LMX Basics
This leadership theory focuses on one-on-one relationships between leaders and followers.
What is Leader Member Exchange Theory?
IN LMX, employees with strong relationships with the leader are often placed in this group.
What is the In Group?
Employees with high-quality LMX relationships often receive more of this from their leaders.
What is feedback?
Employees tend to work harder when they feel this.
What is Valued?
What is a dyadic relationship?
LMX Theory says that leadership is centered on these between leaders and followers.
What are interactions or relationships?
Because of ____ leaders may allow these employees to make decisions independently or represent the team.
What is Trust?
Strong communication between leaders and followers helps improve trust, performance and ____.
What is team effectiveness?
High-quality LMX relationships often increase this feeling toward one's job.
What is job satisfaction?
LMX is supported by research because it has been tested and supported by outcomes observed in these environments.
What are real-world organizational settings?
The author cited that explains LMX in chapter 7.
Who is Peter Northouse?
Leaders tend to trust employees who demonstrate these three qualities: reliability, competence, and ___.
What is initiative?
Employees with strong leader relationships often receive better career development.
What are Opportunities?
Employees with strong leader relationships often show higher levels of ____ towards the organization.
What is commitment?
Critics say LMX could make it easier for leaders to engage in this unfair treatment of followers.
What is discrimination?
LMX focuses on improving the quality of these individual connections between leaders and employees.
What are leader-follower relationships?
According to the leadership making model of LMX, leaders should try to build trust and respect with all followers instead of focusing on differences between these two groups.
What are the in-group and out-group?
These assignments help employees grow professionally and gain visibility.
What are challenging assignments?
LMX theory links strong leader relationships to higher employee ____.
What is Performance?
Some scholars argue that LMX is this type of theory because it does not fully explain how high-quality relationships are formed.
What is a slightly underdeveloped theory?
The key concept in LMX theory refers to the two-person relationship formed between a leader and a follower.
What is a Dyadic Relationship?
According to the LMX theory, higher trust between the leader and employee leads to more of this type of relationship quality.
What is High Quality LMX?
In LMX theory, leaders sometimes give this type of information to in-group members earlier so they can prepare or contribute ideas.
What is insider information?
According to Northouse, high-quality LMX relationships are associated with increased employee performance and this type of loyalty to the organization.
What is organizational commitment?
Researchers have not fully explained how these factors influence the development of leader-member relationships.
What are contextual factors?