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Match the following terms and definitions
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The process by which an individual exerts influence over other people and inspires, motivates, and directs their activities to help achieve group or organizational goals.

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An individual who is able to exert influence over other people to help achieve group or organizational goals.

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The ways a manager chooses to influence others and how they approach planning, organizing, and controlling.

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The authority that a manager has by virtue of his or her position in an organization’s hierarchy.

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The ability of a manager to give or withhold tangible and intangible rewards.

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The ability to persuade someone to do something that he or she ­otherwise would not.

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Power that is based in the ­special knowledge, skills, and expertise that a leader possesses.

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Power that comes from subordinates’ and coworkers’ respect, admiration, and loyalty.

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The expansion of ­employees’ knowledge, tasks, and decision-making responsibilities.

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­Behaviour indicating that a ­manager trusts, respects, and cares about subordinates.

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Behaviours that managers engage in to ensure that work gets done, subordinates perform their jobs acceptably, and the organization is efficient and effective.

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Models of leadership that take into account the variables in the situation or context in which leadership occurs.

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The extent to which followers like, trust, and are loyal to their leader; can be good or poor.

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The extent to which the work to be performed is clear-cut so that a leader’s subordinates know what needs to be accomplished and how to go about doing it; can be high or low.

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The amount of legitimate, reward, and coercive power that a leader has by virtue of his or her position in an organization; can be strong or weak.

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A contingency model of leadership that focuses on the followers’ readiness.

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A contingency model of leadership ­proposing that leaders can motivate subordinates by identifying their desired outcomes, rewarding them for high performance and the ­attainment of work goals with these desired outcomes, and clarifying for them the paths leading to the attainment of work goals.

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Characteristics of subordinates or characteristics of a situation or context that act in place of the influence of a leader and make leadership unnecessary.

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Leaders who guide their subordinates toward expected goals by rewarding them for high performance and reprimanding them for low performance, with no expectation of exceeding expected behaviour.

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Leadership that makes subordinates aware of the importance of their jobs and performance to the organization and aware of their own needs for personal growth, and that ­motivates subordinates to work for the good of the organization.

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Enthusiastic, self-confident leaders who are able to communicate clearly their vision of how good things could be.

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Behaviour a leader engages in to make followers aware of problems and view these problems in new ways, consistent with the leader’s vision.

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Behaviour a leader engages in to support and encourage followers and help them develop and grow in the job.

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The ability to ­understand and manage one’s moods and ­emotions and the moods and emotions of other people.

A) reward power
B) expert power
C) situational leadership theory (SLT)
D) personal ­leadership style
E) leader–member ­relations
F) transformational leadership
G) coercive power
H) empowerment
I) consideration or employee-centred behaviour
J) leader substitute
K) emotional intelligence
L) leadership
M) leader
N) transactional ­leadership
O) charismatic leaders
P) legitimate power
Q) path-goal theory
R) position power
S) developmental ­consideration
T) referent power
U) initiating structure or task-oriented behaviours
V) contingency models of leadership
W) task structure
X) intellectual ­stimulation







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