of maturity, or “readiness,” of followers. 3. Hersey and Blanchard argue that situational leadership requires adjusting the leader’s e ...

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The formal right conferred by the firm 1. __________ is the extent to which a manager can use extrinsic and intrinsic rewards to control other people. 2. __________ power is the extent to which a manager can deny desired rewards or administer punishments to control other people. 3. The source of ________________ power is the placing of an individual in a position to influence how inputs are transformed into outputs from a fir ...

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Michigan leadership studies 1. The earliest approach to studying leadership is the __________. a) behavioral approach. b) methodical approach. c) contingency approach. d) scientific approach. e) great person-trait approach. 2. The __________ assumes that leadership behaviors are central to performance and other outcomes. a) behavioral perspective. b) trait perspective. c) contingency perspective. d) contemporary persp ...

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Avoidance strategy in the politics of self-protection 1. With respect to political action and subunit power, __________ linkages involve contacts with units that precede or follow in a sequential production chain. 2. In the context of political action and subunit power, __________ linkages involve contacts with units that are established to help with problems. 3. _______________ is an avoidance strategy in the politics of self- ...

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Substitutes for leadership can prevent a leader True/False 1. Substitutes for leadership can prevent a leader from behaving in a certain way or nullify the effects of a leader’s actions. 2. Leaders make attributions about subordinate performance and react differently depending on those attributions. 3. Leadership prototypes are an alternative way to the inference-based approach to access leadership and are termed recogni ...

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Political self-protection approach 1. __________ is a political self-protection approach of redirecting responsibility by defining the task in such a way that it becomes someone else’s formal responsibility. 2. __________ is a political self-protection approach of redirecting responsibility by taking action only when all the paperwork is in place and it is clear that procedures are being followed. 3. __________ is a polit ...

Other / Other 28 Mar 2016