L&C Midterm

Which of the following statements about common sense is probably true?

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

The tendency to make external attributions for one's own failures and internal attributions for one's successes is known as

A self-serving bias

Leadership development is enhanced when an experience involves three processes, which are

Action, Observation, Reflection

What is the fastest way to alter the culture and norms of a team?

Change the people in the team

Schein's clssic study of sex roles

Demonstrated how bias in sex role stereotypes create problems for women moving up through managerial roles

Which of the following statements is true of leaders with high levels of technical competence?

Followers are generally more satisfied with them rather than leaders with average levels of technical competence.

Ideal followers are most likely perceived as:

Independent

Which of the following statements is true of coercive power?

It has the possibility to be used by followers to influence their leader's behavior.

Which of the following statements is most likely true about defensiveness?

It occurs when someone feels threatened.

Which of the following best describes the term "attribution of blame"?

Justifying immoral behavior by claiming it was caused by someone else's actions

The ____ asked leaders to indicate the extent to which they believed different consideration and initiating behaviors were important to leadership success

Leadership Opinion Questionnaire (LOQ)

Which of the following statements about leadership is most likely true?

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

Which of the following is a good way to generate ideas pertinent to a problem and is similar to brainstorming?

Nominal Group Technique (NGT)

According to Zemke's four generations of workers, which of the following statements is most likely true of the Veteran's

They represent a wealth of lore and wisdom

What are four qualities of leadership that engender trust according to Bennis and Goldsmith

Vision, empathy, consistency, and integrity

Work facilitation behaviors are concerned with

acquiring and allocating resources.

According to the OCEAN model, individuals who appear as insensitive, socially clueless, pessimistic, cold, and grumpy are most likely to score low in

agreeableness

Which of the following is a key developmental objective of leaders in the second quadrant of the credibility matrix?

building relationships with co-workers

According to Hogan and Warrenfelz, competencies concerned with analyzing issues, making decisions, and strategic thinking fall into the ____ category

business skills

________ describe leadership situations and are used as vehicles for leadership discussions.

case studies

____ use a graphic approach to depict systematically the root causes of a problem, the relationships between different causes, and potentially a prioritization of which causes are most important

cause and effect diagrams

Followers are highly likely to use ____ power to change their leaders behavior if they have a relatively high amount of referent power with their fellow coworkers

coercive

Unlike individuals who score low in extraversion, individuals who score high in this dimension

come across to others as decisive and opinionated.

____ occurs when agents ask targets to participate in planning an activity

consultation

Which of the following is most likely an outcome of regularly practicing a 10 percent stretch?

decreasing apprehensions about doing something new or different

Which of the following is the most important step in conducting a meeting?

determining if the meeting is necessary

Raymond scores high on practical intelligence and has extensive knowledge and experience in leading a pharmaceutical research team. He is likely to feel uncomfortable and unprepared when asked to organize a major fund-raising activity for a charitable institution. This example illustrates that practical intelligence is most likely

domain specific

According to the Five Factor Model (FFM) or OCEAN model of personality, which of the following dimensions primarily involves behaviors that are highly likely to be exhibited in group settings and are generally concerned with getting ahead in life

extraversion

Community leaders are most likely to

have fewer resources than most leaders

Goal emphasis and work facilitation are ___ dimensions of leadership behavior

job-centered

The ____ states that if one simply works hard and achieves superior results, then good things will happen

just-world hypothesis

Values are most likely

learned through the socialization process

Legitimizing tactics most likely occur when agents

make requests based on their position or authority.

People do not see everything that happens in a particular leadership situation, nor do they hear everything; instead they are selective in what they attend to and what they, in turn, understand. A phenomenon that demonstrates this selectivity is called

perceptual set

Which of the following is an approach, developed and popularized by Covey, which postulates a fundamental interdependence between the personal, the interpersonal, the managerial, and the organizational levels of leadership

principle-centered leadership

____ is most likely to be associated with the role friendships play in making things happen

referent power

Technical competence is especially important for the first-line supervisors because they

spend considerable time training their followers.

During the first two weeks on the job, a new leader should conduct in-person meetings with their peers. Which of the following issues should be discussed with the peers?

the ways issues are raised and decisions made on their boss's team

What is Hollanders approach to leadership called?

transactional