Leadership

Whereas managers focus on plans, results, and goals, what do leaders focus on?

• Productivity

• Profitability

• Inspiration

• Sales

What type of power is granted through the established hierarchy within the organization?

• Legitimate power

• Reward power

• Referent power

• Expert power

Management is defined as the processes and behaviors used to motivate, inspire, and influence the behaviors of others.

• True

• False

Select the correct statement on leadership & management.

• Leadership is necessary to create and direct change at an organization by influencing and motivating its members.

• Management is more concerned with everyday administrative activities in order to bring stability to and obtain reliable results from the organization.

• Management is necessary to create and direct change at an organization by influencing and motivating its members.

• Leadership is more concerned with everyday administrative activities in order to bring stability to and obtain reliable results from the organization.

In interviews with two leadership applicants, a manager tried to determine each person's knowledge of the industry, level of energy, and level of self-esteem. With which of the following concepts of leadership is the manager MOST concerned here?

• Charismatic leadership

• Behavioral leadership

• Situational leadership

• Trait-based leadership

• Transformational leadership

What is the difference between employee-focused leadership and task-focused leadership?

• Employee-focused leadership is when a leader focuses on the satisfaction, motivation, and well-being of his or her employees.

• Task-focused leadership is when a leader focuses on how tasks should be performed in order to meet certain goals and to achieve certain performance standards.

• Task-focused leadership is when a leader focuses on the satisfaction, motivation, and well-being of his or her employees.

• Employee-focused leadership is when a leader focuses on how tasks should be performed in order to meet certain goals and to achieve certain performance standards.

Which method of leadership encourages supervisors to establish a small number of trusted subordinates and give them special duties and privileges?

• Transformational

• Charismatic

• Leader-member exchange

• Decision tree

• Path-glory

The situational approach to leadership gives equal weight to the elements of the situation and the characteristics of the leader and followers in order to ascertain the outcomes of a leader's actions.

• True

• False

Select correct statement on the leadership prevail, task focused and employee focused

• Task-focused leader behavior - a leader focuses on how tasks should be performed in order to meet certain goals.

• The situational approach posits that the actions of a leader depend completely on the given circumstances of the organization to be led.

• Employee-focused leader behavior - a leader focuses on the satisfaction, motivation, and well-being of his or her employees.

Which of the following best describes the new, modern role of a leader?

• Overseer

• Individualist

• Collectivist

• Coach

• Autocratic