Leadership 101 Ch. 2

In the 1950's, Mann suggested that certain traits could be used to distinguish leaders from nonleaders. His results identified leaders as strong in the following six traits: intelligence, femininity, adjustment, submission, introversion, and liberalism.

False

Judge et al. found a strong relationship between the Big Five traits and leadership. Specifically, in their study, conscientiousness was the factor most strongly associated with leadership.

False

The ability to be certain about one's competencies and skills

Self-confidence

A leader's inclination to seek out pleasant social relationships

Sociability

The ability to understand one's own and others' feelings, behaviors, and thoughts and to act appropriately is known as ______.

Social intelligence

Intelligence or intellectual ability is positively related to leadership.

True

Leadership involves influencing others, and self-confidence allows the leader to feel assured that his or her attempts to influence others are appropriate and right.

True

The idea behind strengths leadership is that everyone has talents in which they excel or thrive and leaders are able to not only recognize and capitalize on their own strengths but those of their followers as well.

True

The trait approach began with an emphasis on identifying the qualities of great persons, shifted to include the impact of situations on leadership, and, currently, has shifted back to reemphasize the critical role of traits in effective leadership.

True

The election of the United States' first African-American president Barack Obama in 2008 catapulted which kind of leadership to the forefront of public attention?

charismatic

The desire to get the job done, which may include use of characteristics such as initiative, persistence, dominance, and drive

determination

The ability to perceive and express emotions, to use emotions to facilitate thinking, to understand and reason with emotions, and to effectively manage emotions within oneself and in relationships with others

emotional intelligence

All of the following are on the extended list of traits that individuals might hope to possess or wish to cultivate if they want to be perceived by others as leaders, EXCEPT ______.

friendliness

Early theories developed around the trait approach were called ______ theories because they focused on identifying the innate qualities and characteristics possessed by great social, political, and military leaders.

great man

A trait assessment gives individuals a clearer picture of who they are as leaders and how they fit into the organizational ______.

hierarchy

The quality of honesty and trustworthiness

integrity

Steve Jobs, founder and former CEO of Apple once said, "I have this really incredible product inside me and I have to get it out." Job was an example of a leader for whom ______ was a key trait.

intelligence

All of the following are components of The Big Five EXCEPT ______.

introversion

The trait approach is very different from other approaches because it focuses exclusively on the ______, not on the ______ or the ______.

leader; followers; situation

The trait approach's narrow focus on ______ is considered both a strength and a weakness.

leaders

Kirkpatrick and Locke contended that leadership traits make some people different from others, and this difference should be recognized as an important part of the ______ process.

leadership

The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test measures emotional intelligence as a set of ______ abilities, including the abilities to perceive, facilitate, understand, and manage emotion.

mental

MacKie suggests that our leadership capability is enhanced when we are able to discover all of the following EXCEPT ______.

our dreams

Stogdill reconceptualized leadership as a ______ between people in a social situation.

relationship

Each of the following are traits that were identified as positively associated with leadership in Stogdill's second survey on the trait approach, EXCEPT ______.

risk aversion and uniformity in problem-solving

Fatima is a manager in charge of personnel. Today she will have to write up an employee for excessive tardiness. She knows the employee might feel embarrassed and get upset when she tells them the bad news, so she decides to wait until the end of the day and bring them in her office away from the group to have the conversation. Which of these is Fatima displaying in this situation?

social intelligence

A(n) ______ is defined as an attribute or quality of an individual that accounts for successful performance.

strength

A criticism of the trait approach is that this approach has resulted in highly ______ determinations of the most important leadership traits.

subjective

In the mid-20th century, the trait approach was challenged by research that questioned the ______ of leadership traits.

universality

A strength of the trait approach is that it has ______ of research to back it up.

A century