Ch. 1 Connect Smartbook

The decision by the San Francisco postmaster following the 1906 earthquake and fire to allow people to send letters regardless of whether they had stamps or not is an example of which type of response to a natural disaster?

Leadership initiative

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

They are both born and made

Which of the following describes a simple situation?

Predicable, orderly, right answers exist

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

Heroic theory

True or false: Leadership can be defined as part art and part science.

True

A leader's job in a complex situation is to

generate new ideas and ways of thinking among everyone

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

heroic

Which of the following is a phenomenon that refers to situations in which people feel themselves at risk of being judged by others holding negative images about them?

stereotype threat

Which of the following was not a factor in the success of Microsoft's founder Bill Gates?

His competition with Apple

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

Adolf Hitler

Which of the following best describes a leader?

Inspirational

Which is true of in groups?

Commitment to leaders is relatively high among members of the in group

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 true of the decision-making process in complex situations?

It should change to probe, sense, and respond.

Which of the following statements is true?

Leaders are born and made

Leadership is most associated with words like

Vision

Which of the following is an example of an emotional leader?

Adolf Hitler, Reverend Jim Jones, Martin Luther King

Which of the following is a myth?

Effective leadership is all common sense

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.

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 type of worker is not likely to be more willing to work extra hours on a time-critical project?

An individual who's motivation is solely monetary.

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

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

Which of the following is a definition of leadership that appears to exclude any kind of coercion as a leadership tool?

An interpersonal relation in which others comply because they want to, not because they have to

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

In the context of interaction all framework, ideal followers are most likely to be described as

Cooperative

Which of the following words is most often associated with the word "management"?

Efficiency

The definition of leadership that highlights the directing and controlling aspects of leadership may deemphasize the _____ aspects of leadership.

Emotional

All of the following except _____are part of the followers component of the interactional framework.

Expertise

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

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

False

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

False

True or false: Most researchers in the field of leadership are in agreement on the basic definition of leadership.

False

True or false: The tendency to view leadership using masculine attributes has greatly diminished over the last decade.

False

The success of Microsoft's founder can be attributed to his intelligence, his vision, and _____ among other things.

Gates' opportunity to practice computer programming while still in high school

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

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 is a conventional distinction between managers and leaders?

Managers administer, while leaders innovate

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

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

Situation

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

Strategy

According to Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership, which of the following statement is true about a pragmatist follower?

They are mediocre performers.

Which of the following are true about ideal leaders? (Check all that apply.)

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

What is Hollander's approach to leadership called?

Transactional approach

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

True

True or false: Leaders who punish members of the in-group risk losing the high levels of loyalty and commitment of their followers.

True

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

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

True or false: Research shows that while women receive more on-the-job mentoring than men, womens' mentors tend to have less clout than mens' mentors.

True

In a classic study of sex roles, Schein

demonstrated how bias in sex role stereotypes created problems for women moving up through managerial roles.

According to Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership, who among the following presents a consistent picture to both leaders and coworkers of being independent, innovative, and willing to stand up to superiors?

exemplary followers

How Parrado managed to convince the survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash to stage and support the final expedition would be most likely examined by researchers who define leadership as _____.

influencing an organized group toward accomplishing its goals

The less one looks like, acts like, dresses like, and talks like other leaders in the organization, the _____.

narrower the band of acceptable behavior

Which of the following is not a myth?

Leaders develop, whereas managers maintain

The cable made by a deputy in the San Francisco army to request tents, rations, and medicine following the earthquake and the response by William Howard Taft to dispatch the longest hospital train is an example of

Leadership initiative

According to Robert Kelley, what are the basic styles of followership?

Exemplary Passive Alienated

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.

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

Fred Fiedler

Management is often associated with which of the following terms?

Planning

Which type of follower is likely to be a mediocre performer who is rarely committed to the group's work goals?

Pragmatist

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

The personality of followers

Which definition of leadership appears to exclude informal leadership?

The process by which an agent induces a subordinate to behave in a desired manner

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

The success and failure of an organization

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."

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