1. Cognitive resource theory views nondirective leader behavior as most helpful for performance when the leader is competent, relaxed, and supported.
a. True
b. False
2. Consideration is sometimes called __________ leadership and initiating structure is sometimes called __________ leadership.
a. socioemotional; task
b. task; socioemotional
c. socioemotional; 9/9
d. production-centered; task-oriented
e. human relations oriented; employee-centered
3. In his contingency theory of leadership, Fiedler measures high, moderate, and low situational control with which of the following three variables?
a. human relations orientation, task identity, and personal power
b. leader-member relations, task structure, and position power
c. position power, human relations orientation, and environmental complexity
d. human relations orientation, task variety, and environmental complexity
e. personal power, task variety, and leader-member relations
4. Use of __________ theory requires the leader to develop the capability to diagnose the demands of situations in terms of follower readiness and then to choose and implement the appropriate leadership response.
a. Attribution
b. Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership
c. House's path-goal
d. Graen's Leader-Member Exchange
e. Fiedler's contingency
5. In Fiedler's leadership contingency theory, a leader's style is essentially a(n) ________.
a. power
b. strength
c. trait measure
d. personality
e. ego
6. Conger and Kanungo have argued that if leaders rely on vision articulation, environmental sensitivity, and unconventional behavior, rather than on maintaining the status quo, followers will tend to attribute __________ leadership to them.
a. traditional
b. charismatic
c. transactional
d. transformational
e. managerial
7. According to the leadership grid, a 9/1 leader has a(n) _________________ style.
a. country club management
b. impoverished
c. task management
d. team management
e. middle of the road
8. House's path-goal theory of leadership assumes that a leader's key function is to _________ in the work setting.
a. maintain his or her work behaviors
b. keep changing his or her behaviors
c. reinforce his or her typical behaviors
d. adjust his or her behaviors to complement situational contingencies
e. teach employees his or her normal behaviors
9. A key way of differentiating between management and leadership is to argue that the role of management is to promote adaptive or useful change while the role of leadership is to promote stability or to enable the organization to run smoothly.
a. True
b. False
10. When using the leadership grid, results are plotted on a nine-position grid that places concern for __________ on the vertical axis and concern for __________ on the horizontal axis.
a. structure; performance
b. people; production
c. task orientation; human relations
d. initiating structure; consideration
e. financial performance; people