Chapter 1: Leadership Theory and
Practice
Assigned Leadership - correct answer-Leadership that is based on occupying a position in
an organization is assigned leadership.
(Examples of assigned leadership: team leaders, plant managers, department heads,
directors, and administrators)
Coerce - correct answer-means to influence others to do something against their will and
may include manipulating penalties and rewards in their work environment.
Coercion - correct answer-- involves the use of force to effect change.
- often involves the use of threats, punishment, and negative reward schedules.
examples of Coercive leaders: Hitler, Taliban leaders, Jim Jones in Guyana, Kim Jong-il in
North Korea. All of them have used power and restraint to force followers to engage in
extreme behaviors.
Coercive Power - correct answer-Derived from having the capacity to penalize or punish
others. A coach who sits players on the bench for being late to practice.
Coercive people are not used as models of ideal leadership. Leaders who use coercion are
interested in their own goals and seldom are interested in the wants and needs of
subordinates.
Emergent Leadership - correct answer-- When others perceive an individual as the most
influential member of a group or an organization, regardless of the indivdual's title.
- Individual acquires emergent leadership through other people in the organization who
support and accept that individuals behavior.
- Type of leadership is not assigned by position; rather it emerges over a period through
communication.
Positive communication behaviors that account ofr successful leader emergence include:
being verbally involved, being informed, seeking others' opinions, initiating new ideas, and
being firm but not rigid (Fisher, 1974).
Expert Power - correct answer-Based on followers' perceptions of the leader's competence.
A tour guide who is knowledgeable about a foreign country.
French and Raven's (1959) work on bases of social power. - correct answer-- They
conceptualized power from the framework of dyadic relationship that includes both the
person influencing and the person being influenced.
- Identified 5 common and important bases of power: referent, expert, legitimate, reward,
coercive. Each of these bases of power increases a leader's capacity to influence the
attitudes, values, or behaviors of others.
Information Power - correct answer-Derived from possessing knowledge that others want or
need.
Practice
Assigned Leadership - correct answer-Leadership that is based on occupying a position in
an organization is assigned leadership.
(Examples of assigned leadership: team leaders, plant managers, department heads,
directors, and administrators)
Coerce - correct answer-means to influence others to do something against their will and
may include manipulating penalties and rewards in their work environment.
Coercion - correct answer-- involves the use of force to effect change.
- often involves the use of threats, punishment, and negative reward schedules.
examples of Coercive leaders: Hitler, Taliban leaders, Jim Jones in Guyana, Kim Jong-il in
North Korea. All of them have used power and restraint to force followers to engage in
extreme behaviors.
Coercive Power - correct answer-Derived from having the capacity to penalize or punish
others. A coach who sits players on the bench for being late to practice.
Coercive people are not used as models of ideal leadership. Leaders who use coercion are
interested in their own goals and seldom are interested in the wants and needs of
subordinates.
Emergent Leadership - correct answer-- When others perceive an individual as the most
influential member of a group or an organization, regardless of the indivdual's title.
- Individual acquires emergent leadership through other people in the organization who
support and accept that individuals behavior.
- Type of leadership is not assigned by position; rather it emerges over a period through
communication.
Positive communication behaviors that account ofr successful leader emergence include:
being verbally involved, being informed, seeking others' opinions, initiating new ideas, and
being firm but not rigid (Fisher, 1974).
Expert Power - correct answer-Based on followers' perceptions of the leader's competence.
A tour guide who is knowledgeable about a foreign country.
French and Raven's (1959) work on bases of social power. - correct answer-- They
conceptualized power from the framework of dyadic relationship that includes both the
person influencing and the person being influenced.
- Identified 5 common and important bases of power: referent, expert, legitimate, reward,
coercive. Each of these bases of power increases a leader's capacity to influence the
attitudes, values, or behaviors of others.
Information Power - correct answer-Derived from possessing knowledge that others want or
need.
