Leadership Theories & Behaviors: Vision Development, Leadership Styles & Personality Traits

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What is a mental image of a possible and desirable future state of the organization called?
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What type of leadership behavior provides guidance, support, and corrective feedback for day-to-day activities?
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What type of leadership behavior gives purpose and meaning to organizations, envisioning and creating a positive future?
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What is the ability to influence others known as?
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Which leadership perspective attempts to determine the personal characteristics that great leaders share?
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Which leadership perspective attempts to identify what good leaders do—that is, what behaviors they exhibit?
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What is a form of leadership in which the leader makes decisions on his or her own and then announces those decisions to the group?
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What is a form of leadership in which the leader solicits input from subordinates?
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Which perspective proposes that universally important traits and behaviors do not exist and that effective leadership behavior varies from situation to situation?
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What do you call a person who is dominant, self-confident, convinced of the moral righteousness of his or her beliefs, and able to arouse a sense of excitement and adventure in followers?
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Who are leaders that motivate people to transcend their personal interests for the good of the group?
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Who are leaders that manage through transactions, using their legitimate, reward, and coercive powers to give commands and exchange rewards for services rendered?
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What are the different types of teams within an organization?
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What type of teams make or do things like manufacture, assemble, sell, or provide service?
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What type of teams work on long-term projects but disband once the work is completed?
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What type of teams operate separately from the regular work structure and are temporary?
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What type of teams coordinate and provide direction to the subunits under their jurisdiction and integrate work among subunits?
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What type of teams differ from other work teams by being multicultural and often geographically dispersed, working on highly complex projects?
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What type of teams are physically dispersed and communicate electronically more than face-to-face?
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What is the strategy of teamwork on the fly, creating many temporary, changing teams called?
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What are groups that control decisions about and execution of a complete range of tasks called?
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What type of teams have responsibilities of autonomous work groups, plus control over hiring, firing, and deciding what tasks members perform?
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What is a collection of people who work in the same area or have been drawn together to undertake a task but do not necessarily come together as a unit and achieve significant performance improvements?
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What is formed of people with complementary skills who trust one another and are committed to a common purpose?
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What are the stages of team development?
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During which stage of team development do group members attempt to lay the ground rules for what types of behavior are acceptable?
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During which stage of team development do hostilities and conflict arise, and people jockey for positions of power and status?
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During which stage of team development do group members agree on their shared goals, and norms and closer relationships develop?
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During which stage of team development does the group channel its energies into performing its tasks?
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What is the term for working less and being less productive when in a group?
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What is the term for working harder when in a group than when working alone?
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What are shared beliefs about how people should think and behave called?
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What is the process of withholding, ignoring, or distorting information known as?
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What is the dialogue with a goal of helping another be more effective and achieve his or her full potential on the job called?
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What is the practice of sharing with employees at all levels of the organization vital information previously meant for management's eyes only?
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What is any process that directs the activities of individuals toward the achievement of organizational goals called?
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What is the use of rules, regulations, and authority to guide performance known as?
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What is based on the use of pricing mechanisms and economic information to regulate activities within an organization?
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What is based on the norms, values, shared goals, and trust among group members?
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What is the managerial principle stating that control is enhanced by concentrating on the exceptions to or significant deviations from the expected result or standard?
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What is a frank and open-minded discussion of four basic questions aimed at continuous improvement called?
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What is an evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of various systems within an organization called?
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What is a periodic assessment of a company's own planning, organizing, leading, and controlling processes called?
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What focuses on financial performance, environmental impact, and impact on people in the company and the communities where it operates?
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What is a liquidity ratio that indicates the extent to which short-term assets can decline and still be adequate to pay short-term liabilities?
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What is a leverage ratio that indicates the company's ability to meet its long-term financial obligations?
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What is the term for focusing on short-term earnings and profits at the expense of longer-term strategic obligations?
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What is the process by which a product, service, or business model takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then moves 'up market,' eventually displacing established competitors?
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What is the process of clarifying the key technologies on which an organization depends and identifies which technologies are most important?
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What is the process of comparing the organization's current practices and technologies with those of other companies?
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What places greater emphasis on identifying and monitoring the sources of new technologies for an industry?
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Who is a person that develops a new technology or has the key skills to install and operate the technology?
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Who is a person that promotes a new technology throughout the organization in an effort to obtain acceptance of and support for it?
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Who is an executive that supports a new technology and protects the product champion?
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What is a focused organizational effort to create a new product or process via technological advances called?
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What is an approach to job design that attempts to redesign tasks to optimize operation of a new technology while preserving employees' interpersonal relationships and other human aspects of the work?
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What is the term for breaking from the old ways of doing things?
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What is the term for instituting the change?
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What is the term for reinforcing and supporting the new ways?
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What is a response that occurs under pressure; problem-driven change?
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What is a response that is initiated before a performance gap has occurred?
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What are companies that take the current industry structure and its evolution as givens and choose where to compete called?
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What are companies that try to change the structure of their industries, creating a future competitive landscape of their own design called?
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What is the motivation theory stating that people have conscious goals that energize them and direct their thoughts and behaviors toward a particular end?
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What are targets that are particularly demanding, sometimes even thought to be impossible?
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What does the acronym SMART stand for in goal setting?
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What is the law formulated by Edward Thorndike in 1911, stating that behavior followed by positive consequences will likely be repeated?
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What is a reward given to a person by the boss, the company, or some other person called?
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What is a reward a worker derives directly from performing the job itself?
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What are characteristics of the workplace, such as company policies, working conditions, pay, and supervision, that can make people dissatisfied?
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What are factors that make a job more motivating, such as additional job responsibilities, opportunities for personal growth and recognition, and feelings of achievement?
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What is the process of sharing power with employees, enhancing their confidence in their ability to perform their jobs and their belief that they are contributors to the organization?
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What is it called when employees invest their physical, mental, and emotional energy into performing their jobs, including working hard and producing, taking initiative, and contributing additional citizenship behaviors?
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