MGMT 102 QUIZ Q'S

When teams engage in routine decision making, their activities are focused on generating novel and useful ideas and solutions.

FALSE

Wonderlic Personnel Test is a personality assessment tool.

FALSE

_____ abilities are most important in jobs in which effectiveness depends on understanding and communicating ideas and information to others.

Verbal

The spatial ability called _____ is the ability to imagine how separate things will look if they were put together in a particular way.

Visualization

Personality traits are a function of both your:

environment & genes

In the context of the Big Five taxonomy, a submissive person is said to be an extrovert.

FALSE

Team processes are synonymous with "synergy."

FALSE

_____ focus on "getting along," not necessarily "getting ahead."

Agreeable people

Which of the following decision-making styles is characterized by the highest level of leader control?

Auto-cratic

Which of the following types of power tends to result in negative feelings toward the person exercising the power?

Coercive

The Chinese culture is a tight social framework in which people take care of the members of a broader in group and act loyal to it. In the context of Hofstede's dimensions, what is the personality dimension that you will use to describe the Chinese culture?

Collectivism

Which of the Big Five personality traits has the greatest effect on typical performance?

Conscientiousness

Extraverts are less likely to emerge as leaders in task-related groups when compared to introverts.

FALSE

Which of the following is a physical ability?

Flexibility & coordination

_____ suggest that leaders are born, not made.

Great Person

Which of the following is true regarding prediction of leadership effectiveness using traits?

High conscientiousness is a trait that has been found to be correlated to leader emergence.

Which of the following styles represents avoidance of leadership altogether?

Laissez-faire

Which type of power is sometimes referred to as "formal authority"?

Legitimate

_____ power derives from a position of authority inside the organization and is sometimes referred to as "formal authority."

Legitimate

_____ is the loss in team productivity that occurs when team members don't work as hard as they could.

Motivational loss

With which personality dimension are traits such as being emotional and moody associated?

Neuroticism

_____ ability refers to mathematical capabilities including the capability to do simple math operations.

Quantitative

_____ is the use of logical arguments and hard facts to show the target that a request is a worthwhile one.

Rational persuasion

_____ ability is a facet of cognitive ability one element of which involves the ability to sense that there's a problem right now or that there is likely to be one in the near future.

Reasoning

_____ power exists when others have a desire to identify and be associated with a person.

Referent

_____ power exists when someone has control over the resources another person wants.

Reward

_____ means having a good understanding of where one is relative to other things in the environment.

Spatial orientation

_____ reduce the importance of the leader while simultaneously providing a direct benefit to employee performance.

Substitutes

Abilities are a function of both genes and the environment.

TRUE

Ability refers to the relatively stable capabilities people have to perform a particular range of different but related activities.

TRUE

Apparent sincerity involves appearing to others to have high levels of honesty and genuineness.

TRUE

Conscientious people are dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hardworking, and persevering.

TRUE

Cultural values are defined as shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture.

TRUE

Dishonest people tend to fake a little more than other people in an integrity test.

TRUE

Getting more from the team than you would expect given the capabilities of its individual members refers to process gain.

TRUE

Noise increases the effort that the communicators need to exert to make the communication process work.

TRUE

People with legitimate power have the understood right to ask others to do things that are considered within the scope of their authority.

TRUE

Quantitative ability refers to the mathematical capabilities of number facility and mathematical reasoning.

TRUE

Team characteristics, such as member diversity, task interdependence, team size, and so forth, have an impact on team effectiveness.

TRUE

Which leader behavior is most appropriate for a group of employees who are working together for the first time and are eager to begin but lack the experience and confidence needed to perform their roles?

Telling

_____ leadership involves inspiring followers to commit to a shared vision that provides meaning to their work while also serving as a role model who helps followers develop their own potential and view problems from new perspectives.

Transformational

When members of a team develop strong emotional bonds to other members of the team and to the team itself, it refers to _____, which tends to foster high levels of motivation and commitment to the team.

cohension

When teams engage in _____ behavior, their activities are focused on generating novel and useful ideas and solutions.

creative

With a(n) _____ style, the leader presents the problem to a group of employees and seeks consensus on a solution, making sure that his or her own opinion receives no more weight than anyone else's.

facilitative

In the leader-member exchange theory, the _____ exchange dyad is marked by the frequent exchange of information, influence, latitude, support, and attention.

high-quality

To influence others using _____, leaders must have insight into the kinds of things that are important to the target.

inspirational appeals

In the leader-member exchange theory, the low-quality exchange dyad forms the leader's:

outgroup

The tendency to observe others and accurately interpret their behavior is called _____.

social astuteness

When members of a team exert less effort when working on team tasks than they would if they worked alone on those same tasks, the phenomenon is called:

social loafing

Process gain is synonymous with:

synergy