Mgt 475 Chapter 1-2

Which of the following involves participants being given a limited amount of time to prioritize and respond to a number of notes, phone messages, and letters? (p.61)

In-basket exercises

What is a frequent lesson learned by both men and women from their career experiences? (p.56

Handling political situations

Which of the following is true of the leadership definitions? (p.5)

Various definitions illustrate that many factors affect leadership

Which of the following statement about leadership is most likely true (p.12)

Natural characteristics or talents can offer certain leadership advantages or disadvantages.

Which statement about perceptual sets is most likely FALSE? (p.48)

Perceptual sets are the tendency to perceive everything.

Which statement about followership styles is most likely true? (p.20)

Pragmatist followers tend to be mediocre performers.

What is most likely an advantage of role playing in leadership development programs? (p.60)

Provides greater transferability to the workplace

The interactional framework for analyzing leadership includes: (p.15)

followers, leaders, and situations.

Crediting your own successes to dispositional factors and others' successes to factors in the environment are aspects of: (p.50)

fundamental attribution error.

Ideal followers are most likely to be perceived as: (p.23)

independent.

In the informal coaching process, a leader is most likely to inspire commitment from a follower by _____. (p.69)

reviewing performance appraisals

A situation in which one's expectations or predictions help determine the very results predicted is referred to as: (p.53)

self-fulfilling prophecy.

Leadership training programs for mid-level managers are LEAST likely to focus on improving _____ skills. (p.61)

strategic planning

Leadership is most associated with: (p.8)

vision.

In perception, which term refers to the process of assigning underlying causes to behaviors? (p.49)

Attribution

Which statement about leaders and managers is most likely false? (p.8)

Leaders accept the status quo; managers challenge it.

What best describes the leader-follower relationship? (p.22)

Leadership and followership merge and are linked concepts.

Which of the following statements is true of leadership and management? (p.9)

Leadership and management have both unique functions and an area of overlap.

What is Hollander's approach to leadership called? (p.15)

Transactional

People who are observing an action are much more likely than the actor to make the fundamental attribution error. This is called: (p.50)

actor/observer difference.

Leadership studies programs at the university-level (p. 58)

are increasingly popular at many liberal-arts institutions.

Schein's classic study of sex roles: (p.28)

demonstrated how bias in sex role stereotypes created problems for women moving up through managerial roles.

Which statement about action learning is most likely FALSE? (p.65)

Action learning involves attending classes, watching videotapes, and working in teams to create development plans for the firm.

which of the following statements about common sense is most likely true? (p.11)

A challenge of leadership is to know when common sense applies and when it does not

describe leadership situations and are used as vehicles for leadership discussions. (p.60)

Case studies

Which term refers to a kind of learning between the individual and the environment in which learners seek relatively little feedback that may significantly confront their fundamental ideas or actions? (p.54)

Deutero-learning

Which of the following involves confronting your beliefs, inviting others to challenge you, and working on personal blind spots (p.54)

Double-loop learning

Which of the following statements about the rational and emotional aspects of leadership is most likely false? (p.6)

Effective leadership involves actions based exclusively on reason and logic

Which term is most often associated with the word "management"? (p.8)

Efficiency

Which statement about in-groups and out-groups is most likely correct? (p.16)

In-group members are loyal and committed to a leader

In a complex situation, what is the leader's most important role? (p.27)

Increase levels of interaction and communication.

Which of the following is a conventional distinction that is made between managers and leaders? (p.8)

Managers maintain, while leaders develop.

Which statement about the reflection component of the A-O-R model is most likely FALSE? (p.52)

The importance of reflection in leadership development is rarely addressed by scholars.

Which of the following best defines leadership? (p.5)

The process of influencing an organized group toward accomplishing its goals

What is the reason behind the usage of the phrase "desirable opportunities" in one of the definitions of leadership? (p.5)

To distinguish between leadership and tyranny

Leadership development is enhanced when experience involves the three processes of: (p.45)

action, observation, and reflection.

In the informal coaching process, a leader is most likely to help a follower to grow skills by: (p.69)

creating a coaching plan.

In leaderless group discussions, facilitators and observers rate participants and provide feedback about _____ skills. (p.61)

interpersonal

According to some leadership experts, leadership: (p.4)

is an interpersonal relation in which others comply because they want to.

The process by which an older and more experienced person helps to socialize and encourage younger organizational colleagues is called: (p.71)

mentoring.