Leadership test 1

"Know thyself and to thy self be true" summarizes which leadership approach?

Authentic

A leader firing employees by text message from his vacation home would be violating which dimension of a beautiful leadership performance?

Coherence

Jose goes along with the accounting fraud of his boss in order to get a large bonus. He is which type of bad follower?

Colluder: Acolyte

Which of the following is a true statement about the three skill leadership model?

Conceptual skill is most important at the highest level of the organization

Which is the MOST engaged type of follower?

Diehards

Encouraging employees to take ownership is part of which transformational leadership characteristic?

Empowering

A crew manager comes into work extra hours with her crew members. She is demonstrative which kind of effective impression management strategy?

Exemplification

Which of the following is a task-oriented behavior?

Goal setting

Which theorist(s) developed Situational Leadership Theory

Hersey and Blanchard

According to the CIP model, which type of leader looks to the past?

Ideological

The director of your department attends one weekly meeting. The director is seldom at the office outside of the meeting and rarely responds to e-mails when you send questions pertaining to the organization. This is an example of

Impoverished management

The transformational approach to leadership was first outlined by

James MacGregor Burns

Defining leadership as the exercise of influence reflects which theme?

Leadership is about how you act

Which definitional theme of leadership focuses on the leaders traits and attributes?

Leadership is about who you are

Ability to learn falls into which set of task related competencies?

Leading oneself

When solving complex dilemmas, which type of skill is needed to implement the decision?

Social judgement

A governor who delivers speeches in form of the state seal is paying careful attention to which element of impression management?

Staging

John is struggling to learn the new accounting system and feels anxious. According to Path-Goal theory, his supervisor should use which style with john?

Supporting

The human ability to manipulate ______ allows for the creativity of reality

Symbols

Which leadership style is characterized by contingent reward and management by exception?

Transformational

More than 30 years ago, LMX theory appeared under the title of

Vertical dyad linkage theory

According to LMX Theory, what is a true statement about followers who have high quality relationships with leaders?

all of the above

Creating a positive emotional tone in a team is effectively utilizing emotions at which level?

all of the above

Effective visions

all of the above

Which of the following is true about leaders and followers?

all of the above

In authentic leadership, ________ describes remaining objective when receiving information

balanced processing

Researcher Ralph Stogdill in his 1974 review of traits research concluded that:

both personal traits and situational factors influenced leadership strength

According to John Kotter, the outcome of leadership is

change

Which of the following is NOT one of Dean Barnlund's five basic components of human communication?

communication is reversible

according to the transactional model of communication.

communicators simultaneously send and receive messages

All of the following traits have been linked to leadership EXCEPT:

conscientiousness

John Jotter suggests that here are three central activities common to the process of managing and leading: they are

creating an agenda, developing a human network for achieving the agenda, and executing the agenda

There are five primary characteristics associated with the transformational leader; they are

creative, interactive, visionary, empowering, and passionate

according to situational leadership theory, which leadership style should be used with followers with low job maturity and low willingness to do the job?

directing

according to House and Mitchell, four communication/leadership styles may be identified with the Path-Goal theory, they are

directive, supportive, participative, and achievement oriented

Creative thinking is frequently referred to as:

divergent or lateral thinking

Narcissism and Machiavellianism reflect which cause of destructive leadership behavior?

environmental factors

the person who emerges as a leader by taking charge in an emergency situation provides an example of which approach to leadership>

functional

Charisma in Greek means

gift

Transformational leaders who act as admired role models are demonstrating which transformational leadership factor?

idealized influence

When leaders use their behavior to create the desired perceptions in the minds of followers, they are engaged in

impression management

According to Kellerman, bad leadership falls into two categories

ineffective and unethical

impressions management by leaders should be judged by

its end product

according to Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership approach, there are two major components that can be plotted to assess follower maturity; they are

job maturity and psychological maturity

which theory focuses on the relationships between leaders and followers?

leader-member exchange theory (LMX)

which is a true statement about the relationship of personality to leadership?

leaders score higher om extraversion

The _________ leader is self absorbed and overestimates his/her abilities

narcissistic

In path-goal theory, the most influential variable in selecting a leadership style are

nature of followers and follower needs

All of the following are true statements about authentic leadership theory EXCEPT:

not yet empirically tested

Which of the following is more associated with management than leadership

organizing and staffing

Supervisor Tina and her employee Justine have a well-developed relationship in which they influence each other and trust each other. They are what stage of the leadership-making process?

partnership

According to Abraham Maslow, five hierarchically arranged human needs exist, they are

physiological needs, safety needs, belonging and love needs, self esteem needs, and self actualization needs

Chandra focuses on the present, looking for the causes of problems facing her organization? She is likely a _______ leader

pragmatic

Identifying new problems is called the ________ to creativity

problem-finding orientation

All of the following are true of people who are highly willing to communicate EXCEPT:

quit organizations sooner

Judy loses her temper when in a conflict even when she doesn't to. She lacks which emotional competency?

regulation of emotion

The transactional leader satisfies all of the following EXCEPT:

self-actualization needs

the first step in the leader making relationship is

stranger

Which of the following is more characteristic of charismatic leadership than transformational leadership?

strong emotional connection

Alfred's followers have the skill to produce the new product but lack the motivation to do so. What leadership style should they use?

supporting

Which two features of human communication are particularity important to leadership?

symbolic, conscious

John acts as the initiator in his group, setting the agenda for the team. He is playing which type of functional group role?

task related

The traits approach argues

that nature plays a key role in determining leadership potential

Alan is running quality tests on the new application he developed. He is at which stage of the creative process?

verification