Week 9 (leadership)

Question 1

a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal

Answer 1

leadership

Question 2

attempts to identify personality characteristics or interpersonal attributes that differentiate leaders from followers

Answer 2

trait approach

Question 3

a statistical procedure that effectively computes an average relationship between two variables

Answer 3

meta analysis

Question 4

having a grandiose sense of self importance; requiring or even demanding excessive admiration; having a sense of entitlement; lacking empathy; and tending to be exploitative, manipulative, and arrogant

Answer 4

narcissism

Question 5

a belief that the ends justify the means, maintenance of emotional distance, and use of manipulation

Answer 5

machiavellianism

Question 6

a lack of guilt, remorse or concern for others when their own actions do others harm

Answer 6

psychopathy

Question 7

proposed that people have beliefs about how leaders should behave and what they should do for their followers

Answer 7

implicit leadership theory

Question 8

a mental representation of the traits and behaviors people believe leaders possess

Answer 8

leadership prototype

Question 9

the belief in ones ability to influence dissimilar others in a global context

Answer 9

global mind set

Question 10

attempts to identify the unique behaviors displayed by effective leaders

Answer 10

behavioral styles approach

Question 11

leader behavior that organizes and defines what group members should be doing to maximize output

Answer 11

initiating structure

Question 12

focuses on clarifying employees role and task requirements and providing followers with positive and negative rewards contingent on performance

Answer 12

transactional leadership

Question 13

leader behavior that creates mutual respect or trust and prioritizes group members needs and desires

Answer 13

consideration

Question 14

represents the leaders ability to create perceptions of psychological empowerment in others

Answer 14

empowering leadership

Question 15

occurs when employees feel a sense of meaning, competence, self determination, and impact at work. reflects employees belief that they have control over their work

Answer 15

psychological empowerment

Question 16

focuses on increased service to others rather than to oneself

Answer 16

servant leadership

Question 17

normatively appropriate behavior that focuses on being a moral role model

Answer 17

ethical leadership

Question 18

the sustained display of hostile verbal and nonverbal behavior by managers

Answer 18

abusive supervision

Question 19

propose that the effectiveness of a particular style of leader behavior depends on the situation

Answer 19

contingency theories of leadership

Question 20

measures the extent to which an individual takes a task or relationship based approach toward leadership

Answer 20

least preferred coworker (LPC) scale

Question 21

the extent to which the leader has the support, loyalty, and trust of the work groups

Answer 21

leader member relations

Question 22

the amount of structure contained within tasks performed by the work group

Answer 22

task structure

Question 23

a source of influence associated with a particular job or position within an organization; also a leaders formal power to reward, punish, or otherwise obtain compliance from employees

Answer 23

position power