Leadership Midterm Exam Ch 1-7

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

Followers are generally more satisfied with them rather than leaders with average levels of technical competence

Which of the following statements is true about coercive power?

It has the possibility to be used by followers to influence their leader's behavior

Which of the following statements is true of legitimate power?

It means that a leader has authority because she or he has been assigned a particular role in an organization

Which of the following statements is true of informal coaching?

It takes place whenever a leader helps followers to change their behaviors

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

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

People in societies exhibiting a large degree of power distance

accept a hierarchical order in which everybody has a place and that needs no further justification

Which of the following is one of the best ways to establish and maintain good peer relationships?

acknowledge common interests and goals

Work facilitation behaviors are concerned with

acquiring and allocating resources

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

action, observation, and reflection

According to the OCEAN model, individuals who appear as insensitive, socially clueless, pessimistic, cold, and grumpy are most likely to score low in

agreeableness

In the context of perception, which of the following terms is best described as the explanations people develop for the characteristics, behaviors, or actions to which they attend?

attribution

According to the Five Factor Model (FFM) or OCEAN model of personality, leaders who score high in openness to experience tend to

be big-picture thinkers

_____ describe leadership situations and are used as vehicles for leadership discussions

case studies

Followers are highly likely to use _____ power to change their leader's behavior if they have a relatively high amount of referent power with their fellow coworkers.

coercive

The ability to control others through the fear of punishment or the loss of valued outcomes is known as

coercive power

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

concern for people and concern for production

According to the Five Factor Model (FFM) or OCEAN model of personality, the dimension of neuroticism is most likely

concerned with how people react to stress, change, failure, or personal criticism

Which of the following terms refers to how friendly and supportive a leader is toward subordinates?

consideration

Which of the following is most likely a benefit of keeping a journal?

documenting ideas for future speeches

Which of the following words is most often associated with the word "management"?

efficiency

Mobilization is best described as

engaging a critical mass to take action to achieve a specific outcome or set of outcomes

Terrorists may call themselves "freedom fighters," and firing someone may be referred to as "letting him or her go." These are both examples of

euphemistic labeling

According to Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership, who among the following presents a consistent picture to both leaders and coworkers of being independent, innovative, and willing to stand up to superiors?

exemplary followers

_____ power is a function of the amount of knowledge one possesses relative to the rest of the members of a group

expert

According to Goleman's conceptualization of emotional intelligence (EQ), the "change catalyst" attribute most likely corresponds to the _____ dimension of the OCEAN model.

extraversion

According to the Five Factor Model (FFM) or OCEAN model of personality, which of the following dimensions primarily involves behaviors that are highly likely to be exhibited in group settings and are generally concerned with getting ahead in life?

extraversion

The interactional framework for analyzing leadership includes

followers, leaders, and situations

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

An authentic leader will most likely

have a realistic self-perception

Dr. Jonathon realizes that his patient is suffering from a highly contagious disease that is likely to pose a threat to the entire city. However, he is uncertain about sharing this information with city officials to protect his patient's privacy. In this scenario, which of the following ethical dilemmas does the doctor most likely face?

individuals versus community

Which of the following refers to one person's actual behaviors designed to change another person's attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviors?

influence tactics

Craig, a high school student, wakes up early on a Sunday morning and makes his mother's favorite chocolate cake and butterscotch cookies. He wants to seek permission for a week-long trekking trip and is sure that the cake and cookies will get his mother in a good mood. This scenario most likely exemplifies

ingratiation

According to Myers and Myers's basic preference dimensions in which people can differ, the thinking-feeling dimension

is concerned with the considerations leaders prefer when making decisions

Goal emphasis and work facilitation are _____ dimensions of leadership behavior.

job-centered

The _____ states that if one simply works hard and achieves superior results, then good things will happen.

just world hypothesis

Which of the following best describes attribution of blame?

justifying immoral behavior by claiming it was caused by someone else's actions

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)

Legitimizing tactics most likely occur when agents

make requests based on their position or authority

"I remain calm in pressure situations." This statement most likely corresponds to which of the following OCEAN personality dimensions?

neuroticism

Which of the following best describes ethics?

principles of right conduct

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

According to Patricia O'Connell's webs of belief, which of the following webs of belief is associated with respecting and caring for all creation, and honoring the needs and identities of everyone in every culture?

reverence

Unlike consultation, coalition tactics are most likely used when agents

seek the aid or support of others to influence their targets

Which of the following terms describes a kind of learning between an individual and the environment in which learners seek relatively little feedback that may significantly confront their fundamental ideas or actions?

single-loop learning

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

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

technical expertise plays a key role in supervisors' performance appraisal ratings of subordinates

In the context of Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, leaders and followers who possess high levels of analytic intelligence

tend to be quick learners and do well in school

According to Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, creative intelligence is

the ability to produce work that is both novel and useful

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

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

the difference between portable and nonportable skills

In the context of the new leader onboarding road map, which of the following steps most likely involves gathering benchmarking information from other organizations, meeting with key external customers and suppliers, and if appropriate, meeting with the former team leader?

the first two months

Which of the following generation of workers tends to be technologically savvy, independent, and skeptical of institutions and hierarchy?

the gen xers

When building a development plan, one's career objective comes directly from

the goals quadrant of the GAPS analysis

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

In the context of the first day on the job, identify a true statement about the first meeting of the new leaders with their new bosses.

the meeting should end by arranging a follow-up meeting to review progress

_____ occurs when people's expectations or predictions play a causal role in bringing about the events they predict

the self-fulfilling prophecy

Which of the following is a phenomenon that refers to situations in which people feel themselves at risk of being judged by others holding negative images about them?

the stereotype threat

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

they are rarely committed to their group's work goals

Identify a true statement about leadership skills according to Hogan and Warrenfelz's four major categories of skills and behaviors found in virtually every organizational competency model.

they are skills and behaviors concerned with building teams and getting results through others

According to Zemke's four generations of workers, which of the following statements is most likely true of the Veterans?

they represent a wealth of lore and wisdom

Identify a true statement about passive followers according to Robert Kelley's basic styles of followership.

they require constant direction because they lack initiative and a sense of responsibility

Task forces that are formed to work on key change initiatives should be staffed by stars because

this will improve the odds of good recommendations being made

What is Hollander's approach to leadership called?

transactional leadership

Leadership behavior enacted by individuals who take action to maintain ethical standards in the face of questionable moral behaviors by higher-ups is referred to as

upward ethical leadership

What are the four qualities of leadership that engender trust according to Bennis and Goldsmith?

vision, empathy, consistency, and integrity

Hall and Donnell reported findings of five separate studies involving over 12,000 managers that explored the relationship between managerial achievement and attitudes toward subordinates. Overall, they found that managers who strongly subscribed to Theory X beliefs

were highly likely to be in their lower-achieving group

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