Meta-analysis shows that women are substantially more effective than men in middle management positions

The majority of organizational research applies equally well to people of all colours, abilities, and sexual orientations

What does the term velvet ghetto refer to?

According to research, which of the following is not a described level of promoting leadership effectiveness?

According to the leadership labyrinth, which of the following is a characteristic of prejudice?

Research transformational leadership did not find that

What decade did researchers start paying attention to issues of gender and leadership

Which of the following is not a way to prepare for speaking at a meeting:

You are the executive director of the local animal humane society.  The staff you supervise have been working at the society for more than two years and you have given them consistently excellent performance appraisals at the last two annual reviews. You have noticed lately that they have brought new ideas to you for ways to improve customer service and animal care and that they are excited about helping new staff get accustomed to the workplace. Based on the Situational Leadership Approach, which leadership style should you exhibit?

Your boss focuses on listening to employees' personal problems and tries to create a positive work environment by being agreeable, eager to help, comforting, and uncontroversial. This is an example of

Our team leader outlined the objectives of our new project and identified our expected outcomes. Our leader was using which characteristic of team excellence?

Pat Smith is personnel director for a large bank. Her major goal is to find a person who can adapt his or her leadership to different types of people and situations. Pat is basing her selections on

Once a group has established a plan of action toward achieving its goals, the supervisor allows the group to carry out the plan with little to no involvement. This is an example of:

_______ presented an alternative transformational perspective that included modeling the way, challenging the process, and encouraging the heart.

Stogdill's later studies argued that personality and situational factors were both determinants of leadership.

The winner of seven Tour de France races and cancer survivor, Lance Armstrong, demonstrates which trait repeatedly through his accomplishments as a cyclist, as well as his personal battle with cancer?

All of the following environmental influences are external, except:

Within an organization, the trait approach can be applied to:

Jim is a manager of a Wendy's. He is very concerned with efficiency and making employees happy.

According to the Leadership Grid, opportunistic leaders rely primarily on the 5,5 style of leadership.

A meta-analysis comparing the effectiveness of female and male leaders found all of these except:

As the followers' perception of their own ability and competence increases:

In path-goal theory, the main components are ________, _________, and ________.

According to path-goal theory, directive communication is least effective when followers are inexperienced and when the task is unstructured.

Which type of leadership is concerned with emotions, values, ethics, standards, and long-term goals?