TEST BANK 2026 VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT
●● Management vs. Leadership.
Answer: Management:
- Focused more on the current
- Promotes stability and efficiency
Leadership:
-Focused more on the future
-Promotes change and adaption
●● Management skills vs Leadership skills.
Answer: Management skills:
-Planning
-Organizing
-Analytical thinking
-Communicating/Informing
Leadership Skills
-Strategic thinking
,-Conceptual thinking
-Innovation/Creativity
-Inspiring
●● behavioral theories of leadership.
Answer: 1. The Ohio State leadership studies
-Some of the first leadership studies at OSU
- People and task behaviors found no "best style"
2. University of Michigan :
-Task/PPL behavior found similar results as OSU
3. Managerial Grid
-Concern for people and concern for production
- 2x2 Matrix with 5 leadership styles
*FOUND TEAM MANAGEMENT IS BEST STYLE*
●● Situational Leadership (Contingency Theories).
Answer: "Best style of leadership depends on the situation"
Most of the time were in the middle
,●● Path-Goal Theory Leadership behaviors.
Answer: Directive leadership
Supportive leadership
Achievement-oriented leadership
Participative leadership
Upward-influencing leadership
*Don't want to do all of them all of the time depends on situation*
*As a leader you can clear a path to the goal*
●● Transactional Leadership vs Transformational Leadership.
Answer: Transactional Leadership---- "good @ transactions"
-Clarifying role requirements, task requirements, accountabilities etc.
-Providing positive and negative rewards for performance
Transformational Leadership---"transform the organization"
-Provides a transformational change in engagement of organizational
members toward organizational goals.
-Complementary to Transactional leadership
Characteristics:
, 1. Having a vision
2. Communicating the vision to others in a compelling way
3. Mobilizing commitment/behaviors of others to the vision
●● Charismatic Leaders and leadership chatacteristics.
Answer: -Self confidence
-Vision
-Ability to articulate the vision and make it "real" to others
-Strong convictions about the vision
-Behavior that is out of the ordinary
-Strong abilities to manage change.
-Environment/Resource sensitivity
EG. MLK, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs
●● Contemporary views of leadership.
Answer: Leader-member exchange theory
Transformational-transactional leadership
Charismatic-visionary leadership
Team leadership