OS286 Ch. 13 Quiz

Humble leaders display all of the following key qualities valued by employees except

low self-awareness.

Emotional intelligence has been shown by research to have a large, positive, and significant association with leadership effectiveness.

False: Emotional intelligence has a small, positive, and significant association with leadership effectiveness.

Leader behaviors are the outcome of an integrated model of leadership.

False: Figure 13.2 shows that the outcome of the integrated model of leadership is leadership effectiveness and leader behaviors are an input.

Strategic skills are the most important to managers at middle levels of the organization.

False: Leaders need strategic skills to craft an organization's mission, vision, strategies, and implementation plans. Strategic skills matter most for individuals at the top ranks in an organization.

Unlike other elements of OB, leadership is not influenced by situational factors.

False: The final component influencing leadership effectiveness—situational factors—involves contingency theory. See Figure 13.2.

_________ are the dimensions of situational control in Fiedler's model.

Leader-member relations, task structure, and position power

Which of the following interpersonal traits has research shown to have a negative relationship with leadership effectiveness?

Machiavellianism

___________ focuses on clarifying employees' role and task requirements and providing followers with positive and negative rewards contingent on performance.

Transactional leadership

A key variable in Fiedler's model is situational control, which is composed of leader-member relations, task structure, and the leader's position power.

True

Consideration involves leader behavior associated with creating mutual respect or trust and focuses on a concern for group members' needs and desires.

True

Inspirational motivation involves establishing an attractive vision, the use of emotional arguments, and exhibition of optimism and enthusiasm.

True

Twenty-first-century leaders face unique challenges to address critical new competencies, which include all of the following except

defining roles.

When a leader is encouraging employees to question the status quo and seek innovative and creative solutions to organizational problems, he or she is engaging in

intellectual stimulation.

The primary purpose of _________ behaviors is to enhance employees' skills and to create positive work relationships among coworkers and between the leader and his or her employees.

relationship-oriented

A global mind-set is an increasingly valued _________ trait.

task-oriented