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When group members make statements such as "No one can stop us now" or "The other team has a bunch of jerks," it's likely that members are suffering from the groupthink characteristic of:

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Although ____ power may stop or reduce undesirable behaviors, it does not necessarily encourage desired behavior.

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Research on leadership behavior demonstrates that consideration is more important in all of the following circumstances except:

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The use of reward power would be present in a situation where followers do something because the leader has the right to request them to do it and they have an obligation to comply, as a consequence of the leader's position in the organization.  

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____ power comes from the leader's ability to provide something desired by team members in return for their desired behaviors.

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All of the following are propositions of Theory X except:

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When employees do something because the leader has the right to request them to do it and they have an obligation to comply, ________ power has influenced their behavior.

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A manager can shorten or mostly avoid the __________ stage of group development through the use of a team-building process.

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All of the following are criticisms of the trait model of leadership except:

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In the process of team development, failure can occur:

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The three primary components of transactional leadership that are usually viewed as helping followers achieve their performance goals are:

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Within the transactional leadership model, the component that refers to the leader's attempt to identify a path that links the achievement of goals to outcomes desired by the follower is called:

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All of the following are propositions of Theory Y except:

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The strength of the members' desire to remain in a team and their commitment to it is:

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In the __________ stage of development, team members often focus on defining or understanding goals and developing procedures for performing their tasks.

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With regard to the development of maximum leadership potential, transactional leadership is best viewed as:

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Low cohesiveness is usually associated with:

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In the appropriate order, the stages of development that teams often go through are:

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The operations manager at a large regional electric cooperative has implemented a procedure, which she hopes will increase member satisfaction with the services delivered by her staff. She began by issuing a memo to each member of her staff emphasizing the importance of increasing member satisfaction with their services, and describing penalties for employees whose performance is weak in this area. She has followed that up by providing a verbal reprimand as well as a written warning to any staff member who is observed behaving antagonistically toward members. Which of the following sources of a leader's power has the operations manager apparently used in this example?

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If team members do not deal with their feelings in the forming stage, all of the following outcomes are likely except:

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