Leadership

_____ is an effort to attain objectives by attacking or hurting others.

Aggression

Which of the following is most likely an example of a noncontingent reward?

Annual Salary

Stress has only negative implications on an individual's health and work.

False

Which of the following is not a macro psychological component that underlies empowerment?

Influence

The _____ asked leaders to indicate the extent to which they believed different consideration and initiating behaviors were important to leadership success.

Leadership Opinion Questionnaire (LOQ)

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

The degree to which someone tells others something and ensures that they understand what was said is called

communication effectiveness.

_____ use a graphic approach to depict systematically the root causes of a problem, the relationships between different causes, and potentially a prioritization of which causes are most important.

Cause-and-effect diagrams

In the context of factors affecting motivation at work, which of the following statements is true of empowerment?

Delegating leadership and decision making down to the lowest level possible is a component of empowerment.

Which of the following statements is true about force field analysis?

It is used to depict a stable situation as an equilibrium.

Which of the following statements is most likely true about defensiveness?

It occurs when someone feels threatened.

In the context of factors that affect worker motivation, which of the following is a macro psychological component that underlies empowerment?

Learning

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

The difference between portable and nonportable skills.

Which of the following statements is true about leaders who are in the first quadrant of the credibility matrix?

They have a high level of trust and a high level of expertise.

Which of the following statements is true about assertive people?

They take responsibility for what they say.

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

Executive presence is, in general, concerned with a person's ability to radiate confidence, poise, and authority.

True

In a procedure called nominal group technique (NGT), group members write down their ideas on individual slips of paper, which are later transferred to a whiteboard or flipchart for the entire group to work with.

True

Which of the following involves making judgments about the adequacy of behavior with respect to certain criteria such as work group or organizational goals?

Effectiveness

A force field analysis is an idea-generating activity conducted in a group setting to enhance the creative potential of any group trying to solve a problem.

False

According to Daniel Pink, mastery involves being involved in something bigger than oneself.

False

According to Daniel Pink, rewards and punishment are unhelpful in motivating employees doing routine, assembly line work but work well when it comes to performing complex tasks or creating new products.

False

According to research, a strong correlation exists between the amount of money an organization spends on motivational programs and motivational speakers and its revenues, profitability, and market share.

False

According to the Leadership Grid, authoritarian leaders are most likely to have a positive impact on their subordinates' job performance, organizational commitment, and intentions to stay.

False

Credibility is made up of three components, which are expertise, commitment, and relationships.

False

In the context of approaches to motivation, an empowered worker will have fewer choices in how and when to accomplish high work demands and as such will suffer from more stress than will an unempowered worker.

False

Informal, personal communication is enhanced when leaders communicate across their desks to followers.

False

Leader support is a job-centered dimension of behavior and is similar to the initiating structure dimension of the various Ohio State questionnaires.

False

Leaders in the second quadrant of the credibility matrix are most likely people who have joined the company from an entirely different industry.

False

Organizational citizenship behaviors can be defined as those behaviors that are directly related to a person's job but not helpful to others at work.

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

Performance differs from effectiveness in that performance generally involves making judgments about the adequacy of behavior with respect to certain criteria such as work group or organizational goals.

False

The best listeners are passive listeners because they do not interrupt the speaker.

False

The first stage of problem solving is to analyze the causes of a problem.

False

Which statement about empowerment and the operant approach is most likely true?

False

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

Framing

Leaders are likely to encourage creativity in their organizations by delegating authority and empowering followers to take risks.

True

Motivation, learning, and stress are the three macro psychological components of empowerment.

True

Research on 360-degree feedback shows that those individuals who work for superiors receiving above-average ratings from others were more likely to receive above-average ratings themselves.

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

The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ)-XII assesses behaviors such as being able to tolerate uncertainty and acting as a representative for a group.

True

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

True

The concept of motivation helps explain differences seen among people in terms of the energy and direction of their behavior.

True

The last stage in the systems view of communication is the interpretation of the message by the receiver.

True

Work facilitation behaviors are concerned with

acquiring and allocating resources.

According to Daniel Pink, autonomy refers to

being able to make choices.

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

concern for people and concern for production.

Community leaders are most likely to

have fewer resources than most other leaders.

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

initiating structure

One limitation of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is that it fails to

make specific predictions on what an individual will do to satisfy a particular need.