Apply Quiz-Week 1

Why do followers most likely need to have a high level of technical competence?

**NOT Technical competence increases a follower's channel power and situational control.

Which of the following statements is true about building effective relationships with superiors?

Followers should think of their own and their superior's success as interdependent.

Which of the following statements is true of a gaps-of-the-GAPS (goals, abilities, perceptions, standards) analysis?

It helps leadership practitioners identify high-priority development needs.

Which statement is most likely true about followers having a good working relationship with their superiors?

Superiors and followers with good relationships tend to experience less conflict.

Simone, a senior sales manager at ReadMe Inc., cares about developing the skills of her teammates and works beside them as a role model. In the context of the five fundamental archetypes of leadership, she most likely belongs to the

Teacher-Mentor archetype.

Which of the following fundamental archetypes of leadership is most likely to take risks and action in a crisis?

The Warrior-Knight archetype

According to Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership, which of the following statements is true about pragmatist followers?

They are mediocre performers.

Leadership development is enhanced when an experience involves three processes, which are

action, observation, and reflection.

According to Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership, _____ are the "yes people" of organizations and are very active at doing their organization's work.

conformist followers

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

cooperative.

Which of the following is most likely an outcome of regularly practicing a 10 percent stretch?

decreasing apprehensions about doing something new or different

Which of the following involves a willingness to confront your own views and an invitation to others to do so, too?

double-loop learning

When a team has fewer than 15 people, what should new leaders do during the first two weeks?

meet individually with everyone on the team

A personal relationship in which a more experienced mentor (usually someone two to four levels higher in an organization) acts as a guide, role model, and sponsor of a less experienced protégé is known as

mentoring.

Jonathan, a front desk executive at Read Books Inc., handled 40 customer calls per day. He was then sent to a training program last month to improve his communication skills, which cost the organization $500. This month, Read Books observes that his growth is positive and substantial and that he is able to handle 60 customer calls per day. His productivity has increased by $700. This scenario most likely exemplifies

return on investment.

Technical competence is especially important for first-line supervisors because they

spend considerable time training their followers.

Observing "with binoculars" involves

stepping back from a situation.

People who are observing an action are much more likely than the actor to make the fundamental attribution error. This is called

the actor/observer difference.

In survey research by Judith Rosener that identified several differences in how men and women described their leadership experiences, it was found that

women helped subordinates develop commitment to broader goals than their own self-interest.

Which of the following definitions of leadership is fairly comprehensive and helpful?

the process of influencing an organized group toward accomplishing its goals

In the context of the new leader onboarding road map, which of the following statements is true of new leaders in the first two weeks?

They should schedule one-on-one meetings with all their peers in peers' offices.

What is Hollander's approach to leadership called?

transactional approach

Most early research on leadership was based on the assumption that leadership is a general personal trait expressed independently of the situation in which the leadership is manifested. This view is commonly known as

the heroic theory.

Which of the following statements is true of individuals with high levels of technical competence?

They are highly likely to be delegated tasks.

Unlike the role approach, the constructionist approach

views leadership as combined acts of leading and following by different individuals.