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Leadership training programs often focus on very specific issues, like being a more effective mentor.

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B) False

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Alice has a deep concern for the welfare of her subordinates and she promotes interactive discussions with them. Alice can be described as a manager who scores high on:

A) initiating structure.
B) autocratic leadership.
C) consideration.
D) managerial control.
E) discipline.

F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

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Which of the following factors is included in the time-driven model of leadership?

Which of the following refers to how well people actually do in a leadership role?

Traits are more predictive of leader emergence than they are of leader effectiveness.

Alexandria, Brittney, Nicole, and Dolce are four managers at Polar Coat Manufacturing. Each uses a different decision-making style and believes that her style is the best. Alexandria always presents the problem to her employees, gathers their opinions/suggestions, and then makes the decision herself. Brittney gives her employees the responsibility for making the decision within a set of specified boundary conditions. Nicole makes the decision without asking her employees for their opinions/suggestions. Dolce presents the problem to her employees and seeks consensus with an emphasis that her opinion should only count as important as every other employee's in her department. Which of the following is the decision making style that Nicole is displaying?

Neutralizers reduce the importance of the leader while providing a direct benefit to employee performance.

In the leader-member exchange theory, the low-quality exchange dyad forms the leader's:

The life cycle theory of leadership argues that the optimal combination of initiating structure and consideration depends on the _____ of the employees in the work unit.

Focusing on leaders' traits holds more practical relevance than focusing on leaders' actions.

Idealized influence involves behaving in ways that earn the admiration, trust, and respect of followers.

During which phase of the leader-member exchange theory does a manager describe role expectations to an employee, with the employee attempting to fulfill those expectations with his or her job behaviors?

With a(n) _____ decision-making style, employees have a say in the decision-making process, but the ultimate authority still rests with the leader.

Recent research has shown that the development of high LMX relationships is more effective in collectivistic cultures than in individualistic cultures.

In the _____ leader behavior, the leader supplements his or her directing with support and encouragement to protect the confidence levels of the employees.

Differentiate between initiating structure and consideration.

There has been extensive research into the time-driven model of leadership. The results include all of the following except:

According to the life cycle theory of leadership, a group of employees who are working together for the first time and are eager to begin, but who lack the experience and confidence needed to perform their roles, are at which level of readiness?

Describe the life cycle theory of leadership.

Describe the leader-member exchange theory. Explain the two types of dyads.