Leadership Material - Question Format Flashcards
Which theory is based on the premises that power and influence involves relations between at least two parties? This theory recognizes that leaders draw from sources of power most often in conbinations to motivate a follower or subordinate.
Bases of Social Power Theory
Which Theory model speculates that categories of human needs are arranged in a predetermined in order of importance? This theory dictates the concept of the lowest level of needs is associated with physiological needs whilethe uppermost level is associated with self-actualization needs. Once an individual moved upward to the next level, needs within the lower level will no longer be a priority.
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
What type of activity directly contributes to an organization’s clearly defined quality outputs?
Value-added Activity
What is a mode of thorough change made in anticipation of fututre events?
Tuning
What is a leadership approach consisting of a set of principles and procedures that maximize the production and delivery of high quality goods and services in an organization? This type of leadership adapts the approach of making continuous improvements.
Total Quality Management
What is a major reponse an organization takes in anticipation of external events that may ultimately require change?
Reorientation
What is a major change necessitated by external events?
Recreation
What is an organization that had adapted the concept of “change for learning and learning involves change”? This type of organization is skilled at creating, acquiring,and transfering knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect knowledge and insight.
Learning Organization
What is the change that occurs in response to key eternal events?
Reactive Change
What is a change that affects the entire organization?
Major Change
What is a change to individual components of the organization?
Incremental Change
What is initiated in anticipation of key external events?
Anticipatory change
What is the process imposed on an organization that requires the organization to respond?
Change
What is the process of comparing a unit’s work and service methods against best practices others use in order to identify where changes may be necessary?
Benchmarking
What is an organizational problem solving process consisting of several stages of activity through which an organization adapts to change?
Adaptive-coping cycle
Which type of leadership is not an exchange process but an appeal to follower’s sense of values beyond their own personal interests?
Transformational Leadership
What type of leadership falls under the concept of an exchange relationship to which the leader and the follower are engaged in economic,social, or psychological trading? This form of the exchange may be negotiable and is constrained by moral values.
Transactional Leadership
What is the component of transformational leadership that describes leaders who encourage innovation and creativity through challenging the moral beliefs or views of the group?
Intellectual Stimulation
What is the component of transformational leadership that describes leaders who motivates followers to commit to the vision of the organization?
Inspirational Motivation
What is the component of transformational leadership that describes a leader who act as coaches and advisors to follower?
Individualized Consideration
What is the component of transformational leadership that describes leaders who are exemplary role models?
Idealized Influence
What are the four I’s of transformational leadership?
- Idealized Influence
- Individualized Consideration
- Inspirational Motivation
- Intellectual Stimulation
What are the four components that makes up transformational leadership?
The Four I’s
What is the special personal quality or power of an individual quality or power of an individual making him or her capable of influencing or inspiring large numbers of people through their perceived social relationship to that person?
Charisma
What was conceived by John Venn which shows the logical relationship between things with an overlapping circle-style illustration?
Venn Diagram
What type of relationship is articulated within the Social Exchange Theory that is described as a cooperative, mutually beneficial connect between two people or groups?
Symbiotic Relationship
Which theory relies on the concept that all human interaction is a product of a type of cost-benefit analysis and the comparison of alternatives? This theory believes that when a person perceives the cost of a relationship as outweighting the perceived benefits, then that person will choose to leave the relationship.
Social Exchange Theory
Which school of thought believe that tasks should be broken down to small repetitive functions? This school of thought alo believe that workers are basically lazy and cannot really contribute to organizational goals.
School of Scientific Management
Which school of thought relies on the concept that suggests work should be scientifically analyzed, allowing a cost benefit perspective on work flows that should minimize all inefficiencies?
School of Scientific Management
Which school of thought came after the school of human relations? This school of thought operates on the concept that workers will actively seek to meet organizational goals as psychological and social needs are met.
School of Human Resources
Which school of thought came after the School of Scientific Management? This school of thouight suggests workers are motivated by being included in management planning.
School of Human Relations
What are the principles of human motivation that theorized two different sets of beliefs about motivating workers that reflect the core beliefs of the School of Scientific Management and the Human Resource Schools of Thought?
Theory X and Theory Y
What is the follower’s overt or covert refusal to respond to the leader’s attempt to influence?
Resistance
What is the ability to exert influence; that is the ability to change the attitudes or behavior of individuals or group?
Power
What best describes the follower’s acceptance of the leader’s influence including the leader’s internal or underlying beliefs?
Internalization
Which leadership concepts is similar to banking and account management?
Idiosyncrasy Credits
What is the concepts that revolves around the Leader, who is the bank in the follower’s mind, and the influence is the credit that gets deposited into the bank by followers and workers within their mind? The more credit the leader have in their bank accounts, the more influence they will have over the followers or workers.
Idiosyncrasy Credits
What is the follower’s acceptance to the leader’ influence beacause the leader is attractive, likeable source worthy of emulation?
Identification
What does a leader gain when the follower has accepted the leader’s influence? This is evidenced by the follower’s behavior.
Compliance
What type of power exist when the follower give control to the leader based on the belief or understanding that the leader has specific knowledge or relevant expertise that the follower does not? This is also called information Power.
Expert Power
What type of power exist when there is a desire from the follower or subordinate to be like, or identifies with the leader?
Reference Power
What type of power exists when subordinate or followers acknowledges that the leader has a “right” or is lawfully entitled to exert influence within certain bounds? This is also called formal authority.
Legitimate Power
What type of power is the negative side of Reward Power? This negative side of the leader’s ability to punish the follower or subordinate for not carrying out expressed or implied directions.
Coercive Power
What type of power exists when control devrives from a leader who has the ability to reward the follower or subordinate for carrying out expressed or implied consent?
Reward Power
What type of organization member demonstrates a varying level of critical thinking and varying levels of engagement in the organization’s mission?
Pragmatist Follower
Who is the person or group that the focal person uses to evaluate the equity or inequity of his/her exchange relationship?
Reference Source
What type of conflict occurs when one group’s perception of how long work should take is different from another group’s perception of how long it should take?
Time Orientation
What type of conflicts is created by the way in which work products are measured? One group may generate an easily measurable product while another generates a product that is more difficult or impossible to measure.
Tangible Nature of Work
Which strategy does a leader uses, when the leader creates an overarching goal that requires conflicting groups to achieve an objective critically important to all groups, but that can only be achieved through intergroup cooperation?
Superordinate Goal
Which strategy does a leader uses when the leader bring members of conflicting groups together to identify, discuss, and resolve intergroup conflict after conflict as developed?
Problem Solving
Which type of conflict is brough about when groups are not located together? The vast area coverage an organization has keeps members from getting to know each other.
Physical Separation
Which strategy does a leader uses when the leader acts to prevent or reduce the chance of conflict by forming a group with representatives from all groups to identify and resolve potential conflict?
Liaison Group
Which type of conflict occurs when the actions and tone of a group in pursuit of its goals generates conflict with another group in pursuit of its goal because the grorup don’t share the same goal?
Goal Orientation
Which type of Conflict is brought about by little or no interaction between groups?
Frequency of Interaction
Which strategy does a leader uses when the leader mandates a solution to groups that are experiencing conflict with each other?
Forcing
Which type of intergroup conflict occurs when two or more groups fight over limited resources like money, people, and facilities?
Competition over scarce resources
Which strategy does a leader uses when the leader monitors a conflict, but does not get involved in its resolution? The leader allows the conflict to run its course and/or let those in the conflict to resolve it.
Avoidance
What type of Intergroup conflict occurs when a leader issues vague instructions to subordinates groups, allowing seperate groups to interpret their meaning and how to accomplish the task?
Ambiguous Work Assignment