QUIZ 4/5/6

Which of the following statements best exemplifies effective delegation?

A leader must give subordinates the freedom to make certain kinds of mistakes.

Identify a true statement about providing constructive feedback.

An issue related to impressions and evaluative feedback concerns the distinction between job-related feedback and more discretionary feedback.

Which statement about delegation is most likely false?

Delegation is an overused management option that frustrates most followers.

According to Boris Groysberg's division of skills into buckets, leadership and management skills are less portable than produce skills.

False

According to the Leadership Grid, 1,1 leaders are the most effective in workplaces.

False

According to the Leadership Pipeline, people who skip organizational levels often turn out to be effective leaders

False

Framing is the leadership competency of developing relationships that allow people to work together in the community across their differences.

False

General goals work better than specific goals because they often provide enough information regarding which behaviors are to be changed or when a clear end state has been attained.

False

In the context of group size, leaders with a small span of control tend to be more directive, spend less time with individual subordinates, and use more impersonal approaches when influencing followers than do leaders with a large span of control.

False

Leaders with a large span of control tend to display more consideration and use more personal approaches when influencing followers.

False

Organizations usually offer on-boarding programs to help internal candidates move into top managerial roles, which help them figure out how to operate at this leadership level.

False

Research shows that followers are significantly happier when their leaders frequently delegate tasks.

False

Social contact is better satished by organzations than by groups

False

Subordinates can usually tell whether or not they are doing a good job even without feedback.

False

To maximize the impact of feedback, people should provide feedback to large groups instead of specific individuals.

Fase

Identify a true statement about goal setting.

Follower participation in goal setting often leads to higher levels of commitment and performance if the leader is perceived to be incompetent.

The leadership competency of helping a group or community recognize and dehne its opportunities and issues in ways that result in effective action is known as

Framing

A manager makes the following statement to a subordinate: "I need this report back in five minutes, and it better be perfect." Which term best describes this type of role conflict?

Intrasender role conflict

Which of the following statements is most likely true of delegation.

Leaders may feel threatened when delegating an important task because it reduces direct personal control over the work

It is most ikely important to have specific goals for the purpose of

Measuring progress

Which of the tollowing stateiments about eedback is inost tikely false

Research shows that subordinates believe their leaders give more feedback than their leaders think they do,

In comparing teams and group members, which statement is most likely true?

Team members can readily identify who is and who is not on the team; identifying members of a group may be more difficult.

Which of the following concepts was most likely promoted by Boris Groysberg?

The difference between portable and nonportable skills.

Identify a true statement about leadership skills according to Hogan and Warrenfelz's four major categories of skills and behaviors found in virtually every organizational competency model.

They are skills and behaviors concerned with building teams and getting results through others.

The LBDQ-XII assesses behaviors such as being able to tolerate uncertainty and acting as a representative for a group.

Truc

A leadership skill consists of three components: a well-defined body of knowledge, a set of related behaviors, and clear criteria of competent performance.

True

A symptom of groupthink is an illusion of invulnerability, which leads to unwarranted optimism and excessive risk taking by a group.

True

According to Peterson and Hicks, good coaches orchestrate rather than dictate development.

True

According to a comprehensive study by Mount, Sytsma, Hazucha, and Holt, white peers and subordinates generally gave about the same level of ratings for both black and white peers and bosses.

True

An issue related to impressions and evaluative feedback.concerns the distinction between job-related feedback and more personal or discretionary feedback.

True

An outsider to a group often is able to learn more about norms than is an insider.

True

Forging a partnership is the first step in informal coaching.

True

Giving constructive feedback involves sharing information or perceptions with another about the nature, quality, or impact of that person's behavior.

True

Groups are characterized by mutual interaction and reciprocal influence.

True

Highly cohesive groups are likely to be characterized by low absenteeism and low turnover.

True

In the context of effective delegation, the first step leaders should take when deciding what to delegate is to identify all their present activities.

True

Intrapersonal skills are leadership competencies and behaviors having to do with adapting to stress, goal orientation, and adhering to rules.

True

Leaders often avoid delegation when a task is a desirable one that could generate power or prestige.

True

Norms can be imported from an organization existing outside a team.

True

Organizational goals are most likely to be achieved if there is commitment at both the top and the bottom of the organization.

True

Researchers at the University of Michigan considered job-centered and employee-centered behaviors to be at opposite ends of a single continuum of leadership behavior.

True

Setting easy goals rarely leads to high levels of performance.

True

Some supervisors hesitate to use positive feedback because they believe subordinates may see it as politically manipulative, ingratiating, or insincere.

True

The Leadership Pipeline provides a useful framework for thinking about how leadership competencies change as people are promoted through organizations.

True

The context and style of leaders' behavior are also factors that affect their ability to build teams and get results through others.

True

The three components of community leadership include mobilization, framing. and building social capital.

True

Walker and Smither reported that managers who shared their 360-degree feedback results with their followers and worked on an action plan to improve their ratings had a dramatic improvement in others' ratings over a five-year period.

True

With role ambiguity, the problem is lack of clarity about just what the expectations are

True

In_______ superiors, peers. and direct reports provide ratings on the extent to which target individuals demonstrate too much, just the right amount, or too little strategic. operations, enabling, or forcing leadership behavior for a particular position

a leadership versatility approach

Work facilitation behaviors are concerned with

acquiring and allocating resources.

Which of the following would least likely improve a leader's feedback skills?

being critical

In the context of the developmental stages of groups, which of the following is a characteristic of the norming stage?

clear emergence of a leader

In the context of group size, which of the following defines subgroups of individuals who often share the same goals, values, and expectations?

cliques

The Leadership Grid profiles leader behavior on two dimensions, which are

concern for people and concern for production.

In the context of group roles, which of the following is an example of dysfunctional role?

dominating

Mobilization is best described as

engaging a critical mass to take action to achieve a specific outcome or set of outcomes.

According to Peterson and Hicks, which of the follawing is the first step in informal coaching?

establishing a relationship based on trust

Which of the following is a possible solution for groupthink?

establishing an independent subgroup to make recommendations

The sum of the forces that attract members to a group, provide resistance to leaving it, and motivate them to be active in it is called

group cohesion.

Which of the following terms refers to how much a leader emphasizes meeting work goals and accomplishing tasks?

initiating structure

In the context of group roles, which of the following occus when someone receives inconsistent signals from several others about expected behavior?

intersender role conflict

Building social capital

is the leadership competency of developing and maintaining relationships that allow people to work together.

Goal emphasis and work facilitation are dimensions of leadership behavior.

job centered

In the context of the nature of groups, are the informal rules groups adopt to regulate and regularize group members' behaviors.

norms

In the context of group cohesion, which of the following occurs when illegal actions are taken by overly zealous and loyal subordinates who believe that what they are doing will please their leaders?

ollieism

Functional, interdependent roles that are focused on the performance of group tasks are characteristic of which stage of group development?

performing

When giving performance feedback privately to a subordinate, what should a leader most likely emphasize?

positive behaviors and results

The inefficiencies created by more and more people working together are called

process losses.

Molly, a member of a product development team, is most likely experiencing if she wonders, "Just what am I supposed to be doing?"

role ambiguity

What should a coach most likely do to help a follower stick to a development plan?

schedule regular reflection sessions

In the context of group size, which of the following is a phenomenon in which working in the presence of others increases effort or productivity?

social facilitation

Which of the following is a term that refers to the phenomenon of reduced effort by people when they are not individually accountable for their work?

social loafing

In the context of the developmental stages of groups, which of the following stages is characterized by intragroup conflict, heightened emotional levels, and status differentiation?

storming

In the context of delegation, a common reason why a leader avoids delegating a task is that the

task is a source of power or prestige.

In the ---- 10-15 superiors, peers, and direct reports are asked to share a target individual's strengths and areas of improvement as a leader in phone or face-to- face interviews.

verbal 360-degree technique