MGT 412 Midterm
selling style
According to the situational theory of leadership, the selling style is based on a high concern for both relationships and tasks. With this approach, the leader provides task instruction and personal support, explains decisions, and gives followers a chance to ask questions and gain clarity about work tasks.
A person high on extroversion may come across as quiet, withdrawn, and socially unassertive.
False
A person's values cannot change throughout life as they are fairly well established by early adulthood.
False
At the preconventional level of personal moral development, people learn to conform to the expectations of others.
False
In the operational leadership role, an executive does not have direct control over people and resources to accomplish results.
False
Leadership involves maintaining the status quo, not creating change.
False
Leadership skills and qualities can be learned solely from a textbook.
False
Level 5 leaders are found in only senior leadership positions.
False
Managers and leaders are inherently different types of people as leadership and management cannot go hand-in-hand.
False
Robert K. Greenleaf
Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership Nonprofit organization, the phrase "servant leadership" was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader, an essay that he first published in 1970.
Which of the following statements is true of self-awareness?
Self-awareness involves appreciating how one's patterns affect other people.
Pike Syndrome
The power of the conditioning that limits people's thinking and behavior is illustrated by what has been called the Pike Syndrome. When people assume they have complete knowledge of a situation because of past experiences, they exhibit the Pike Syndrome, a trained incapacity that comes from rigid commitment to what was true in the past and an inability to consider alternatives and different perspectives.
According to the relational theories of leadership, management skills are seen as the most important facet of leadership effectiveness.
True
Cognitive approaches are preferences that are not necessarily rigid, but most people tend to have only a few preferred habits of thought.
True
Moral leadership is about distinguishing right from wrong and doing right, seeking the just, the honest, and the good, and the right conduct in achieving goals and fulfilling purpose.
True
One of the tactics for followers to manage up is to be a resource for the leader.
True
The Pike Syndrome illustrates the power of the conditioning that limits people's thinking and behavior.
True
Unethical leaders tend to take all the credit for successes, but they blame others when things go wrong.
True
Followers can influence their leaders by being:
a resource for the leader.
The operational role
a type of leadership role, is the closest to a traditional, vertically oriented management role, where an executive has direct control over people and resources to accomplish results.
Effective followers
align themselves with the purpose and the vision of the organization. By understanding the vision and goals, followers can be a resource of strength and support for the leader.
People with an internal locus of control:
believe they are "masters of their own fate."People who believe their actions determine what happens to them have a high internal locus of control.
Leaders can create organizational systems that support ethical behavior by:
creating open-door policies.
An effective leader
does not follow his or her assumptions because they led to success in the past
A passive follower exhibits critical, independent thinking and displays initiative and a sense of responsibility.
false
Leadership is the sole basis for the success of an organization.
false
The contingency approach to leadership sought to identify the traits leaders possessed that distinguished them from people who were not leaders.
false
The situational theory of leadership
focuses on the characteristics of followers as the most important element of the situation and consequently of determining effective leader behavior. The point of Hersey and Blanchard's theory is that subordinates vary in readiness level.
A servant leader:
helps others grow and develop and provides opportunities for others.
Current issues that require leaders to use both head and heart
include how to give people a sense of meaning and purpose when major changes occur almost daily; how to make employees feel valued and respected in an age of massive layoffs and job uncertainty; and how to keep morale and motivation high in the face of corporate bankruptcies and dissolutions, ethical scandals, and economic crises.
Servant leadership
is leadership upside down. Servant leaders transcend self-interest to serve the needs of others, help others grow and develop, and provide opportunity for others to gain materially and emotionally.
An alienated follower:
is passive, yet an independent thinker.They are often effective followers who have experienced setbacks and obstacles, perhaps promises broken by superiors.
Which of the following statements is true of leading with head and heart?
it keeps morale and motivation high
In the context of the trait approach to leadership, the diversity of traits that effective leaders possess indicates that:
leadership ability is not a genetic endowment.
self-awareness
means being aware of the internal aspects of one's nature, such as personality traits, emotions, values, attitudes, and perceptions, and appreciating how your patterns affect other people. Most leadership experts agree that a primary characteristic of effective leaders is that they know who they are and what they stand for.
According to the situational theory of leadership, a leader with a _____ provides both task instruction and personal support, explains decisions, and gives followers a chance to ask questions and gain clarity about work tasks.
selling leadership style
The Great Man approach
sought to identify the traits leaders possessed that distinguished them from people who were not leaders. Research early in the twentieth century examined leaders who had achieved a level of greatness and hence became known as the Great Man approach.
Good leadership is about:
standing up for what one believes is the best for the organization.
Leaders have many mental models that tend to govern how they interpret experiences and how they act in response to people and situations.
true
The situational theory of leadership focuses on the characteristics of leaders as the most important element of the situation.
true
contingency theory
'Situational' (or 'Contingency') leadership models are based on the idea that the leader's actions should vary according to the circumstances he or she is facing - in other words leadership methods change according to the 'situation' in which the leader is leading.
