Topic 5: LEADING

Question 1

Traits which are heavily dependent upon heredity

Answer 1

Emergent Traits

Question 2

Traits based on experience or learning including charisma as fundamental component of leadership

Answer 2

Effectiveness Traits

Question 3

Leaders have complete power over staff;
Staff and team members have little opportunity to
make suggestions

Answer 3

Autocratic Leadership Style

Question 4

Leaders make final decisions but include team members in the decision making;
Encourage creativity and team members are often highly engaged in projects and decisions

Answer 4

Democratic / Participative Leadership Style

Question 5

Put the needs, aspirations and interests of their followers above their own

Answer 5

Servant Leadership

Question 6

Serving others to be what they are capable of
becoming

Answer 6

Servant Leadership

Question 7

Valuing each person individually and to be mindful
of them as human beings

Answer 7

Servant Leadership

Question 8

Involving other in the decision making, based on
ethical and caring behavior, enhances growth of workers

Answer 8

Servant Leadership

Question 9

Promotes a style of guidance that emphasizes motivating employees, creating a vision and encouraging them to fulfill it.

Answer 9

Transformational Leadership Style

Question 10

● Challenge the standard state of affairs
● Encourage creativity
● Explore new ways of doing things

Answer 10

Intellectual Stimulation

Question 11

● Provide support and encouragement to individual employees
● Keep communication fluid

Answer 11

Individualized Stimulation

Question 12

● Articulate a clear transformational vision
● Help generate and sustain passion and motivation to fulfill the envisioned change

Answer 12

Inspirational Motivation

Question 13

● Leader is a role model
● Emulated because they are trusted and respected

Answer 13

Idealized Influence

Question 14

Individuals are not self-motivated and need structure instruction and supervision to accomplish their jobs

Answer 14

Transactional Leadership Theory

Question 15

States that workers will perform as they are asked to in exchange for something they want such as pay

Answer 15

Transactional Leadership Theory

Question 16

Lives strictly by their rules

Answer 16

Transactional Leadership Theory

Question 17

Reward for performance

Answer 17

Contingent Award

Question 18

Responds to deviations in standards as soon as possible

Answer 18

Management by exception (ACTIVE)

Question 19

Responds to deviations in standards only when necessary

Answer 19

Management by exception (PASSIVE)

Question 20

An art of motivating a group of people to act toward achieving a common goal

Answer 20

Leadership

Question 21

Relationship based on the authority that exists between managers and subordinates in order to produce and sell goods and services;

An executive function for carrying out agreed policy

Answer 21

Management

Question 22

Four distinct components of transformational leadership

Answer 22

● Intellectual Stimulation
● Individualized Consideration ● Inspirational Motivation
● Idealized Influence

Question 23

Assumes that there are superiors and subordinates;
Seeks to have subordinates deliver specific results that are articulated and measurable

Answer 23

Transactional Leadership Theory

Question 24

Able to mobilize, inspire and boast morale of employees;
● Lead by example
● Incorporate empathy, support and inspiration
● Focuses on faulty systems

Answer 24

Transformational Leadership Theory

Question 25

Traits of a servant leader

Answer 25

● Listener
● Has empathy
● Aids healing
● Mindful and aware
● Persuasive
● Able to foresee (challenges)
● Steward