Chapter 12: Leadership in Organizational Settings

Question 1

leadership

Answer 1

influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members

Question 2

shared leadership

Answer 2

employees lead each other as the occasion arises

Question 3

Transformational leadership

Answer 3

create, communicate, and model a shared vision for the team or organization

Question 4

4 leadership perspectives

Answer 4

1. transformational
2. managerial
3. implicit
4. personal attributes

Question 5

4 elements of transformational leadership

Answer 5

1. develop and communicate a strategic plan
2. model the vision
3. encourage experimentation
4. build commitment to the vision

Question 6

managerial leadership

Answer 6

daily activities that support and guide the performance and well-being of individual employees and the work unit toward current objectives and practices

Question 7

managerial: task-oriented vs. people-oriented leadership

Answer 7

behaviors that define and structure

work roles vs. listening to and considering employees

Question 8

managerial: servant leadership

Answer 8

(people-oriented) serve others/assist others in their need fulfillment, personal development, and growth

Question 9

managerial: path–goal leadership theory

Answer 9

recognizes that leadership is an important influence in the expectancy theory of motivation and its underlying formula of rational decision making

Question 10

4 styles of path-goal leadership

Answer 10

1. directive (task-oriented)
2. supportive (people-oriented)
3. participative (involve team in decisions)
4. achievement-oriented (encourage peak performance)

Question 11

4 contingencies to path-goal leadership

Answer 11

1. skills/experience (employee)
2. locus of control (employee)
3. task structure (environmental)
4. team dynamics (environmental)

Question 12

situational leadership theory

Answer 12

effective leaders vary their style with the ability and motivation (or commitment) of followers

Question 13

4 situational leadership styles

Answer 13

telling, selling, participating, delegating

Question 14

Fiedler’s contingency model

Answer 14

leader effectiveness depends on whether the person’s natural leadership style is appropriately matched to the situation

Question 15

situational control

Answer 15

the degree of power and influence that the leader possesses in a particular situation

Question 16

leadership substitutes

Answer 16

conditions that either limit the leader’s ability to influence subordinates or make a particular leadership style unnecessary (may reduce, but not replace the need for leaders)

Question 17

implicit leadership theory

Answer 17

implicit leadership perspective has two components: leader prototypes and the romance of leadership

Question 18

2 components of implicit leadership

Answer 18

1. leadership prototypes (preconceived beliefs about the features and behaviors of effective leaders)
2. romance of leadership

Question 19

8 attributes of effective leaders

Answer 19

1. personality
2. self-concept
3. drive
4. integrity
5. leadership motivation
6. knowledge of business
7. cognitive and practical intelligence
8. emotional intelligence

Question 20

authentic leadership

Answer 20

how well leaders are aware of, feel comfortable with, and act consistently with their values, personality, and self-concept (know yourself, be yourself)

Question 21

vision

Answer 21

an idealized future state with a higher purpose