Chapter 17 - Leadership

DeRue organized leadership traits into three categories: demographic, task competence, and interpersonal attributes. Which of the following falls into the interpersonal attribute? Agreeableness Gender Intelligence Emotional Stability

Agreeableness

When should a meeting's minutes be distributed to the team for clarification?

As soon as the meeting is over

Which of the following leadership theories states leaders are made not born?

Behavior

In Kotter's method of leading change, which comes first? Communicate vision to all employees Build a team to guide change Generate short term wins Develop a vision and strategy

Build a team to guide change

Who is responsible for leading, planning, budgeting, resourcing, and training the IT staff? CEO CFO CIO COO

CIO

The C in C-level stands for which of the following?

Chief

CODM stands for which of the following?

Consensus-oriented decision making

According to Vroom and Jago's decision-making strategies, the "c" stands for which of the following? Chief Clinical Consultative Coordination

Consultative

A person may be a leader in one situation but not in another is the base of what leadership theory?

Contingency

That people may be leaders in one context but NOT in another is what leadership theory? Trait Behavior Contingency Power and influence

Contingency

In Blake and Mouton's leadership grid, which leadership style reflects a high concern for people but a low concern for productivity?

Country club

Which of the following is not part of the group dynamic model proposed by Tuckman? Creating Norming Storming Forming

Creating

Which of the following is a disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, analyzing, synthesizing, applying, and evaluating information? Exploration of change Leadership Change management Critical thinking

Critical thinking

Which of the following leadership styles is participative and supports collective decision making by offering others in the group choices and then empowering its members by facilitating group deliberations? Laissez-faire Authoritarian Socialists Democratic

Democratic

Which of the following is not a specific ability used in critical thinking?

Disorganize priorities

Which of the following statements is true about the C-suite?

Every member of the C-suite reports to the board of directors

What is the type of power given to leaders who are authorities in their fields or have knowledge or skills that are in short supply are referred to as? Expert Referent Legitimate Influence

Expert

Which of the following is the harshest form of leadership? Participative Leadership Bureaucracy Exploitive autocracy Benevolent autocracy

Exploitive autocracy

A good size for a team is approximately 35. T/F

FALSE

A leader's real effectiveness is inversely related to the amount of influence that an individual has on the team performance, satisfaction of team members, and overall team effectiveness. True False

FALSE

Change is the same as transition. T/F

FALSE

Leading is one of the four management functions in addition to planning, consolidating, and controlling. True False

FALSE

Physiological leadership traits include age, education, and socioeconomic background. True False

FALSE

The CFO's primary role is to develop and implement high-level strategies. T/F

FALSE

The Great Person Theory is closely associated with the contingency leadership theory. T/F

FALSE

While meetings should start on time it is acceptable for a meeting to go beyond the time allotted as a certain amount of material must be covered at each meeting. T/F

FALSE

When should a leader introduce the topic of upcoming changes to a group?

Four to six months prior to the change

According to Blake and Mouton's leadership grid, if a leader exhibits a low concern for people and low concern for production which category would they be placed in? Impoverished management Country club Authoritarian Team leader

Impoverished management

Which of the following is a tool designed to find the root cause of a problem?

Ishikawa diagram

According to Blake and Mouton's leadership grid, authoritarian leadership reflects which of the following? Low concern for people and a low concern for production Low concern for people and high concern for production High concern for people and low concern for production High concern for people and a high concern for production

Low concern for people and high concern for production

What is the rule of thumb for the size of a team?

No more than 20

What is the term used in the communication model for those things (sounds or motion) that distract? Encoding Media Ideation Noise

Noise

Which of the following is a problem -solving technique that focuses on working with individuals to find a mutually acceptable solution?

Nominal group technique

Posture is an example of what type of communication?

Nonverbal

When discussing leadership traits, integrity refers to the leader _____. Treating all members of the team fairly. Keeping everyone on task and projected outcomes Not appearing to change or waiver when difficulties occur Respecting all members of the team

Not appearing to change or waiver when difficulties occur

Which of the following is the most lenient pattern of leadership?

Participative leadership

There are two broad categories of behavioral characteristics. The first is task-oriented and the second is which of the following? Role-oriented Position-oriented Job-oriented People-oriented

People-oriented

Distal attributes have which of the following traits? Problem-solving skills and social appraisal skills Advancement and promotion Expertise and tacit knowledge Personality and cognitive abilities

Personality and cognitive abilities

The leadership trait of "appearance" is which of the following?

Physiological

Bridge's model of managing change indicates that there will be a negative impact on the organization in all but one of the change phases. Which phase shows a positive impact through the entire stage?

Rebuilding phase

Group members trying to find their role within the team is part of which stage of Tuckman's model?

Storming

Active listening allows a group member to listen and participate in the proceedings. T/F

TRUE

Critical thinking implies that human beings prefer to do things that have the most meaning for them. T/F

TRUE

In change management, when considering how the change will occur, a leader must consider the type of employees impacted by the change, the work situation where the change will occur, and how supervisors will work with their staff. True False

TRUE

Intellectual stimulation is a common component of transformational leadership. T/F

TRUE

Laissez-faire leadership is also known as delegative leadership. T/F

TRUE

Referent power is the ability of the team members to identify with leaders who have desirable resources or personal traits. True False

TRUE

Teams and committees are not essentially the same. T/F

TRUE

Who has the responsibility for setting the meeting agenda?

Team leader

Accountability of team members is an example of which of the following?

Team norm

In which of the following theories would a leader feel that he or she cannot trust group members and has to micromanage?

Theory X

McGregor investigated leadership styles related to a leader's philosophy about the members of a group or team. Those theories were classified as which of the following? Theory A and B Theory M and N Theory S and T Theory X and Y

Theory X and Y

What is the name of the theory that is exemplified by leaders who inspire and motivate a group of people, and creates a vision of the future? Transactional Transformational Inspirational Motivational

Transformational

Creating a vision to guide a change through inspiration is characteristic of which of the following?

Transformational leadership

Who provides the team charter? The team leader Upper management Group consensus Middle management

Upper management