HR Comp

Question 1

Leadership Approach: Coercive

Answer 1

Leader imposes a vision or solution

Question 2

Leadership Approach: Authoritative

Answer 2

Leader proposes a solution and invites team to join the challenge

Question 3

Leadership Approach: Affiliative

Answer 3

Leader creates strong relationships and encourages feedback

Question 4

Leadership Approach: Democratic

Answer 4

Leader invites followers to collaborate and acts by consensus

Question 5

Leadership Approach: Coaching

Answer 5

Leader develops team members’ skills

Question 6

Trait Theory

Answer 6

• Leaders possess innate characteristics
• Equates characteristics and leadership without evidence
• May discourage leader development

Question 7

Behavior School

Answer 7

Leaders influence group members through certain behaviors

Question 8

Blake-Mouton Theory

Answer 8

Low task (work to be done) High employee relationships
Examples: Country club mangers, impoverished managers, team leaders, authoritarian managers

Question 9

Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership

Answer 9

Leadership Style matches skills/experience of team members
Telling - Selling - Participating - Delegating

Question 10

Fielder’s Contingency Theory

Answer 10

Leaders change situations to make it more “favorable” and more likely to produce good outcomes

Question 11

Path-Goal Theory

Answer 11

Leaders help EE stay on track toward goals

Question 12

Emergent Leadership

Answer 12

• Leader is not appointed but emerges from the group
• The group chooses the leader based on integrations

Question 13

Transactional leader

Answer 13

• Emphasizes leader’s preference for order and structure
• More common in military and large, multinational organizations

Question 14

Transformational leader

Answer 14

• Emphasizes leader’s ability to inspire EE to embrace change
• Encourages communication, cooperation, collaboration

Question 15

Leader-member Exchange

Answer 15

• Focuses on 2-way relationship between leaders and chosen EE
• Can contribute to growth and productivity but can also create in-group and out-groups

Question 16

Servant leader

Answer 16

• Leader’s goal is to serve the needs of their EE
• Leaders tend to be more empathetic and more trusted by EE

Question 17

Legitimate power

Answer 17

Created formally through a title or position

Question 18

Reward power

Answer 18

Created when followers receive something they value in exchange for commitment

Question 19

Expert power

Answer 19

Created when a leader possesses great intelligence, insight, or experience

Question 20

Referent Power

Answer 20

Created by the force of leader’s personality

Question 21

Coercive Power

Answer 21

Created when the leader has the power to punish non-followers

Question 22

Theory X

Answer 22

Leaders believe that people must be strictly controlled and forced to work

Question 23

Theory Y

Answer 23

Leaders believe that EE dislike rigid controls and inherently want to accomplish something

Question 24

Maslow Needs Theory

Answer 24

Individuals are motivated by a desire to satisfy certain needs

Question 25

Maslow IDs 5 categories for needs that must be met, in an ascending order

Answer 25

1. Physiological
2. Safety and Security
3. Belonging and love
4. Esteem
5. Self-actualization