Mgmt 4320
The managerial grid developed by Robert Blake and Jane Mouton has ______ possible combinations.
81
Which of the following traits are found in charismatic leaders?
Adventurism Optimism Commitment
Identify the areas through which charismatic leaders motivate their followers.
Affiliation Power Achievement
Which of the following social and psychological factors influence the leadership process?
Anxiety Confusion
Identify a true statement about leadership.
Both external circumstances and internal qualities are important for leadership.
What causes a general decline in the level of trust that American employees have in their leaders?
Breakdown of a traditional family structure Decline of a wide range of social structures Influential leaders putting self-interest over public welfare, repeatedly Lack of shared values and a sense of community
How do leaders influence employees' behavior?
By their ideas and acts
Identify an essential ingredient necessary for successful leadership.
Care
Identify an aspect of caring leadership.
Commitment to a task
According to Stuart Levine and Michael Crom, identify the principles of trust for leadership effectiveness that leaders should follow.
Consider employees' perspectives. Try to keep the promises made to employees. Listen to understand employees. Put their expectations across to employees. Care about employees.
Match the following types of thinking (in the left column) to their accurate explanations (in the right column).
Convergent thinking matches Choice, Where there is one right answer Divergent thinking matches Choice, Where there are many right answers
What are the qualities that are common to both effective leaders and followers and are necessary for organizational success?
Critical thinking High involvement
Identify the functions of management that are used to describe leadership.
Directing Organizing Planning
Match leadership styles (in the left column) to the level of freedom they offer to employees (in the right column).
Directive style matches Choice, Maximum use of authority by leaders Participative style matches Choice, Leaders and their followers share decision making Free-rein style matches Choice, Maximum area of freedom of followers
What should leaders ask themselves to check their level of vitality?
Do I have the required energy for the tasks of leadership?
Match the Michigan studies' dimensions of leadership behavior (in the left column) with the dimensions identified by Ralph Stogdill in his questionnaire (in the right column).
Employee-centered matches Choice, Showing consideration Job-centered matches Choice, Initiating structure
Identify a statement that summarizes the changing perception of leadership today.
Every individual with potential to make a difference has the challenge and responsibility of leadership.
Match the most-cited places from where people say they learn to lead (in the left column) with their examples
Experience matches Choice, Stella, a doctor, developed her leadership skills during her arduous internship at a camp in Uganda. Books and school matches Choice, James, a law graduate, has enrolled for a week-long course on corporate tax laws. Examples and models matches Choice, Kelly, a political science student, follows the ideologies put forth by Bella Abzug, a leader of the women's rights movement in the 70s.
Arrange from highest to lowest, the most-cited places from where people say they learn to lead.
Experience Examples Books and schools
Identify the derailment patterns of a leader.
Failure to build positive relationships with co-workers Inability to build and lead a team Inability to adapt to changing situations, followers, and bosses
True or false: A leader of a small organization functions either as a salesperson or as a production manager.
False
True or false: According to Margot Morrell, a successful leader seldom executes the four leadership behaviors of Ernest Shackleton.
False
True or false: All types of leaders will need the same interests, values, and skills.
False
True or false: The greater the sense of urgency, the more effective is employee-centered as opposed to leader-centered decision making.
False
True or false: The importance of leadership is witnessed only in government.
False
Identify a satisfaction that leaders typically experience.
Gaining respect and status from others
Match the following types of leaders (on the left-hand side) to their appropriate deeds (on the right-hand side).
Heroes matches Choice, Noble works Rulers matches Choice, Dominate others
What is integrity understood as?
Honesty Courage Strength of character
Match the characteristics of negative leadership (in the left column) to their explanations (in the right column).
Incompetence matches Choice, Lack of will and/or skill to sustain effective action Rigidity matches Choice, Lack of openness to new ideas and new information Intemperance matches Choice, Lack of self-control in personal habits and conduct Callousness matches Choice, Lack of a caring attitude toward the needs of other people Corruption matches Choice, Putting self-interest ahead of public interest and the willingness to lie, cheat, or steal Cruelty matches Choice, Committing atrocities that inflict physical and/or emotional pain on others
Match the following dimensions of Ralph Stogdill's Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (on the left-hand side) to the types of leaders' behaviors associated with them (on the right-hand side).
Initiating structure matches Choice, Leaders' actions that define their relationship with their staff Showing consideration matches Choice, Leaders' actions that foster trust, respect, and friendship with subordinates
What are the common qualities possessed by effective leaders and followers?
Integrity Ability Commitment
Identify a behavior assessment instrument developed by Ralph Stogdill and others at Ohio State University.
Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ)
Identify the leadership behaviors of Ernest Shackleton as mentioned by Margot Morrell in her book.
Leading by example Maintaining a positive attitude Communicating a vision Keeping up morale
According to leadership scholar James MacGregor Burns, what are the requirements for leadership?
Personal ambition Social opportunity
Identify a leadership characteristic responsible for effective leadership according to the contingency theory.
Personal values
Match the following processes of management (on the left-hand side) to their respective leadership functions (on the right-hand side).
Planning matches Choice, Establishing a direction Organizing matches Choice, Aligning people and resources Directing matches Choice, Energizing employees to attain goals
Which of the following factors helps a leader to develop a team, set the right targets, and achieve high-performance results?
Relevant expertise
What are the important characteristics of followers that affect the leadership process?
Respect for authority Interpersonal trust
Identify the characteristics of charismatic leaders.
Self-confidence Dominance Ambition
Match John Gardner's conditions that are required for experiencing a true community (in the left column) to their correct description (in the right column).
Shared vision matches Choice, Direction and motivation is provided for members of a healthy community through positive and future-focused role images. Wholeness incorporating diversity matches Choice, If fragmentation or divisiveness exists, a group is considered less of a community Consideration and trust matches Choice, An atmosphere of faith and confidence is fostered in a healthy community, and it also cares about its members.
Which of the following leadership behaviors negatively affect an employee?
Showing disrespect Being insensitive
are those leaders who are also known as rule breakers.
Teachers
According to the managerial grid, who among the following types of managers is more concerned about people than task accomplishment?
The Country Club Manager
Which of the following has a formative place in history?
The initiatives of leaders
Which of the following factors determine the force of an action or idea of a leader?
The leader's capability of attracting talented people with specialized skills The leader's intelligence style The leader's ability to create an environment that delivers high-performance work
Match the key areas for successful leadership (in the left column) with their respective descriptions
The leadership equation matches Choice, Understanding leadership qualities, followers' characteristics, and situations The power of vision matches Choice, Setting up specific directions and plans to succeed The empowerment of people matches Choice, Encouraging participative leadership to develop a high-performance culture Leadership principles matches Choice, Managing morale and exhibiting human relations skills
Which of the following approaches to leadership did Sir Francis Galton mention for the first time in his book Hereditary Genius?
The trait approach
Identify the characteristics of derailed leaders.
They are overly ambitious. They bully their employees. They betray personal trust. They overmanange.
Identify a frustration that leaders typically experience.
They devote more hours to work than nonleaders.
What tactics do leaders employ to deal with organizational politics?
They form alliances and coalitions.
Which of the following characteristics are demonstrated by charismatic leaders?
They inspire their employees to adopt particular beliefs and values.
Identify the true statements of good leaders.
They must consider others' interests first, when possible. They must possess selflessness.
Which of the following statements is true of the effects of negative leadership behaviors?
They reduce employees' performance and morale.
Identify a true statement about leaders.
They teach people job skills.
Identify the requirements through which people can be equipped for leadership roles at all responsibility levels.
Training Encouragement Proper selection
Identify a leadership theory that Paul von Hindenburg used for selecting and developing leaders.
Trait theory
True or false: An important trait of a leader is genuine enthusiasm.
True
What are the characteristics of people who are led easily?
Trusting
Identify the key areas of leadership that a successful leader should master.
Using personal humility to achieve organizational success Understanding leadership qualities Leading employees by moral principles
What causes leaders to accept the duties of leadership?
Vision
What causes employees to lose respect for their leaders?
When their leaders constantly rely on others while giving guidance When their leaders constantly rely on others to make decisions When their leaders' knowledge of the job is not up-to-date
How should a leader treat his or her employees?
With concern
Today, leadership is viewed as
an empowering, participatory model
Leaders cannot develop empathy for their employees if they
are preoccupied emotionally with their own personal problems
As part of their study on leadership behavior, Kurt Lewin and his associates trained graduate assistants in the three different leadership styles known as BLANK, BLANK, and laissez-faire.
autocratic democratic
Intelligence is concerned with the ______ ability of an individual.
cognitive
According to the study conducted by Kurt Lewin, the ______ style of leadership is more advantageous for group performance than the other styles.
democratic
Persistence refers to a leader's
determination to see tough tasks through to completion
A leader from a large organization
devotes efforts primarily to the organization's public image
The leadership style that encourages leader-centered decision making is known as the
directive style
A leader who is callous is said to
discount the needs of others
A leader's judgment and objectivity is questioned when he or she
displays emotional instability
If employees know that their leader cares about them, they will
ensure that they do all that is expected from them
A form of persuasiveness that causes others to become interested and willing to accept the leaders' initiatives is known as
enthusiasm
According to Sir Francis Galton, leadership qualities refer to a(n)
family's genetic characteristics
The Status Quo Manager is
focused on moderate work requirements and has moderate concerns for people's needs
In the past, leaders at the workplace used to be taskmasters who
forced employees to obey or face the consequences
Leaders are said to be charismatic if they
get others to follow them by generating interest
According to the behavioral leadership model developed by Robert Blake and Jane Mouton, the ideal leader is the one who is
highly concerned about production and people
A vision enables a leader to
identify what needs to be done
The "great man theory" attributes leadership to
individuals
Effective leadership means
initiating and guiding others to bring about change
People believe that success in their own time and in their own culture is enabled by
intelligence
The two dimensions of leadership behavior identified by the leadership studies started by the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center under the direction of Rensis Likert are
job-centered and employee-centered
Ability, as a quality of leadership, means a leader should
know the job
Leadership as a social phenomenon has found support through the fact that throughout history,
male leaders significantly outnumbered female leaders
In order to achieve organizational goals, modern managers
motivate employees to perform in the best way
One of the attributes of a charismatic individual is to
motivate others to be loyal by inspiring them
For effective leadership, leaders' deeds and ideas should satisfy the ______ of the followers in a specific situation.
needs and expectations
In terms of the quality of persistence, leaders should ask themselves if they
possess the self-drive to overcome adversity even when others lose their will
One of the two important elements in the leadership equation is an individual's
qualities
If a leader remains calm and acts intelligently under pressure, it means that he or she is
self-confident
The leadership contingency theory assumes that
situational factors determine the appropriate leadership qualities and actions
One of the qualities that is important for leaders to be successful is
stamina
Leadership effectiveness is in direct proportion to the leader's
strength of commitment
Leaders, after finding that their employees are missing deadlines or deviating from standard practices, should
talk to their employees and ask them what is happening
Self-confidence is defined as
the belief in one's own ability to overcome difficult tasks
Integrity, in a leader, leads to
trust
The fact that an individual may be an effective leader in one situation and may not be in another can be explained when leadership is
viewed as a social phenomenon
According to Paul von Hindenburg, one of the two basic qualities that determine leadership ability is
vitality
