KEY Arizona Agriscience Curriculum Standard 8.2: Investigate and evaluate leadership and management styles. Fill in the Blank Directions: Using the words in the word bank, complete the sentences. Style Influence Trait Born Transformational Word Bank Authoritarian Learned Influence Laissez Faire Leadership philosophy Democratic Anyone Situation 1. Leadership is influence. 2. Leadership is an ability anyone may choose to build. 3. Democratic leaders believe that threats and punishment are not the only means of getting others to do work. 4. The power a person has to affect others is called influence. 5. The trait approach to leadership focuses on identifying the innate characteristics someone is born with. 6. A leadership philosophy is the approach a person takes when influencing others. 7. The style approach to leadership focuses on what leaders do and how they act. 8. Laissez Faire leaders believe the group can make its own decisions without the leader. 9. Leaders are not born. Leadership is a learned trait. 10. Leaders can behave certain ways based on the demands of the situation. 11. Transformational leadership refers to the process of a leader engaging with others to create a connection that raises the level of motivation in both the leader and follower. 12. Authoritarian leaders believe that most people do not like work and will avoid it. Matching Directions: Match the leadership style with its description A. Power B. Beauty C. Social D. Knowledge E. Resource C 1. Example: Mother Teresa E 2. Example: Bill Gates B 3. Seek beauty, symmetry, and harmony. D 4. Value truth and knowledge above all else. A 5. Pursue power, influence, and personal prestige.