MGT Test 1

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The Ohio State Research Study on leadership behavior found that employee grievances and turnover were lowest when.

Consideration was high and initiating structure was low

Alvis corp. delegated a decision about changing production standards. The case best reinforced which of the following participative leadership principles

joint decision

Influence tactic of 'rational persuasion' is most correlated to which power:

legitmate

Will this order change when you are at a top level of management 15 years from now? If so, what new order is likely to exist later in your career?

Conceptual, interpersonal, technical

A leader with socialized power motivation is more likely to

Empower subordinates to grow and develop

What process is most emphasized in the definition of leadership proposed by Yukl?

Facilitating collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives

Kathy McCarthy, the production manager in the Alvis Corporation delegated a decision about changing production standards and its relationship to employee compensation. This case reinforced which of the following participative leadership principles

Rarely permit joint decision making when management has an interest in a specific outcome

In the "Consolidated Products" Case, the first plant manager Ben Samuels, supported employee perks like the fitness center, picnics and parties...and knew his workers by name. In Yukl's multi-dimensional model of leadership behaviors which of the following would best describe Ben's leadership behaviors?

Relations Behaviors

As a lower level manager, early in your career, your technical, conceptual, and interpersonal skills will have the greatest to least impact on leadership success... in the following order.

Technical, interpersonal, conceptual

Which of the following is not a "Big 5" personality traits? a. surgency b. reliability c. conscientiousness d. agreeableness e. adjustment f. intellectance

b

Which decision process always combines leader participation with leader control over the final decision?

consultation

According to the managerial job/role research in the reading on the nature of managerial work, which of the following statements is not correct?

demands and constraints are essentially the same for most managerial jobs

what type of power is the elimination of private offices into a shared work space

environmental power

In our discussion on "adaptive leadership", we determined that when a follower is in the "unconscious incompetence" stage of development we should approach them with a coach style, allowing them to try repeatedly and provide feedback. (T/F)

false

Personalized power motivation was most effective because it included expert power style and usually excluded coercive power style (T/F)

false

Which leadership trait or skill is most likely to facilitate effective empowerment?

high adaptive leadership skills

Effective managers are least likely to have which of the following traits?

high affiliation orientation

Which influence process is most likely to result in continued commitment to a task objective regardless of the manager's subsequent actions?

internalization

The influence tactic of "exchange" is most closely correlated to which of the following Power Types.

referent

In this same discussion we agreed that when a follower is "unconsciously competent" our best approach is to build capacity and ownership through delegation (T/F)

true

While both traits and skills are predictive of leadership success, skills have a higher correlation to effectiveness (T/F)

true


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