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Which of the following is considered a "soft" tactic used to influence others? |
ingratiating tactics |
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Leadership is the ability to marshal human, informational, and other resources to get something done. |
false |
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Medical knowledge possessed by doctors results in their ______ power. |
expert |
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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. |
false |
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_______ is not a relationship-oriented behavior. |
political maneuvering |
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Which of the following is incorrect about the leader-member exchange (LMX) model of leadership? |
the LMX focuses only on the behaviors or traits of leaders |
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__________, which all managers have, is power that results from a manager’s authority to reward his or her subordinates. Rewards can range from praise to pay raises, from recognition to promotions. |
reward power |
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Authority is the extent to which a person is able to influence others so they respond to orders |
false |
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Which of the following is not a key quality displayed by humble leaders? |
low self-awareness |
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______ leaders focus on providing increased service to others—meeting the goals of both followers and the organization—rather than to themselves. |
servant |
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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. |
false |
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The best leaders display both transactional and transformational leadership styles. |
true |
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Which of the following is not one of the eight leadership styles proposed by the revised path-goal theory? |
servant leadership |
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______ leadership helps employees pursue organizational goals over self-interests. |
transformational |
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Which negative trait of some leaders is marked by a cynical view of human nature that condones opportunistic and unethical ways of manipulating people, putting results over principles? |
Machiavellianism |
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Narcissism is a key positive leadership trait. |
false |
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Fiedler’s contingency leadership model argues that leadership behaviors should be determined by position power only. |
false |
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In the ______ leadership model, a leader makes desirable rewards available in the workplace and clarifies how followers can obtain them. |
path-goal |
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______ focuses on clarifying employees’ roles and task requirements and providing rewards and punishments contingent on performance. |
transactional leadership |
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Which of the following statements is not a practical implication of the behavioral approaches to leadership? |
there is one best style of leadership |
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