Ch 7 Assessment
The _____ asked leaders to indicate the extent to which they believed different consideration and initiating behaviors were important to leadership success. A. Leadership Opinion Questionnaire (LOQ) B. Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) C. Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) D. Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire (SBDQ)
A. Leadership Opinion Questionnaire (LOQ)
Researchers at the University of Michigan considered job-centered and employee-centered behaviors to be at opposite ends of a single continuum of leadership behavior. A. True B. False
A. True
Work facilitation behaviors are concerned with A. acquiring and allocating resources. B. showing concern for subordinates. C. minimizing conflicts among followers. D. motivating subordinates to work hard.
A. acquiring and allocating resources.
Goal emphasis and work facilitation are _____ dimensions of leadership behavior. A. job-centered B. interpersonal C. employee-centered D. intrapersonal
A. job-centered
In the _____, 10-15 superiors, peers, and direct reports are asked to share a target individual's strengths and areas of improvement as a leader in phone or face-to-face interviews. A. verbal 360-degree technique B. competency-based 360-degree questionnaires C. leadership virtues questionnaire D. leadership versatility approach
A. verbal 360-degree technique
In _____, superiors, peers, and direct reports provide ratings on the extent to which target individuals demonstrate too much, just the right amount, or too little strategic, operations, enabling, or forcing leadership behavior for a particular position. A. the leadership virtues questionnaire B. a leadership versatility approach C. the verbal 360-degree technique D. competency-based 360-degree questionnaires
B. a leadership versatility approach
According to the Leadership Grid, 9,9 leaders A. tend to have low concern for people. B. are the most effective leaders. C. tend to have low concern for production. D. are most likely to be authoritarian leaders.
B. are the most effective leaders.
The Leadership Grid profiles leader behavior on two dimensions, which are A. leader support and interaction facilitation. B. concern for people and concern for production. C. communication skills and cognitive skills. D. the introversion-extroversion dimension and the thinking-perceiving dimension.
B. concern for people and concern for production.
Behaviors that are concerned with motivating subordinates to accomplish the task at hand are called _____ behaviors. A. leader support B. goal emphasis C. work facilitation D. interaction facilitation
B. goal emphasis
Which of the following leadership questionnaires measured the extent to which leaders in industrial settings exhibited consideration and initiating structure behaviors? A. the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) B. the Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire (SBDQ) C. the Leadership Opinion Questionnaire (LOQ) D. the LBDQ (Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire)-XII
B. the Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire (SBDQ)
Which of the following statements about 360-degree feedback is most likely true? A. Few global firms use 360-degree feedback because of its mixed development results. B. Most firms use 360-degree feedback as a development tool rather than for performance appraisal purposes. C. 360-degree feedback should be built around a competency model. D. Research shows that 360-degree feedback ratings change significantly over time.
C. 360-degree feedback should be built around a competency model.
Which of the following concepts was most likely promoted by Boris Groysberg? A. The categorization of the skills and behaviors found in competency models into four categories. B. The profiling of leader behavior on two dimensions, concern for people and concern for production. C. The difference between portable and nonportable skills. D. The difference between consideration and initiating structure.
C. The difference between portable and nonportable skills.
Identify a true statement about leadership skills according to Hogan and Warrenfelz's four major categories of skills and behaviors found in virtually every organizational competency model. A. They are the primary focus of MBA programs and are among the easiest to learn of the four categories. B. They are difficult to develop when compared to the skills and behaviors associated with interpersonal skills. C. They are skills and behaviors concerned with building teams and getting results through others. D. They are skills and behaviors that involve direct interaction, such as communicating and building relationships with others.
C. They are skills and behaviors concerned with building teams and getting results through others.
Which of the following terms refers to how much a leader emphasizes meeting work goals and accomplishing tasks? A. interaction facilitation B. consideration C. initiating structure D. mobilization
C. initiating structure
Researchers at the University of Michigan concluded that there are four categories of leadership behaviors related to effective group performance. Identify a true statement about one of the four categories, interaction facilitation. A. It is similar to initiating structure, an Ohio State dimension. B. It includes those behaviors that are primarily concerned with motivating subordinates to accomplish the task at hand. C. It is a job-centered dimension of behavior. D. It includes those behaviors where leaders act to smooth over and minimize conflicts among followers.
D. It includes those behaviors where leaders act to smooth over and minimize conflicts among followers.
According to Hogan and Warrenfelz, competencies concerned with analyzing issues, making decisions, and strategic thinking fall into the _____ category. A. leadership skills B. interpersonal skills C. intrapersonal skills D. business skills
D. business skills
Which of the following terms refers to how friendly and supportive a leader is toward subordinates? A. goal emphasis B. initiating structure C. work facilitation D. consideration
D. consideration
