Organizational Leadership

Question 1

Judge, Colbert, Illie’s metaanalysis of leader intelligence and personality

Answer 1

.27 between intel/effect

Question 2

Judge, Bono, Illies, Gerehardt’s metaanalysis identified what 2 of the Big 5 correlated with leader effectiveness?

Answer 2

extraversion (.31) and conscientiousness(.28) have biggest effectiveness

Question 3

leader gender

Answer 3

men and women don’t differ in terms of effectiveness, but women seen more effective in feminine settings and men in masculine settings

Question 4

French and Raven leader power

Answer 4

reward power (rewards)
coercive power(punishment)
legitimate power (formality)
expert power (knowledge)
referent power (respected)

Question 5

Fiedler’s Contingency Model

Answer 5

assumption that most effective leadership depends on favorableness of the situation

Question 6

Situational Leadership Model- Hersey and Blanchard

Answer 6

job maturity

telling, selling, participating, delegating

Question 7

Fiedler’s task vs person oriented- LPC

Answer 7

least preferred coworker

Question 8

low lpc

Answer 8

task oriented

Question 9

high lpc

Answer 9

person oriented

Question 10

favorableness

Answer 10

the degree of influence the leader has over workers. affected by 3 factors- leader relations, task structure, position of power

Question 11

Path-Goal Theory (House)

Answer 11

assumption that effective leaders help their workers achieve personal goals

Question 12

Vroom-Yetton-Jago Contingency Model

Answer 12

leadership is a decision making process.

use a decision tree and matrices

Question 13

Leader-Member Exchange Theory (Dansereau, Graen, haga)

Answer 13

assumption that leader effectiveness and subordinate outcomes are determines by quality of interactions between leader/workers

Question 14

Transformational Leadership Theory

Answer 14

interplay between leaders and followers to raise each other to higher levels of ethics, motivation and morality