MGMT 478 chapter 1

According to Mintzberg's managerial roles, signing official documents is the activity of a person who is in what role?

Figurehead Role

Leaders perform the ____ role when they represent the organization or department in legal, social, ceremonial, and symbolic activities.

Figurehead Role

A successful sales manager was promoted to being CEO of a large conglomerate. Shortly afterward, the manager decided that her style of leadership was inappropriate, and altered the way that she practiced leading. This is an example of:

From the Management to the leadership theory paradigm

The ____ level of analysis can also be called the dyadic process.

Individual

The individual level of analysis of leadership theory focuses on the individual leader and the relationship with:

Individual followers

The three levels of analysis of leadership theory include all of the following EXCEPT:

Individual, Group, and Organizational.

____ is the process of a leader communicating ideas, gaining acceptance of them, and motivating followers to support and implement the ideas through change.

Influencing

Which of the following is a managerial role category?

Interpersonal Roles, Informational Roles, Decisional Roles

A leadership theory:

Is an explanation of some aspect of leadership; theories have practical value because they are used to better understand, predict, and control successful leadership.

Contingency leadership theories attempt to explain the appropriate leadership style based on the:

Leader, followers, and situation.

Which of the following is an example of a spokesperson role?

Leaders perform the spokesperson role when they provide information to the people outside of their organizational unit. People must report information to their boss and other departments, customers, suppliers, and so forth.

The key elements in the definition of leadership include all of the following EXCEPT:

Leaders-followers, Influence, Organizational objectives, people, and change

In your position, you serve on committees with people from outside of your organizational units and attend professional meetings. These are expectations for Mintzberg's interpersonal role of ____.

Liaison Role

To be a successful leader, you need three managerial leadership skills, one of which is ____ skill, which involves the ability to use methods and techniques to perform a task.

Technical

Which of the following is NOT one of Mintzberg's interpersonal leadership roles?

The Interpersonal Roles are Leader, Figurehead, and Liasion

Evidence-based management (EBM) is an application of:

The findings of empirical research to the practice of leadership

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the levels of analysis of leadership theory?

The individual level does not impact the group level

The leader-follower relationship represents the influence:

The leader and the follower

One of the most common criticisms of management education is the tendency to:

The tendency to focus on teaching of theory but not on the application of theory to practice.

In examining differences between managers and leaders, leaders

Emphasize innovation and change

Your leader has asked you to design a new performance evaluation system. Designing the system is an example of which of Mintzberg's managerial roles?

Entrepreneur

The individual level of analysis which focuses on the leader's relationship with individual followers is also called the ____ process.

Dyadic

Which of the following statements regarding leaders and managers is NOT true?

- Managers mean a person who has a formal title and authority. Leaders mean a person who may be either a manager or a nonmanager. - A leader has the ability to influence others; a manager may not. - a leader is not necessarily a person who holds some formal position such as manager.

Henry Mitzberg identified ten managerial roles that he grouped into three categories. These three categories are:

- interpersonal roles, informational roles, decisional roles.

Why study leadership?

-The short answer is that the better you can work with people, the more successful you will be in both your personal and your professional lives. -It also applies directly to your personal life.

Which of the following statements regarding managers and leaders is NOT true?

A manager is formal position of authority. -A leader has the ability to influence others. -Managers focus on doing things right, and leaders focus on doing the right thing. -Managers are concerned with stability and the best way to get the job done, and leaders place greater concern on innovation and change. -Managers must be able to lead through motivating others and creating favorable conditions for success, as well as manage.

Levels of analysis constitute:

A way to classify leadership theory and research is by the three levels of analysis

Mintzberg's ten managerial roles is an example of:

Behavioral leadership

Early leadership studies were based on the assumption that leaders are:

Born, not made.

The ____ leadership theory paradigm emphasizes the importance of situational factors.

Contingency

Taking corrective action when necessary, allocating resources, and negotiating routine and nonroutine transactions are all examples of Mintzberg's __________ managerial role category.

Decisional

Behavioral leadership theories attempt to explain:

Distinctive styles used by effective leaders, or to define the nature of their work.

For Henry Mintzberg, a leader handling a disturbance is illustrative of__________.

Disturbance-Handler Role

Evidence-based management:

Means that decisions and organizational practices are based on the best available scientific evidence.

Which of the following is one of Mintzberg's informational leadership roles?

Monitor Role, Disseminator Role, Spokesperson Role Leaders perform the spokesperson role when they provide information to the people outside of their organizational unit. People must report information to their boss and other departments, customers, suppliers, and so forth.

Successful leaders need these three managerial leadership skills:

Need Technical Skills, interpersonal Skills, and Decision Making Skills

The interrelationship among the levels of leadership analysis is true for all the following

Neither the group nor organizational performance affect individual performance

Evidence-based management (EBM), on which your textbook is based, refers to basing theories and concepts on

Scientific research

Which of the following is an example of a figurehead role?

Signing official documents, entertaining clients or customers, receiving / escorting official visitors, informally talking to people and attending outside meetings as an organizational representative, presiding at meetings and ceremonial events.

Leadership theory classifications include all of the following EXCEPT:

They include: Trait, Behavioral, Contingency, and Integrative theories.

The three levels of analysis of leadership theory are:

Three levels of analysis of leadership are, Individual, Group, and Organizational.

The leadership paradigm that assumes leaders are born, not made, is ____ theory.

Trait

____ and ____ leadership theories are also called universal theories.

Trait and Behavioral

Most employees are promoted to their first management position primarily because of their ____ skills.

technical