Texas Tech University MGT 3370 Chapter 14 Quiz 1)Carlos is a manager who has poor leader-member relations with his employees who perform unambiguous, easily understood tasks

Texas Tech University

MGT 3370

Chapter 14 Quiz

1)Carlos is a manager who has poor leader-member relations with his employees who perform unambiguous, easily understood tasks. He should use a task-motivated leadership style.

2. Authority is the extent to which a person is able to influence others so they respond to orders.
3.                  leadership helps employees pursue organizational goals over self-interests.
4.                  focuses on clarifying employees’ roles and task requirements and providing rewards and punishments contingent on performance.

5. According to John Kotter, management is about coping with complexity.
6. Which of the following statements about leadership and management is true?
7. E-Leadership is using information technology for one-to-one, one-to-many, and between group and collective interactions.
8. Narcissism is a view manifested in such expressions as “All people lie to get what they want” and “You have to cheat to get ahead.”
9. Personalized power is directed at helping others.
10. Initiating structure leadership is more concerned with task accomplishment than employee satisfaction or retention.
11. Narcissism is a key positive leadership trait.
12. Which of the following is incorrect about the leader–member exchange (LMX) model of leadership?
13. A possible explanation for the limited number of women holding executive leadership positions is that women typically do not aspire to be CEOs.
14. Which of the following statements is not a practical implication of the behavioral approaches to leadership?

15. Which of the following is considered a “soft tactic use to influence other?
16. Fiedler’s contingency leadership model argues that leadership behaviors should be determined by position power only.

17.                            , which all managers have, is power that results from managers’ authority to reward their subordinates. Rewards can range from praise to pay raises, from recognition to promotions.

18.                  leaders focus on providing increased service to others—meeting the goals of both followers and the organization—rather than to themselves.
19. Medical knowledge possessed by doctors results in their                                             power.

20. The primary purpose of relationship-oriented leadership behavior is to ensure that people, equipment, and other resources are used in an efficient way to accomplish the mission of a group or organization.

21. followers seek and admire leaders who create feelings of significance, community, and excitement.
22. In the                   leadership model, a leader makes desirable rewards available in the workplace and clarifies how followers can obtain them.