Chapter 3 - Concepts And Dynamics Of Leadership

Question 1

Are subordinates more ready to follow: leadership power, coercive, reward power, Expert power, referent powers?

Answer 1

Expert and referent.

Expert: knowledge education credentials and skills build expert power
Referent: power is based on the admiration one has for another

Question 2

What is the difference between transactional leadership and transformational leadership

Answer 2

Transactional is one person takes the initiative, making contact with others for the purpose of the exchange of valued things. Transformational is when one or more persons engage with others in a way in which the leader and non leader raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality

Question 3

A function of transactional leadership is to maintain the groups or organizations operation rather than to change it.

Answer 3

Alternatively, transformational leadership ont he other hand focuses on the three behavior patterns of charisma, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration. Activities associated with transformational leadership is: creative vision, mobilization of commitment, institutionalization of change.

Question 4

what are the three leader-centered theories

Answer 4

Trait, behavior, personal-situational, interaction expectation

Question 5

What are the follower-and context centered theories

Answer 5

Situational, contingency, path-goal

Question 6

What is the leader-follower interactions centered theories?

Answer 6

Leader-follower exchange theory, transformational, psychodynamic approach

Question 7

What is a leader centered theory?

Answer 7

Focuses on the leaders’ traits, behaviors, personal characteristic and their relationship with the environment, and ability to initiate and fulfill expectations of group members.

Question 8

What is the follower and context centered theories definition

Answer 8

Reflects a significant advance over simplistic, universal, one-way leadership models.

Question 9

What is the definition of a leader follower interactions centered theories

Answer 9

Emphasize the process involved in the interactions of leaders and followers or group members.

Question 10

What is one reason that someone says transformational leadership is bad

Answer 10

They say that because there will be a time that leaders must be coercive

Question 11

Leadership should not be confused with

Answer 11

A position of rank. Nor should it be considered management.