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Leadership and Trust 2
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Leadership and Trust 2
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1. Tannenbaum and Schmidt suggested that in the long run, managers should move toward an employee-centered leadership style.
2. Trait theories of leadership focus on how leaders interact with their followers.
3. A leader is someone who has managerial authority and can influence others.
4. The Ohio State studies suggested that leaders who were high in structure and low in consideration were most successful.
5. Emotional intelligence (EI) is the best predictor of who will emerge as a leader.
6. Path-goal theory states that a directive leadership style works best when tasks are ambiguous.
7. Experts state that 85 percent of all managers are not natural team leaders.
8. Fiedler's contingency model focused on having employees describe their ideal coworker.
9. The Michigan studies suggested that the most successful leaders were production oriented.
10. Research has shown a distinct set of traits that distinguishes leaders from nonleaders.
11. Robert House's path-goal theory maintains that an effective leader clears the path for a follower to the follower's goal.
12. Vroom and Yetton's leader participation model suggests that leadership research should focus on the situation rather than the leader.
13. One specific role of team leadership is that team leaders are troubleshooters.
14. A leader with an autocratic style often delegates authority to subordinates.
15. Team leadership is becoming less important in today's world because teams don't need leaders.
16. A major goal of behavioral leadership studies is to find ways to train people to be leaders.
17. Leadership identifies a process while leader identifies a person.
18. Traits such as honesty and integrity are not very useful for identifying who is suited and who is not suited to be a leader.
19. Path-goal theory states that a participative leadership style works best when tasks are highly structured.
20. Transformational leadership and charismatic leadership are identical.
21. One of the keys to being a good team leader is to know when to leave a team alone.
22. A transactional leadership style is not related to a transformational style.
23. Fiedler concluded that relationship-oriented leaders seemed to perform better in highly unfavorable situations.
24. A sizeable majority of American employees trust the leaders of the companies they work for.
25. Ideally, all managers should not be leaders.