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A key way of differentiating between management and leadership True/False 1. A key way of differentiating between management and leadership is to argue that the role of management is to promote adaptive or useful change while the role of leadership is to promote stability or to enable the organization to run smoothly. 2. Both management and leadership are needed in an organization, and if managers do not assume responsibility for ...

Other / Other 28 Mar 2016

Strategies may be used by a company to alter its degree of resource dependence 1. Which one of the following statements accurately describes a key premise of agency theory? a) by protecting stockholder interests, all the interests of society are served. b) stockholders do not have a clear interest in greater returns. c) managers are self-interested and willing to sacrifice those self-interests for others (particularly stockholders. d ...

Other / Other 28 Mar 2016

Leader traits and behaviors can act in conjunction True/False 1. Some research in the United States, Britain, Hong Kong and Japan shows that leadership behaviors should be carried out in the same ways in alternative cultures. 2. Leader traits and behaviors can act in conjunction with situational contingencies to predict leader or organizational outcomes. 3. According to situational leadership theories, leader flexibility should ...

Other / Other 28 Mar 2016

The biggest controversy surrounding Fielder’s work True/False 1. According to Fiedler’s cognitive resource perspective, a leader should use directive or nondirective behavior depending on the following situational contingencies: the leader’s or subordinate group members’ ability or competency, stress, experience, and group support of the leader. 2. Cognitive resource theory views nondirective leader beh ...

Other / Other 28 Mar 2016

Robert House’s path-goal leadership theory True/False 1. Robert House’s path-goal leadership theory has its roots in the expectancy model of motivation. 2. House’s path-goal theory of leadership assumes that a leader’s key function is to adjust his or her behaviors to complement situational contingencies that influence the accomplishment of personal goals and organizational goals. 3. In Houseâ€â ...

Other / Other 28 Mar 2016

Leadership appears in two forms 1. The role of __________ is to promote adaptive or useful change. a) directing. b) management. c) leadership. d) administration. e) supervision. 2. __________ is the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives. a) supervision. b) direc ...

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Consideration is sometimes called socio-emotional leadership True/False 1. Initial results of the Ohio State leadership studies were deceptive in indicating that effective leaders were high on both consideration and initiating structure. 2. Consideration is sometimes called socio-emotional leadership and initiating structure is sometimes called task leadership. 3. Despite earlier beliefs, the Ohio State leadership studies concl ...

Other / Other 28 Mar 2016

Fiedler’s leadership contingency theory True/False 1. Fiedler’s leadership contingency theory holds that group effectiveness depends on an appropriate match between a leader’s style and the demands of the situation. 2. Fielder used an instrument called the least preferred co-worker scale to measure a person’s leadership style based on a description of the person with whom the respondent has been able to ...

Other / Other 28 Mar 2016

Trait theories indicate that leaders crave power True/False 1. Informal leadership is exerted by persons who become influential because they have special skills that meet the resource needs of others. 2. Trait perspectives assume that traits play a central role in differentiating between leaders and non-leaders or in predicting leader or organizational outcomes. 3. The “great person-trait approach” is a new approa ...

Other / Other 28 Mar 2016

A boss with the formal authority to approve or deny employee requests 1. The ability to get someone else to do something you want done or to make things happen the way you want is called __________. 2. __________ is what a person has when exercising power and it is expressed by others’ behavioral response to this exercise of power. 3. __________ argued that subordinates accept or follow directives from a boss only under s ...

Other / Other 28 Mar 2016