Chapter 7: Leadership

Question 1

Leadership

Answer 1

The process of influencing supporting others to work enthusiastically towards achieving objectives.

Question 2

Technical skill

Answer 2

A persons knowledge of and ability in any type of processing or technique

Question 3

Human skill

Answer 3

The ability to work effectively with people and to build teamwork

Question 4

Conceptional skill

Answer 4

Able to think in terms of models, frameworks, and brought relationships, such as long-range plans

Question 5

Autocratic leaders

Answer 5

These leaders centralize power and decision-making in them sells the structure of a complete work situation for their employees to expect to do what they’re told and I think for themselves.

Question 6

Consultative leaders

Answer 6

These leaders approach one or more employees and ask them for their input prior to making a decision. These leaders then may choose to use or ignore the information.

Question 7

Participant leaders

Answer 7

These leaders clearly decentralized authority decisions or not you are wrong because they use the inputs from followers and participation by them.

Question 8

Consideration

Answer 8

Considerate leaders are concerned about the human needs and their employees. They tried to build teamwork, provide psychological support, and help employees with their personal problems.

Question 9

Structure

Answer 9

Structural leaders are task oriented they believe that they get results people constantly busy, closely monitoring employee actions, ignoring their personal issues and emotions, and urging them to produce at ever higher levels

Question 10

Developmental level

Answer 10

The task specific combination of an employees competence and motivation to perform

Question 11

Blake and Mouton’s managerial grid

Answer 11

This grid ranks leadership style of a manager on a 1 to 9 scale on the categories of concern for people and concern for production.

Question 12

Fiedler’ Contingency Model

Answer 12

This model assumes the three factors to a leader’s effectiveness are; Leader-Member relations, Task structure, and leader position power.

Question 13

Leader-Member Relations

Answer 13

Leader-member relations are determined by the manner in which the leader is accepted by the group.

Question 14

Task structure

Answer 14

Task structure reflects the degree to which one specific way is required to do the job.

Question 15

Leader position power

Answer 15

Leader position power describes the organizational power that goes with the position the leader occupies.

Question 16

Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership Model

Answer 16

This model compares an employee’s ability (High or low) with their willingness (High or low) to describe four possible manager-employee interactions

Double High: Participating
High ability, Low willingness: Delegating
Low ability, High Willingness: Telling
Double Low: Selling

Question 17

Path goal leadership

Answer 17

This model states a leader’s job is to use structure, support, and rewards to create a work environment that helps employees reach the organizations goals.

Question 18

Task support

Answer 18

When a leader helps assemble resources, budgets, power, and other elements essential to their employees success

Question 19

Psychological support

Answer 19

Leaders must stimulate people to want to do their job and attend to their emotional needs.

Question 20

Locus of control

Answer 20

The assessment of whether in employees achievement is the product of his or her own effort, and internal locus, or the result of an outside effort, and external locus,