Leadership Final
The interactive social character emphasize stability, organizational loyalty and autonomy.
False.
For leaders, McGrath's critical leadership functions include which types of group? (Select all that apply.)
Forecasting environmental changes Preventing deleterious changers diagnosing group deficiences
According to the House, which option is not one of the specific types of behaviors commonly exhibited by charismatic leaders?
Giving structure to complex tasks.
What factor(s) contribute to leadership effectiveness and rise of female leaders? (Select all that apply.)
Greater negotiation power than women Effectiveness and predominance of women owned businesses Organizational culture is changing
Which are the key elements of a productive person when considering personality types? (Select all that apply.
Guided by reason Active or proactive Understands his/her own situation
Which of the following psychological attributes is not part of the Luthans and Avollo's model of authentic leadership?
Humility
Transformational leadership does what
Increases the motivation and morality of followers Helps followers reach their full potential Creates connection between leaders and followers ALL OF THE ABOVE
Select all options that accurately complete this sentence: According to the psychodynamic approach
Insight into one's own personality is beneficial Learned patterns of family dynamics influence leadership
Select all the options that represent types of leadership decisions
Internal or external Task or relational Monitor or take action
Why is the psychodynamic approach is criticized? (Select all that apply.)
It focuses primarily on personalities of leaders and followers It does not lend itself to traditional training It is based on the psychology of the abnormal
Select all of the options that correctly characterize transformational leadership
It results in performance that goes well beyond what is expected It helps followers to transcend their own self-interests for the good of the group.
Select all the options that represent items included in the category of internal relational leadership actions.
Managing conflict and power issues Collaborating-including, involving Satisfying individual member needs Building commitment NOT NETWORKING
McGrath describes diagnosing group deficiences as part of
Monitoring/Internal
According to the text, which is the most productive of Freud's personality types? (Select all that apply.)
Narcissist Obsessive Erotic
Which of the following leadership traits or skills is more likely to belong to men than women? (Select all that apply.)
None of these
According to Maccoby, how has followership changed in recent times?
Parental models of authority have decreased in importance
Team effectiveness is evaluated on which desired team outcomes?
Performance and development
Which of the following is not a component of Terry's action wheel?
Skill Set
Select the options that correctly complete this sentence: House notes that effects of charismatic leadership are more likely to occur in
Stressful situations
Kouzes and Poshner's five practices that enable leaders to accomplish extraordinary things include all of these except.
Support contingent reward
Charismatic leadership transforms followers' self-concepts and tries to link the identity of the followers to the collective identity of the organization
True
Childhood and adolescent experiences are reflected in paternalistic patterns of leadership and management.
True
Current research on groups focuses more on team variables, rather than focusing exclusively on outcomes of team performance.
True
Effective team leaders need to have a wide repertoire of skills
True
Flatter organizations refer to the trend of shifting decision-making powers downward in the organizational hierarchy.
True
Laissez-faire leadership represents the absence of leadership.
True
Leader effectiveness should be assessed, along with team effectiveness in the team leadership model
True
Meta-analysis shows that female and male leaders have many similarities.
True
Networking and advocating are examples of external team leadership actions
True
Psychodynamic theory focuses heavily on the personal awareness of the leader.
True
Research data suggests the "glass ceiling" is beginning to crack
True
Self-discipline is a dimension of authentic leadership in George's model.
True
Team goals needs to be very clear
True
Team leadership capacity includes shared leadership and encompasses the entire team
True
Teams with distributed leadership have some advantages over single leader teams
True
The Team Leadership Model provides the leader or a designated team member with a mental road map to diagnose team problems
True
The child ego state includes thinking, feeling, and behaving as one did as a child.
True
The functional perspective on group leadership contends that the leader has a special responsibility for group effectiveness
True
The life story of the leader is an important part of developing authenticity, according to Shamir and Elam.
True
The psychodynamic approach has its roots in the work of Freud and Jung.
True
The research on female and male leadership has generally tended to focus on establishing differences between women and men.
True
There is no single, accepted definition of authentic leadership
True
Transactional leadership focuses on the exchanges that occur between leaders and their followers.
True
Transactional leadership refers to the bulk of leadership models.
True
Transformational leadership views leaders as social architects.
True
When both genders use an autocratic, directive leadership style, females are evaluated differently than men.
True
Women are less likely than men to negotiate for what they want.
True
What did research on transformational leadership find? (Select all that apply.
Women's styles tend to be more transformational than men's All four components of transformational leadership are positive related to leadership effectiveness Women tend to engage in more contingent reward behavior than men.
The interpersonal definition of authentic leadership views leadership as
adapting to the beliefs and values of followers.
Social character is a way of looking at leadership
as being created within a social community
The developmental definition of authentic leadership states that leadership
grow out of the leader's self-awareness and morality
The intrapersonal definition of authentic leadership states that leadership
grows out of the life story of the leader
Which option best describes the elements of a model of transformational leadership?
idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, individualized consideration
Women are stereotyped with agentic characteristics
False
In team leadership theory, two of the leader's primary decisions are
To monitor and take action
The early research on authentic leadership grew out of an underdeveloped area of which branch of leadership studies?
Transformational leadership
A criticism of transformational leadership is that it treats leadership as a personality trait.
True
A mistake commonly made is to call a work group a "team" but treat it as a collection of individuals.
True
A personal trauma that leads a person to becoming an authentic leader is known as a trigger event.
True
A strength of the psychodynamic approach is that it discourages manipulative techniques in leadership.
True
A strength of the transformational model as its emphasis on followers' needs, values, and morals.
True
According to Bass, charisma is a necessary but not sufficient condition for transformational leadership
True
According to Shamir and Elam, an individual needs to be seen as a legitimate leader by his or her followers in order to become an authentic leader.
True
According to team leadership theory, individuals other than the formal leader can perform the critical leadership functions.
True
According to the Authentic Action Wheel, if employees make comments such as, "What are we doing this for?" or, "The founder of this company would be rolling in his grave right now," their concerns would be diagnosed as a problem related to meaning.
True
According to the psychodynamic approach, it is quite important for leaders to understand personality types.
True
An underlying assumption of the psychodynamic approach is that a person's behavior results from the entire emotional residue of prior experience.
True
Charismatic leadership is often described in ways that make it similar to, if not synonymous with transformational leadership.
True
The emergence of a vision should originate only from the leader, not the followers within the organization.
False
According to Berne's theory, the leader who acts like a parent is likely to get which state(s) in reaction? (Select all that apply.)
Child
According to Zaccaro, principled leadership influences team effectiveness through which of the following processes?
Cognitive, motivational, affective and integrative
Management by exception involves
Correcting misbehavior of employees
Important concepts in transactional analysis include all of the following, except which one?
Corrective transactions
Which of the following is not a part of Walumbwa and associates' model of authentic leadership?
Courage
The first step in using the Authentic Action Wheel is to identify the organization's mission
False
The interpersonal perspective of authentic leadership emphasizes balanced processing and relational transparency.
False
The research on authentic leadership is well-developed
False
Transactional analysis only focuses on the individual.
False
Select all the options that are characteristics of team effectiveness
External support Unified commitment Collaborative climate Results-driven structure
A parent-child comment by the leader is likely to cause a parent to parent comment from the subordinate.
False
A subordinate who acts in a dependent manner expects the leader to act from his or her child ego state
False
According to George's Authentic Leadership Model, strong relationships with followers lead to compassion for those in need.
False
According to the interpersonal perspective, the central tasks of authentic leaders are to express strong values and consistently promote their vision for an organization
False
Bass and avolio suggest that tranformational leadership cannot be taught, since it results from innate leadership characteristics
False
Current focus has shifted to the study of group dynamics and development of social science theory.
False
If team goals are unclear, an internal relational intervention is needed to focus on building commitment.
False
In the Authentic Action Wheel, items such as people, capital, information and time belong to the category of "Power."
False
In the parent ego state, thoughts, feelings and behaviors are a result of current happenings.
False
In virtual teams, task functions are more critical than in traditional, face-to-face teams
False
Most experts agree that team leadership is a single process
False
Pseudo-transformational leadership could be described as a form of socialized leadership.
False
Relational transparency refers to soliciting viewpoints from those who disagree with you and giving them fair consideration.
False
Research shows that male leaders tend to have better developed social skills than female leaders.
False
Ryan White was more of a transactional leader than a transformational leader
False
Self-regulation and self-concept are dimensions of the developmental definition of leadership.
False
Terry's authentic leadership approach focuses on the characteristics of authentic leaders.
False
The adapted child is a person who acts and feels like an uninhibited and unsocialized child.
False
What is the "velvet ghetto"?
The field of human-resource management
In the area of human capital differences, select all the options that describe women's situation:
They occupy more than half of all management and professional positions They confront great barriers to establish mentor relationships They have fewer responsibilities int the same jobs as men
Criticisms of transformational leadership are that it is elitist and antidemocratic, and that it suffers from heroic leadership bias.
true
