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1. The nature of leadership (Connect, Perform) Match each description or situation with the leadership term that best describes it. Example A Leader A Manager The company put Nicholas in charge of the planning and organizing functions for the team. What is he? O O Terri is always motivating, energizing, and inspiring her team members. What is she? O C) Use your knowledge of leadership to select the term that best completes the sentence. As a process, leadership involves the use of V . Use your knowledge of leadership to select the word or phrase that best describes the situation. V is necessary to create and direct change and to help the organization get through tough times. Use your knowledge of leadership to select the term that best completes the sentence. Your subordinates are not working as carefully as they should and are making too many mistakes that are costing the company a lot of money. You have tried asking them to be more conscientious and have explained why this is so important, but their behavior has not changed. It is critical that the errors stop immediately. What should you do next? O Act like a leader and try to use noncoercive influence to change their behavior 0 Act like a manager and use your position power to offer rewards or threaten punishment if their behavior does not change 1. The nature of leadership (Connect, Perform) Match each description or situation with the leadership term that best describes it. Example A Leader A Manager The company put Nicholas in charge of the planning and organizing functions for the team. What is he? 0 O Terri is always motivating, energizing, and inspiring her team members. What is she? O O Use your knowledge of leadership to select the term that best completes the sentence. As a process, leadership involves the use of V . formal authority Use your knowledge of leadership to select t -st describes the situation. noncoercive influence V is necessary to create . help the organization get through tough times. coercive influence Use your knowledge of leadership to select the term that best completes the sentence. Your subordinates are not working as carefully as they should and are making too many mistakes that are costing the company a lot of money. You have tried asking them to be more conscientious and have explained why this is so important, but their behavior has not changed. It is critical that the errors stop immediately. What should you do next? 0 Act like a leader and try to use noncoercive influence to change their behavior 0 Act like a manager and use your position power to offer rewards or threaten punishment if their behavior does not change 1. The nature of leadership (Connect, Perform) Match each description or situation with the leadership term that best describes it. Example A Leader A Manager The company put Nicholas in charge of the planning and organizing functions for the team. What is he? 0 O Terri is always motivating, energizing, and inspiring her team members. What is she? O O Use your knowledge of leadership to select the term that best completes the sentence. As a process, leadership involves the use of V . Use your knowledge of leadership to select the word or phrase that best describes the situation. V is necessary to create and direct change and to help the organization get through tough times. Management dye of leadership to select the term that best completes the sentence. Supervision s are not working as carefully as they should and are making too many mistakes that are costing the company a lot of money. You Leadershi p 5 them to be more conscientious and have explained why this is so important, but their behavior has not changed. It is critical that the errors stop immediately. What should you do next? 0 Act like a leader and try to use noncoercive influence to change their behavior 0 Act like a manager and use your position power to offer rewards or threaten punishment if their behavior does not change 2. Early approaches to leadership (Connect, Perform) Choose the term that best fits the situation being described. Your boss pays close attention to the work of subordinates, explains work procedures, and is mainly interested in performance. According to the Michigan leadership studies, what type of leader behavior is this? 0 Trait-centered O Employeecentered O Jobcentered Read this brief case study and answer the question that follows. v CASE STUDY a' You are a new manager at Tree Titans, a landscape design and installation company. Each landscaping crew consists of four laborers and a supervisor. You want to ensure that the crew supervisors act consistently with each other and support the company's values and goals. You decide that a training and development program is necessary to ensure that the crew leaders engage in appropriate leadership behaviors. You decide that the Leadership Grid is the most appropriate approach for your company. Before starting the training program you assess your crew leaders to identify their current leadership style. Most of them are found to focus strongly on production but very little on the employees. According to the leadership grid, what leadership style is this? 0 Authority-compliance management 0 Impoverished management 0 Middleofthe road management Use your knowledge of leadership to answer the following question. Which of the following is NOT one of the leader behaviors identified by the Ohio State leadership studies? O Initiating structure 0 Employee-centered leadership 0 Consideration 3. Situational leadership theories and models (Connect, Perform) Use your knowledge of situational leadership theories and models of leadership including the LPC and path-goal theories to select the term that best completes each sentence or answers each question. If, after reflecting on the nature of leadership you decide that all leaders must treat their followers with respect, then you have identified a V leadership model. Fiedler believed that everyone's least preferred coworker is likely to be equally \"unpleasant," and that differences in our descriptions of them actually reflect differences in what? 0 Leaders' experience O Leaders' personality traits O Leaders' organizational level As a leader, you want to show concern for your subordinates' needs. According to the pathgoal theory, what type of leadership should you use? O Supportive leadership 0 Participative leadership 0 Achievementoriented leadership 0 Directive leadership 3. Situational leadership theories and models (Connect, Perform) Use your knowledge of situational leadership theories and models of leadership including the LPC and pathgoal theories to select the term that best completes each sentence or answers each question. If, after reflecting on the nature of leadership you decide that all leaders must treat their followers with respect, then you have identified a V leadership model. ' Situational d that everyone's least preferred coworker is likely to be equally \"unpleasant," and that differences in our descriptions of them actually behavioral ces in What? trait .ers' experience O Leaders' personality traits O Leaders' organizational level As a leader, you want to show concern for your subordinates' needs. According to the pathgoal theory, what type of leadership should you use? O Supportive leadership 0 Participative leadership 0 Achievementoriented leadership 0 Directive leadership Imagine that you are looking for a new managerial job. If you wanted to best match your personal leadership style, which you believe is part of your personality, with yourjob, what leadership theory should you apply? 0 Tannenbaum 8L Schmidt's leadership continuum O Pathgoal theory 0 Fiedler's LPC theory 4. Vroom's decision tree (Connect, Perform) Select the best response to the following question. Vroom developed two decision trees to help managers decide how much subordinate participation to allow. One decision tree is to be used when the decision must be made quickly. When should the second decision tree be used? Q When the subordinates are able to make a decision on their own 0 When the goal is to help subordinates improve their decision-making skills Q When the cost of making a bad decision is high Select the term that best describes the situation or answers the question. Use each term no more than once. Decide Delegate Consult individually Consult the group Facilitate You need to quickly make an important choice about the best packaging design for your company's new product. You decide to make the decision and then tell your team why it was the best choice. which decision style should you use? Because you want your staff to improve their decisionmaking skills and you feel that they are in the best position to decide where the best location is for the new vending machines you let them make the decision about where to put them. Which decision style should you use? You want to facilitate a group discussion about it and let your team make the decision about which of three different packaging machines to buy. Which decision style should you use? Select the term that best completes the sentence. If your staff has the experience and expertise needed to make a good decision, V is high. Select the term that best describes the situation or answers the question. Use each term no more than once. Decide Delegate Consult individually Consult the group Facilitate You need to quickly make an important choice about the best packaging design for your company's new product. You decide to make the decision and then tell your team why it was the best choice. which decision style should you use? Because you want your staff to improve their decisionmaking skills and you feel that they are in the best position to decide where the best location is for the new vending machines you let them make the decision about where to put them. Which decision style should you use? You want to facilitate a group discussion about it and let your team make the decision about which of three different packaging machines to tyle should you use? group support task significance Select the term that best completes the sentence. team competence If your staff has the experience and expertise needed to make a good decision, V is high. Management in the News On May 4, 2007, a devastating tornado hit Greensburg, Kansas. The entire town was destroyed: Houses and businesses were demolished, crops were ruined, and 12 people were killed. But Lonnie McCoIIum, the town's mayor, and Steve Hewitt, the city administrator, had a vision for bringing the town back. They proposed rebuilding Greensburg as a green city, using only the latest and most environmentally sustainable technologies. You can see a glimpse of the decisionmaking process in this passage: \"On May 6, two days after the storm struck, Kathleen Sebelius, then the Kansas governor (she was nominated as Health and Human Services Secretary at press time), arrived to survey the damage. Before her press conference, she ducked into a trailer for a quick huddle with Hewitt, If Steve Hewitt, City Administrator, were to say that the true heroes are the people who show up every day in the office, working to accomplish tasks, then this is an example of which style depicted in the Leadership Grid? 0 Country Club Management 0 AuthorityCompliance 0 Team Management 0 Middle-of-the-Road Management Use your knowledge of Tannenbaum and Schmidt's Leadership Continuum to classify the following statement or situation according to the appropriate denition. (Note: Not all of these descriptions portray situations encountered at the City of Greenburg. Certain statements may be fictional and provided strictly for the purposes of answering the question.) Manager presents Manager presents Manager permits Manager tentative problem, gets subordinates to \"sells\" decision subject suggestions, makes function within limits Example decision to change decision defined by superior Steve Hewitt, City Administrator, determines that current emergency procedures are inefficient and new procedures should be put in place. He asks city 0 O O O planners, emergency officials, and all relevant personnel for their insights and then Steve creates a new set of procedures. Assume you are Steve Hewitt, City Administrator, and you want to focus on exhibiting high quality leadership rather than simply focusing on functioning as a manager. Using Kotter's distinctions between managers and leaders, which behaviors are most important for exhibiting leadership rather than merely focusing on management? Check all that apply. C] Influence the creation of teams and coalitions that understand a vision and strategies for attaining the vision C] Monitor results and identify deviations C] Develop strategies for producing changes needed to achieve a vision 1:] Provide policies and procedures to help guide people You are Steve Hewitt, City Administrator, and you have gone through training to use Vroom's Time-Driven model of leadership style. Using expert software to assist you in making the correct decision about leadership style, you have determined that you need to decide. Which of the following behaviors is most in line with using a decide leadership style? 0 You make the decision alone and then announce or \"sell" it to your group. Q You allow your group to dene for itself the exact nature and parameters of the problem and then develop a solution on its own. Q You present the program to your group members individually, obtain their suggestions, and then make the decision. Q You present the problem to your group at a meeting, define the problem and its boundaries, and then facilitate discussion as your group members make the decision