Successful leaders have a positive selfevaluation, including high selfesteem, self efficacy, and internal locus of control. This refers to the leaders' .
Telling, selling, participating, and delegating represent the four leadership styles identified in
Which of the following refers to "walking the talk"?
Fiedler's contingency model of leadership has made an important and lasting contribution to the study of leadership because it:
Which of the following leadership styles should be used by leaders when team cohesiveness is low?
Leadership prototypes refer to
According to the behavioral perspective of leadership, includes defining and structuring work roles, clarifying employees' work duties and procedures, and pushing employees to reach their performance capacity.
Transformational leaders
Sanco Systems uses performancebased reward systems across various departments to keep employees directed toward organizational goals. The management at Sanco Systems believes that these rewards might replace or reduce the need for taskoriented leadership. Which of the following leadership theories supports this action?
Which of the following statements about emotional intelligence and leadership is true
Which of the following clusters of leadership behaviors are identified by the behavioral perspective of leadership
Charisma refers to
Teambased organizational structures are usually found
A divisionalized structure is recommended mainly for
Creative Advertising Corp. wants its 100 employees to work together around specific clients yet maintain an equal emphasis on alignment with their skill specializations (advertising, graphics, copywriting and public relations). Which of the following organizational structures would work best for Creative Advertising Corp.
Communication flows in all directions with little concern for the formal hierarchy in a(n) , but this structure is costly to maintain due to the need for ongoing interpersonal skill training
(blank) is the degree to which organizations standardize behavior through rules, procedures, formal training, and related mechanisms
As organizations grow older, they tend to
When work activities are too complex to standardize through procedures or goals, companies often coordinate work effort
Dividing work into more specialized jobs
A wider span of control is possible if
Which of the following is typically most important among people working in hospital surgical operations
Many of the bestperforming production plants are able to widen their span of control to more than 70 employees per supervisor by
Formalization in organizational structures tends to
The structure tends to duplicate resources, such as production equipment and engineering or information technology expertise