Chapter 11 leadership

Question 1

What is leadership?

Answer 1

Leadership occurs when individuals exert influence on the goal achievement of others in an organizational behavior

Question 2

what goals can we get achieved by effective leadership?

Answer 2

Productivity
Innovation
Satisfaction
Commitement

Question 3

what are two types of leadership?

Answer 3

Strategic Leadership - ability to anticipate, vision and maintain flexibility, think strategically and work with others to initiate changes that will create a viable future for the organization

Formal Leadership

Question 4

What is an informal leadership? which means emergent leadership?

Answer 4

extent to which an individual with no formal status or authority is perceived by one or more team members as exhibiting leaderlikeinfluence.

One percieved by others as a leader

Question 5

What is shared leadership?

Answer 5

Emergent and dynamic team phenomenon which says leadership roles and influence are distributed among team members.

Question 6

What is positively related to team performance and creativity?

Answer 6

Shared Leadership

Question 7

What can strategic leaders provide to an organization?

Answer 7

with a sustainable competitive advantage by helping their organizations compete in turbulent and unpredictable environments and by exploring growth opportunities.

Question 8

since informal leaders do not have formal authority, they must rely on being what?

Answer 8

rely on being liked or being perceived as highly skilled to exert influence

Question 8

What is trait theory of leadership?

Answer 8

it says leadership depend on the personal qualities or traits of the leader.

Question 9

What are the traits associated with leadership effectiveness?

Answer 9

Intelligence
energy and drive
self confidence
dominance
motivation to lead
emotional stability
honesty and integrity
need for achievement
sociability

Question 10

which 3 are that research on leadership traits are mostly focused on?

Answer 10

demographic
Task competence
interpersonal attributes

Question 11

which are these personality traits mostly linked to?

Answer 11

Extraversion
Conscientiousness

Question 12

What is narcissism?

Answer 12

Personality trait that combine grandiosity, attention seeking inflated self-view

Question 13

What is one individual variable seems to be especially important for leadership?

Answer 13

Motivation to lead

Question 14

What are the limitations of trait approach?

Answer 14

Sometimes the leaders get chosen because of their traits(tall) which starts bias and discrimination

Question 15

What is leadership categorization theory?

Answer 15

People are more likely to view somebody as leader and to evaluate them a a more effective leader when they possess prototypical characteristics of leadership.

Question 16

what is the most crucial problem of the trait approach to leadership

Answer 16

Failure to consider the situation in which leadership occurs

Question 17

What is behavioral approach of leadership?

Answer 17

concern with what leaders bring to group setting which limitation is does not consider what leaders do in group setting

Question 18

What are the two basic kinds of behavior?

Answer 18

Consideration
Initiating structure

Question 19

What is consideration?

Answer 19

extent to which a leader is approachable and shows personal concern and respect for employees.
Offer support, protective, friendly

Question 20

What is initiating structure?

Answer 20

degree to which a leader concentrates on group goal attainment.
define goals, stresses standard procedures, schedule the work to be done and assigns employees to particular tasks

Question 21

What does consideration lead to?

Answer 21

More follower satistaction and leader satisfaction

Question 22

What does initiating structure leads to ?

Answer 22

Leaders job performance and group performance

Question 23

what are some more examples of leader behavior

Answer 23

1. leader reward behavior - compliments, tangible benefits, special treatments
2. leader punishment behavior - use of reprimands or unfavorable task assignments withholding promotion

Question 24

What does the contingent in both of these will lead to and why?

Answer 24

more strong relationship between each other.
lead to more positive perception of justice and lower role ambiguity

Question 25

What are situational theories of leadership?

Answer 25

refers to the setting in which influence attempts to occur. effectiveness of leadership style is contingent on the setting.

Question 26

What 3 things the setting include in situational leadership?

Answer 26

Characteristics of the employee
Characteristics of the organization
Nature of the task they are performance

Question 27

What are two situational leadership theories?

Answer 27

1. House’s path-goal theory
2. Fielders contingency theory

Question 28

What is fielders contingency theory?

Answer 28

it is the association between leadership orientation and group effectiveness depends on extent to which situation is favorable for the exertion of influence.

Meaning some situations are more favorable for leadership than others.

Question 29

What is the process of filders contingency theory?

Answer 29

Start with leader describing least preferred worker
if it is
favorable (HIGH LPC)- relationship oriented
unfavorable (LOW LPC) - task oriented

Question 30

What personality trait does this process of contingency theory reveals?

Answer 30

HIgh LPC= motivated to maintain interpersonal relations
Low LPC = motivated to accomplish a task

LPC is an attitude of the leader toward work relationships

Question 31

When does a situation is considered to be most favorable?

Answer 31

when relationship between the worker and the leader is good
task at hand is highly structured
when the leader has been granted formal authority by the organization to tell other what to do(position power)

Question 32

What is the house’s path-goal thoery?

Answer 32

concerned with the situations under which various leader behaviors are most effective

Question 33

Why does it called path-goal thoery?

Answer 33

the most important activities of leaders are those that clarify the paths to goals of interest to employees. Goals- a promotion, sense of accomplishment or a pleasant work climate

Question 34

what are the 4 specific kind of leader behavior path-goal is concerned with?

Answer 34

directive
participative
suppotive
achievement oriented - encourage employees to exert high effort and strive for a high level of goal accomplishment

Question 35

what are the 2 primary classes of situational factors path-goal concerned with

Answer 35

environmental factors
employee characteristics

Question 36

where should employees who are high need achieve shouls work under?

Answer 36

achievement oriented

Question 37

What is participative leadership?

Answer 37

part of the path-goal theory