MGMT 433 Quiz 2

Which of the following statements about the rational and emotional aspects of leadership is most likely false?

Effective leadership involves actions based exclusively on reason and logic.

The roots of the Great Man theory can be traced back to the early 1900s, when many leadership researchers and the popular press maintained that leaders and followers were essentially the same.

False

What is a frequent lesson learned by both men and women from their career experiences?

Handling political situations

Leaders tend to have higher extroversion scores than nonleaders.

True

Leadership is a complex phenomenon involving the leader, the followers, and the situation.

True

Personality traits, values, and intelligence must be inferred from behavior

True

Research has shown that openness to experience is particularly important at higher organizational levels and for success in overseas assignments.

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 primary role of leaders is not so much to be creative themselves as to build an environment where others can be creative

True

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

Natural characteristics or talents can offer certain leadership advantages or disadvantages.

In general, researchers have reported that subordinates are more satisfied when leaders ________.

exhibit a high level of consideration

Leaders lower in neuroticism tend to ________.

hide their emotions

A situation in which one's expectations or predictions help determine the very results predicted is referred to as ________.

self-fulfilling prophecy

Leadership is most associated with ________.

vision

In perception, which term refers to the process of assigning underlying causes to behaviors?

Attribution

Which of the following statements about common sense is most likely true?

A challenge of leadership is to know when common sense applies and when it does not

Which term is most often associated with the word management?

Efficiency

A widely respected leader chosen from within an organization tends to receive less latitude in a new leadership position than a newcomer because the well-known leader is expected to understand the needs of the organization.

False

Leaders that rank high in consideration on the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) are more likely to assign reasonable deadlines, establish performance standards, and monitor performance levels.

False

Which statement about in-groups and out-groups is most likely correct?

In-group members are loyal and committed to a leader.

Which of the following statements is most likely true of intelligence?

Intelligence and intelligence testing are extremely controversial topics in the social sciences today.

Which of the following is a conventional distinction that is made between managers and leaders?

Managers maintain, while leaders develop.

Adequate organization performance is possible through balancing the necessity to get work out while maintaining morale of people at a satisfactory level. In the context of the Leadership Grid, what leadership orientation does this statement signify?

Middle-of-the-road management

"People like to have some sense of control over their work. Micro-managing staff will help to either create yea-sayers or cause people to mentally disengage from work." Which creativity killer does this statement exemplify?

Taking away all discretion and autonomy

Which of the following best defines leadership?

The process of influencing an organized group toward accomplishing its goals

The interactional framework for analyzing leadership includes ________.

a. followers, leaders, and situations

The two dimensions of the Leadership Grid are ________.

concern for people and concern for production

The leadership dimensions that were identified by the Ohio State studies are ________.

consideration and initiating structure

Goal emphasis and work facilitation are ________ leadership behavior dimensions.

job-centered

The process by which an older and more experienced person helps to socialize and encourage younger organizational colleagues is called ________.

mentoring