Chapter 16

Question 1

Leadership

Answer 1

• Influencing employees to voluntarily pursue organizational goals
• influence others to acheive a common goal

Question 2

Leadership Traits

Answer 2

• Intelligence- found to be the best predictor of leadership
• dominance
• self confidence
• levels of energy and activity
• task relevant knowledge
• appearance of height

Question 3

Initiating vs. consideration

Answer 3

• initiating= task centered
• consideration= human side, supportive or employee centered

Question 4

Fiedler’s contingency model

Answer 4

• Leader-member relations
• task structure
• leader position power

Question 5

House’s path goal theory

Answer 5

The leader reduces roadblocks that interfere with goal accomplishment, provides guidance and support, ties meaningful rewards to goal accomplishment

**based on expectancy theory**

Question 6

servant- leadership

Answer 6

focuses on increased service to others rather than to oneself