Theories of leadership ch 1-3

Meetings between a new leader and peers should do all of the following except which?

Establish individuals with whom they can confide

According to Robert Kelley, what are the basic styles of followership? (Check all that apply.)

Exemplary Passive Alienated

True or false: Being an expert on leadership research is both necessary and sufficient to being a good leader.

False

Which leadership development technique can help identify 'blind spots' an individual may be unaware of?

Feedback-based approach

Which of the following is not a goal of leadership studies programs?

Focusing on a single discipline such as psychology or organizational behavior

The notion of the interaction between leaders, followers, and the situation is best demonstrated by which of the following?

Followers may respond to each other differently with different leaders.

Which of the following statements regarding formal coaching programs is true?

Formal coaching usually involves regular meetings between the coach and the manager.

What occurs when an organization assigns a relatively inexperienced, but high-potential leader to one of the top-executives in the company?

Formal mentoring

The first researcher to formally recognize the importance of the leader, follower, and situation in the leadership process was

Fred Filder

Which of the following does not help explain the shift towards more women leaders?

Geography has changed.

Which was not a basic issue that emerged among the survivors of the 1972 plane crash in the Andes mountains?

Identifying a worthy leader.

In which situation should a new leader meet individually with team members during the first two weeks on the job?

If the team has fewer than 15 members.

Which technique is especially useful for assessing and improving a manager's planning and time management techniques?

In-basket exercises

Perhaps the most important yet most neglected component of the action- observation-reflection model is reflection. Why is reflection important?

It can provide leaders with a variety of insights into how to frame problems differently.

According to the text, which is true of leadership?

It is a result of the interaction between a leader and followers.

Which of the following is not a myth?

Leaders develop, whereas managers maintain.

Which of the following statement is true of the leadership skill?

Leadership can be both innate and acquired.

Identify a true statement about the rational and emotional aspects of leadership.

Leadership involves both the rational and emotional sides of human experience.

Which of the following should leaders keep in mind when developing their own leadership skills? (Check all that apply.)

No leader possesses all of the knowledge and skills required to be successful. Leaders should work and focus on development goals that matter.

Which of the following skills was most important to the emergence of leadership among the survivors of the 1972 plane crash in the Andes.

Persuasiveness in decision making.

Management is often associated with which of the following terms?

Planning

Nick is excited about his new job and wants to prioritize his tasks. Identify the task Nick need not perform during the first two months of his new job.

Practice the 10 percent stretch rule

Which of the five steps of informal coaching is important to attracting and retaining followers to the work group?

Shaping the environment

Barbara is a candidate for a managerial position in a financial services firm. Identify the tasks she should most likely perform as part of preparing for the interview process. (More than one answer may be correct.)

She should use social networking sites to set up informational interviews with people inside the firm. She should read as much as she can about the firm by reviewing its website, annual reports, and marketing literature.

Identify the true statements about leadership training programs aimed particularly toward leaders and supervisors in industry or public service. (More than one answer may be correct.)

The programs for midlevel managers rely on case studies, presentations, simulations, and in-basket exercises to help leaders develop. They have strong parallels to the content and techniques used in university-level courses on leadership.

Which of the following were the findings of a classic study of sex roles by Schein? (Check all that apply.)

There is no correlation between the ways the respondents perceived "females" and "managers." There is a high correlation between the ways both male and female respondents perceived "males" and "managers."

Which of the following is true of college professors who are considered leaders?

They are both born and made.

Which of the following are true about ideal leaders?

They should use rational techniques and emotional appeals to influence followers. They must weigh the rational and emotional consequences of their actions.

Which of the following illustrates leader development?

Training designed to develop one's skill in giving feedback to another person

Research shows that coaching may be more effective at changing behavior than traditional learning and training approaches.

True

Which is not a benefit of reflection?

Using self-serving bias to better position oneself within the organization.

Which of the following best identifies when informal coaching takes place?

Whenever a leader helps a follower change their behavior

Jayden is a candidate for a managerial position in a tech firm. Identify the questions he should most likely seek answers to during the interview process. (Check all that apply.)

Why is the firm looking for an outside hire for the position? What is currently not working in the function or team to be led? What can make the function or team to be led more effective?

Identify the advantages of establishing a task force.

Will allow new leaders to see the stars in action. Will both improve the odds that good recommendations are made.

The findings by Eden and Shani that individuals placed in a high potential group were perceived to have higher potential than those placed in an unknown or regular potential group even though potential was never actually assessed reflects

a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Jim wants to make a good first impression with his new boss. He knows he'll have __________ to do this in his first meeting with the new boss.

about one hour

The leader development technique that addresses actual company challenges is called _________.

action learning

The three processes that enhance leadership development are __________.

action, reflection, observation

Explanations we develop for the characteristics, behaviors, or actions we attend to are called

attributions

The five step informal coaching process is most efficient for

both high and low performing followers.

The glass _____ refers to the intriguing finding that female candidates for an executive position are more likely to be hired than equally qualified male candidates when an organization's performance is declining.

cliff

All of the following terms are often associated with leadership except

control

According to the leadership myth "Good leadership is all common sense," one needs more than just common sense to be a good leader.

false

Most researchers in the field of leadership are in agreement on the basic definition of leadership.

false

True or false: A difference between a leader and a manager is that a leader administers while a manager innovates.

false

True or false: Because of their vast knowledge of the field, leadership scholars are always good leaders.

false

True or false: Formal study and learning from experience are mutually exclusive and antagonistic.

false

True or false: Leader development and leadership development refer to the same phenomenon.

false

True or false: Self-fulfilling prophecy refers to the explanations we develop for behaviors to which we attend.

false

Johnson, a new team leader, should meet individually with everyone during the first two weeks on the team if the team has _____.

fewer than 15 people

If leaders have more than two development needs, they should _____.

first work to acquire one or two skills before moving on to the next set of development needs

An individual who takes credit for successes but blames the situation for failures

has a self-serving bias.

The ______ theory represented the dominant way of conceptualizing leadership for a long time, but has now been largely discredited.

heroic

The theory of leadership that argued that leadership is a general personality trait expressed independently of the situation is known as

heroic theory

Which of the following best describes a leader?

inspirational

The interactional framework takes Hollander's transactional approach to leadership one step further by additionally exploring

interactions

A leadership approach often used by women that emphasizes enhancing others' self-worth, and believing that the best performance occurs when people are excited about their work and feel good about themselves is called ______ leadership.

interactive

On the first day on the job, new hires should expect to ______.

meet the boss and the team

During the first two weeks on a job, a new hire should do all of the following except

meet with the families and spouses of direct reports.

Mick has taken a new hire, Brian, under his wing and is helping Brian by giving him knowledge, advice, challenge, counsel, and support about career opportunities, organizational strategy and policy, office politics. This process can be described as ______.

mentoring

Our tendency or bias to perceive one thing and not another is referred to as our _______.

perceptual set

A leadership development program that uses wilderness survival techniques is probably focusing on

personal growth

Which best describes leader development at 3M?

personal growth, skill building, feedback, and conceptual awareness.

Which is not part of the A-O-R model?

response

The situation that occurs when one's expectations or predictions play a causal role in bringing about the events one predicts is known as _____.

self-fulfilling prophecy

The tendency to make external attributions for your own failures yet make internal attributions for your successes refers to

self-serving bias.

Academic programs to develop social responsibility and engagement in the local community use ______.

service learning

When an individual learns only about subjects within the comfort zone of their belief system they are using _________ learning.

single-loop

When learners seek relatively little feedback that confronts their fundamental ideas or actions they are using

single-loop learning.

Task, stress, and the environment are all part of which component of the interactional framework?

situation

To increase buy-in and support for change decisions, new leaders should _____ their strategy, structure, and staffing ideas with their boss and peers before making personnel decisions.

socialize

Fred Fiedler's contingency model of the leadership process included all of the following except

strategy

During ______, a leader should work to "socialize" his or her strategy, structure, and staffing ideas with both bosses and peers before making any personal changes.

the first three months in a new position

The term perceptual set refers to

the notion that we are selective in what we attend to and what we perceive.

All of the following are areas of study by leadership researchers except ___.

the personality of followers

Fundamental attribution error can best be described as

the tendency to overestimate the dispositional causes of behavior and underestimate the environmental causes when others fail.

True or false: 3M's commitment to leadership development is illustrated by its decision to make talent development a core business strategy.

true

True or false: It is essential to consider both context and followers when determining leadership effectiveness.

true

The notion that a person being coached must want to change; assessments are important; some behaviors cannot be changed; practice is critical; and there is no substitute for accountability are all ______.

"best practices" for coaches.

When making behavior changes, how many areas should leaders work on at the same time?

1-2

How much more do top performers typically contribute to an organization compared to average performers?

20-50% more

A review of the 2019 S&P 500 list by the nonprofit organization Catalyst has reported that only ____ percent of CEOs in the United States were women.

6

Which type of leader is most likely to get complete and timely information from subordinates?

A leader with a calm disposition who doesn't attack others for bringing bad news.

Which of the following is not a good source of information about behaviors leaders need to change?

A program on new leadership techniques

Which leader development technique focuses on learning by doing?

Action learning

Which of the following individuals could best be described as one who aroused destructive feelings in followers?

Adolf Hitler

Laura is jokingly referred to as a Debbie Downer. She is always quick to point out the negative aspects of the organization. What type of follower is Laura?

Alienated

Which of the following is not an example of how researchers have defined leadership?

The success and failure of an organization

True or false: Leadership includes something happening as an outcome of the interaction between a leader and followers.

true

True or false: People prefer to explain others' behavior on the basis of personal attributions even when obvious situational factors may fully account for the behavior.

true

True or false: Research on how men and women describe their leadership experiences shows than men use transactional terms while women choose transformational terms.

true

Researchers have studied how male and female executives describe the important lessons they've learned from their career experiences, and found that taking charge of career was a lesson frequently identified by ___.

women only

Compared to a manager, a leader

challenges the status quo.

All of the following except which is a critical lesson learned from formal coaching?

All behaviors can be changed.

Which of the following is not an example of an emotional leader?

All of the above are emotional leaders.

An exercise in which participants have a limited amount of time to prioritize and respond to notes, letters, and phone messages from a fictitious manager's in-basket is called

An exercise in which participants have a limited amount of time to prioritize and respond to notes, letters, and phone messages from a fictitious manager's in-basket is called

Which leader is most likely to gain the respect of followers?

An individual whose followers have participated in the selection of the leader.

According to the research, which is the most valuable factor in coaching?

Clear, direct feedback

Which of the following is a myth?

Effective leadership is all common sense.

Which of the following is not one of the five steps of informal coaching?

Encouraging competition