How can a formal leader best expand her power?Supplementing formal power with other forms of powerHaving the organization augment her power A formal leader cannot - formal leadership is the pinnacle of organizational power and no other power is neededSacrificing formal power in exchange for a more effective form of powerNext

A leadership observer said in an interview that most women leaders view power differently than men do and prefer a collaborative, relationship-oriented use of power. If this is the case, what does it suggest about women leaders’ ability to accomplish goals? What does it suggest about women’s ability to rise to higher organizational levels? Describe ways in which you might increase your personal power.

_______ power is more informal than other kinds of power and is associated with the personal characteristics of a leader.Multiple ChoiceRewardLegitimateCoerciveReferentTransformational

Effective leadership stylesMultiple Choicevary with individual, culture, and country.are easy to develop for experienced, top-level managers.frequently employ coercive power.are universal from country to country.are compromised if power is shared with followers.

The power a leader develops from the followers they are leading is

1. Why are both position power and personal power essential inmanagement?2. Use Fiedler’s terms to list the characteristics of situations that wouldbe extremely favorable and extremely unfavorable to a leader.3. Describe the situations in which House’s path-goal theory wouldexpect (a) a participative leadership style and (b) a directive leadershipstyle to work best.4. How do you sum up in two or three sentences the notion of servantleadership?5. When Birgit took over as leader of a new product development team,she was both excited and apprehensive. ‘I wonder’, she said to herselfon the first day of her new assignment, ‘if I can meet the challenges ofleadership’. Later that day, Birgit shares this concern with you duringa coffee break. How would you describe to Birgit the personalimplications of current thinking on transformational and moralleadership and how they might be applied to her handling of this teamsetting?Debate topic: Managers should allow workers to access social networkingsites during their lunch hours