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Assignment 1
The following Assignments should be completed and submitted to the course faculty
via the learning platform for evaluation and grading. Submit your responses to these
questions in one WORD document. List the question first, and then your response.
Be sure to properly site your sources, both in-text and with a reference list at the conclusion. If
you use an online source to support your answers, you must provide a properly formatted link to
the source. You should use APA citation format and make sure your sources are credible.
In most cases, your responses should be no more than 500 words.
1.
Kirkpatrick and Locke (1991) in an earlier reading provided us with insight into the role of
personal traits and their contribution to the emergence of a leader. Discuss how people
possessing the “right stuff” tend to surface as leaders. In similar fashion, what clues to the
emergence of leaders are provided by the writings of Murphy (1941) and Smircich and
Morgan (1982)?
2.
Hollander introduces us to the concept idiosyncrasy credits. What does the concept mean?
Explain how a member of a group might accumulate idiosyncracy credits? .
3.
What role do these credits play in the emergence of a leader?
4.
Leadership, according to Murphy (1941), and Smircich and Morgan (1982), has been
portrayed as an interpersonal process that involves the exercise of influence. Leaders, for
example, frame reality, provide direction, initiate structure, facilitate, induce compliance,
provide support, remove barriers, and control the behavior of others. What are power and
influence?
5.
How do leaders influence others? What are their sources of power?
6.
What is legitimate power?
7.
Why might it be important for us to be concerned about the different forms of power
employed by leaders?
8.
What was the primary objective of Podsakoff and Todor’s research?
9.
The expectations regarding the relationship between leader reward and punishment
behaviors and group cohesiveness, drive, and productivity are based on what two basic
assumptions?
10.
Why is understanding the relationship between leaders and groups important?
Lesson 4
Assignment 2
Assignments
The following Assignments should be completed and submitted to the course faculty
via the learning platform for evaluation and grading. Submit your responses to these
questions in one WORD document. List the question first, and then your response.
Be sure to properly site your sources, both in-text and with a reference list at the conclusion. If
you use an online source to support your answers, you must provide a properly formatted link to
the source. You should use APA citation format and make sure your sources are credible.
In most cases, your responses should be no more than 500 words.
1.
Researchers at both the University of Michigan and The Ohio State University launched a
major research effort directed at the identification of the behaviors associated with effective
leadership. Compare and contrast the findings from the Michigan and Ohio State studies.
2.
Bowers and Seashore (1966) suggested that group effectiveness was, in part, dependent
upon the presence of a set of behaviors that we commonly associate with leadership. They
went on to note, however, that it was not necessary that the leader per se directed these
behaviors to the group. Discuss what Bowers and Seashore meant by this, and comment
upon why a leader is important, assuming that they are not supplying the group with these
key behaviors.
3.
Stogdill (1948) suggested that leadership consists of movement and getting work
accomplished. He noted that the leader-follower relationship can be seen as a working
relationship, one in which the leader orchestrates group activity. Under the influence of
Stogdill, researchers at The Ohio State University worked at identification of those leader
behaviors associated with group effectiveness. What were the major behaviors that grew
out of their research efforts?
4.
Discuss the interaction between leader self-sacrifice and self-confidence as researched by
Cremer and van Knippenberg. How does this relate to leadership effectiveness? How is this
effect mediated by collective identification?
5.
What is the meaning associated with the following two statements, and what do they share
in common? (A) According to Murphy (1941), leadership can be seen as a function of what
it is that an individual has to offer, and the nature of the demands placed upon followers by
the situation in which they are embedded? (B) Stogdill (1948), as a part of his review of the
leadership literature, suggested that leadership is a working relationship—one in which
different contexts create a unique set of group needs, and a group’s emerging leader is that
individual who is capable of making meaningful contributions to the group.
6.
According to Stogdill (1948), “the qualities, characteristics, skills required in a leader are
determined to a large extent by the demands of the situation in which he [she] is to
function as a leader.” What type of relationship is being portrayed here between the three
variables the leader, the group’s outcome, and the situation? Discuss the nature of this
interactive relationship between the leader and the situation.
7.
What are the four key leader behaviors identified in the path-goal theory of leadership? How
do they relate to the University of Michigan and The Ohio State University leadership
studies? Discuss the conditions under which each leader behavior might be effective and
reasons for this relationship.
8.
House and Mitchell’s (1974) discussion of path-goal theory suggests that leader
effectiveness will be a function of the degree to which they can successfully shift back-andforth among different leader behaviors (e.g., supportive, directive, participative, and
achievement-oriented). Fiedler (1974), on the other hand, suggests that it is difficult for
leaders to make these shifts because of the powerful role played by their task or
relationship-oriented need hierarchy. Thus, he calls for task re-engineering. Discuss these
two competing perspectives. Argue how and why each perspective might be true.
Lesson 5
assignment 3
The following Assignments should be completed and submitted to the course faculty
via the learning platform for evaluation and grading. Submit your responses to these
questions in one WORD document. List the question first, and then your response.
Be sure to properly site your sources, both in-text and with a reference list at the conclusion. If
you use an online source to support your answers, you must provide a properly formatted link to
the source. You should use APA citation format and make sure your sources are credible.
In most cases, your responses should be no more than 500 words.
1.
What is culture? Why should culture play a role in aiding our understanding of leadership?
2.
Why should we focus on followers in our study of leaders and the leadership process? How
and where might followers fit into our model of leader effectiveness?
3.
Comment upon Charles Greene’s (1975) suggestion that follower performance may shape
the behavior (e.g., consideration and initiating structure) that the leader engages in.
4.
Drawing upon Greene’s work, explain what Murphy (1941) meant when he suggested that
leadership is an interactive and dynamic process.
5.
Sanford (1952) in his discussion of the follower in the leadership process suggested that we
think about the follower’s “readiness for leadership.” Explain what Sanford meant by this
concept.
6.
What are the major lessons about the follower that derive from the Leader Member
Exchange (LMX) model.
7.
Comment upon Hollander’s (1992) suggestion that the leader-follower relationship is
strongly affected by the “perceptions, misperceptions, and self-oriented biases” brought to
the relationship by the follower.
8.
Dirks explores follower trust in the leader-follower relationship. He observes that follower
trust in the leader appears to influence the level of team performance. Explain why follower
trust is important, and how it influences team (group) performance.
Lesson 6
assignment 4
The following Assignments should be completed and submitted to the course faculty
via the learning platform for evaluation and grading. Submit your responses to these
questions in one WORD document. List the question first, and then your response.
Be sure to properly site your sources, both in-text and with a reference list at the conclusion. If
you use an online source to support your answers, you must provide a properly formatted link to
the source. You should use APA citation format and make sure your sources are credible.
In most cases, your responses should be no more than 500 words.
1.
What are the three theoretical models that Miller and Monge (1988) discuss as a part of
their articulation of the efficacy of participatory leadership practices? Employing each of
these models, discuss how participative leadership impacts follower attitudes and behaviors.
2.
What are the two main types of leadership discussed by Yun, Faraj, and Sims Jr.? Discuss
how each of these effects a high-velocity environment team such as trauma resuscitation
teams.
3.
What does the concept “substitutes for leadership” mean?
4.
Identify several factors that may serve as leadership substitutes and comment on how their
substitution effect may occur.
5.
What is the leader’s role when a substitute such as a routine job and/or technology is
present and operating?
6.
Explain the role, as seen by Kerr and Jermier (1978), of follower’s professional orientation in
the leadership process.
7.
Distinguish between direct and indirect effects of leader behavior.
8.
Explain role ambiguity in terms of supportive leader behavior.
Lesson 7
assignment 5
The following Assignments should be completed and submitted to the course faculty
via the learning platform for evaluation and grading. Submit your responses to these
questions in one WORD document. List the question first, and then your response.
Be sure to properly site your sources, both in-text and with a reference list at the conclusion. If
you use an online source to support your answers, you must provide a properly formatted link to
the source. You should use APA citation format and make sure your sources are credible.
In most cases, your responses should be no more than 500 words.
1.
What is charismatic leadership? Discuss some of the characteristics of the charismatic leader
and components of the charismatic leadership process.
2.
How does charismatic leadership emerge and what is meant when it is noted that charisma
is relational in nature?
3.
Describe what occurs in a relationship between a follower and a leader who share a
charismatic relationship.
4.
What are the consequences of charismatic relationships? Explain and give examples of each.
5.
What is transformational leadership? What are the different dimensions of transformational
leadership?
6.
What are the transformational leader behaviors? Define and explain three of them.
7.
Compare and contrast transactional and transformational leadership.
8.
What are the individual and organizational effects that are seen as being associated with the
presence of the transformational leader?
Lesson 8
assignment 6
The following Assignments should be completed and submitted to the course faculty
via the learning platform for evaluation and grading. Submit your responses to these
questions in one WORD document. List the question first, and then your response.
Be sure to properly site your sources, both in-text and with a reference list at the conclusion. If
you use an online source to support your answers, you must provide a properly formatted link to
the source. You should use APA citation format and make sure your sources are credible.
In most cases, your responses should be no more than 500 words.
1. Identify, compare and contrast the two faces of leadership discussed by Clements and
Washbush.
2. By drawing upon earlier readings as they pertain to leader-member exchange and leader effects,
what do you see as the consequences stemming from the two faces of leadership?
3. According to Conger (1990), what is the dark side of leadership and what are the forces that give
rise to this side of leadership?
4. Smircich and Morgan (1982), in an earlier reading, identified “learned helplessness” as a possible
negative outgrowth of leadership. What is learned helplessness and how might leadership
contribute to this state?
5. What is Machiavellianism? What are the dangers associated with leaders who have a strong
Machiavellian orientation?
6. Discuss the three forms of dysfunctional leadership described by Kets de Vies and Miller, and how
they apply to organizations.