1. Emergent small group leaders were reported by Baker to be
2. The idea of Weick’s metaphor “leader as medium” is that the foremost function of group leadership is to
3. The “leader-member exchange” model of leadership is concerned with
4. “Leadership” is classified as
5. In a mature small group, leadership is
6. The first approach people took to develop a theory of leadership was the ______________ model.
7. Leadership can be exerted by
8. The right to call committee meetings, usually given a chair, is an example of the ______________ type of
power.
9. Ebony always seems to know the right thing to say at the right time. She might be described as a
10. Human communication that modifies the attitudes and behaviors of others in order to meet group goals and
needs is the definition of:
11. Legitimate power in leadership stems from:
12. What is referent power in leadership?
13. The more leaders are admired and respected, the more members ___________________ their behavior.
14. Which source of power comes from what others believe a member knows or can do?
15. The advantage in small groups with a designated leader is:
16. The process whereby one individual who starts out on an equal basis with other members but who emerges
to be perceived as the group’s leader is:
17. What are traits of self-monitoring in terms of leadership?
18. Another trait(s) associated with leadership emergence is verbal style, which refers to a communicative style
that is:
19. The examination of characteristics relating to leadership such as enthusiasm, verbal skills, creativity, critical
thinking ability, and self-confidence is referred to as
20. Which type of leader is most likely to say, “I don’t care: whatever you want to do is fine with me.”?
21. These assumptions are characteristic of contingency approaches to leadership:
22. Which is not considered to be an effective communicative competency for discussion leaders?
23. All of the following are behaviors of emergent leaders in virtual groups, except:
24. gives assignments to members to get needed work done
25. asks members to volunteer to do needed work
26. most likely to produce a “wheel” communication network
27. associated with theory “Y” management approach of McGregor
28. associated with team building approach
29. makes no recommendations for structuring problem solving
30. based on attraction or identification with another person. The “leader of the gang” in school
31. a police officer or an office supervisor
32. an individual interviewed on CNN because of what she knows about the topic
33. “Leadership” and “persuasion” are similar and overlapping concepts.
34. Secondary small groups with no member designated as “leader” are usually more productive and satisfying
than similar groups in which someone has been appointed or elected as leader.
35. Appointing a designated leader does not mean that leadership should not be distributed among group
members on the basis of their respective competencies.
36. “Leadership” is considered by most group theorists to be a personality trait.
37. Democratic leadership can be made appropriate to any kind of situation facing a secondary group.
38. Occasionally a group member emerges as leader even though the group has a designated leader (e.g., an
appointed chair).
39. The idea of “leader as medium” suggests that needed leadership functions can be supplied by any member of
a small group.
40. Fiedler’s contingency model of leadership assumes that most people who function as designated leaders are
relatively adaptable to a variety of types of tasks, members, and other contingencies of group context.
41. The authority of a committee chair to call meetings is an example of coercive power.
42. Charisma is part of the type of influence that is called “referent power.”
43. Leadership can be exerted by EVERY member of a small group.
44. A recent meta-analytic study revealed that leader style and productivity were correlated only if the type of
task facing the group was held constant.
45. Research evidence indicates that skills in verbalizing ideas for a group may be important for being selected
or emerging as a group’s leader.
46. One cannot function as a small group leader unless other members are willing to follow.
47. Leaders are more adequately described as “task specialists” (competent at doing the work of the group) than
as “procedural specialists.”
48. No statistical connection was found between democratic leadership and satisfaction of members.
49. Studies indicate that men and women may exert leadership in different ways.
50. More women in designated leader positions were found to prefer the titles “coordinator” or “organizer” than
the title “leader” for referring to their positions.
51. Supervisors tend to give greater latitude to employees whose power needs are similar to theirs than to
employees with different power needs.
52. Members who listen well to each other seem to be necessary for distributed leadership to work well in a
small group.
53. Initially leaderless groups in which no one member emerges as leader outperform such groups in which a
member does emerge as leader.
54. Fisher’s model of leadership emergence suggests that any member in a group has the potential to emerge as
a leader in that group.
55. According to Fisher’s model, ______________ are group members who support certain contenders in their
efforts to emerge as leaders.
56. Power that results from one person liking or wanting to be like another person is called ______________
power.
57. “Expert” power comes from having and sharing skills and ______________ needed to achieve a group’s
goals.
58. The type of influence most likely to evoke resentment, sabotage, and even rebellion is ______________.
59. Ability or capacity to influence the behavior of other members is called ______________ (answer is NOT
“leadership”).
60. Geier found that emergence of a leader in initially leaderless groups is a three-stage process. During the
short FIRST stage, members who tended to speak ______________ (how often?) were rejected as future
leaders.
61. In addition to how often members spoke up, during the FIRST state of leader emergence in leaderless
groups, members who were ______________ and ______________ were also rejected as potential leaders.
62. In the Minnesota study reported by Geier, during the second phase of leader emergence members who tried
to influence in a(n) ______________ manner were eliminated from contention.
63. Three major styles of leadership studied early in the development of group dynamics research were called
autocratic, democratic, and ______________.
64. The type or style of designated leader who takes no initiative to influence behaviors of other members is
______________.
65. Management theory which states that people don’t like to work so need strong compelling leaders, is
associated with the ______________ style of leading.
66. The functions approach to understanding leadership in small groups is a subtype of the ______________
approach.
67. Explain the position Galanes, Adams, and Brilhart take on the topic of “distributed leadership.”
68. Describe the behaviors and types of actions characteristic of high self-monitoring persons.
69. Explain the general idea of a contingency theory of leadership as guidance to a person who has been
designated leader of several different small groups.
70. List and briefly explain (perhaps using examples) each of the five major categories of power to influence
other persons’ behaviors explained by Raven and French.
71. List and briefly explain as many as you can of the nine communicative competencies that are components of
the Barge-Hirokawa model of effective small group leadership.
Effective small group leaders
72. List and briefly explain the four competencies of leaders within virtual groups
Effective virtual group leaders
