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