Exam 2 Bmgt 364

All effective leaders are extraverts

False

In House's path-goal theory, the leader's style is viewed as fixed and the environment changes; Fiedler's theory assumes just the opposite

False

Transactional leadership is a more effective form than transformational leadership

False

Research on Fiedler's Contingency Theory indicates which of the following?

Fiedler's theory is important because it recognizes the importance of the leadership context

The trait approach to leadership examines which of the following factors?

Personality chracteristics

Which of the following statements related to fundamental factors affecting a group's cohesion is correct

The more similar group members are, the more cohesive the group is likely to be

Which of the following is true with respect to gender differences in leadership style?

Women tend to display more democratic and less autocratic styles as compared to men

Selecting a new computer based on a low price without analyzing what software, warranties, and peripherals come with it is an example of

anchoring and adjustment bias

Indira thought her nose piercing was really unique, but after she got it, she noticed that so many other people on campus had nose piercings too. She is experiencing

availbility bias

Anita finishes her college semester on April 15. She will be home from April 15 until May 20 when she is scheduled to have her wisdom teeth removed. She will be going on a family vacation during the third week in July and will be returning to school on August 10 for majorette camp. Anita is looking for a job for the summer. She figures she will take the first job that pays minimum wage and will allow her flexibility for her dental appointment and vacation. Anita is making a decision using the

bounded rationality decision-making model

Individuals have flawed decision making processes are because of

cognitive bias

Which of the following is a symptom of groupthink

collective rationalizations

Serena listened to her manager discuss with her group the idea of painting the office walls yellow. Serena thought it was a bad idea but didn't say anything. Serena is

conflict avoidant

Because the ________ role involves gathering information from the larger organization and informing those within the organization about team goals, activities and success, it is often filled by the team manager.

consul

Maurice is a manager in the production area of a large manufacturing firm. He sets a tight production schedule every day and makes certain each employee knows what job he is performing that day and how to perform it. Maurice has a ____________ leadership style

directive

A movie called the "Money Pit" starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long focused on the couple buying a house and continually having to spend money repairing one part of it after another. A number of times they should have sold the house, but they kept thinking that if they did just one more thing, the house would be great. This is situation is an example of what decision-making trap?

escalation of commitment

The Big 5 personality trait ___________ has the strongest relationship to both leader emergence and leader effectiveness.

extraversion

Symptoms of too much cohesion include

failures are blamed on external factors

Charisma is an inherent characteristic, so those firms attempting to teach charisma, are not making good use of their time or money.

false

Collectivist societies value individual achievements over interpersonal relationships

false

Hindsight bias is the opposite of framing bias

false

Strategic decisions are usually made by middle level managers

false

Group members in the norming stage

find it easy to establish their own ground rules

Which stage of Tuckman's group development model is characterized by general information sharing

forming

Self-management teams can be

found at all levels of organizations

Collectivist societies tend to

have employees who evaluate their group members higher than their counterparts in individualistic societies do.

Empowerment means

having the responsibility and authority to reach goals.

High quality LMX is related to

increased job satisfaction

The bounded rationality decision-making model

recognizes the limitations of decision making processes by having individuals knowingly limit their options to a manageable set and choose the best alternative without conducting an exhaustive search of alternatives

Experts propose that creativity occurs as a result of the interaction between all of the following factors EXCEPT

serendipity or luck

being charasmatic is

something that can be increased through training.

Doris and Lydia are members of the Board of Directors at Beta Corporation. They are giving very serious consideration to voting to merge their company with Zeta Company for enhanced efficiency, effectiveness and competitive advantage. Doris and Lydia are making a(n)

strategic decsion

The decision-making process where decisions are arrived at without conscious reasoning, arguing that experts make decisions by scanning the environment for cues to recognize patterns is

the intuitive decision-making model

Operational decisions refer to

those things that employees do each day to make the organization run.

Malcolm is the manager of his department. After performance evaluations, he gives those who have met their goals for the year a pay raise. He gives his employees their assignments and leaves them to do their work but does monitor them so that if he notices a potential problem, it gets resolved before causing difficulties. What kind of contemporary leadership style is Malcolm demonstrating?

transactional leadership

___________ leaders lead employees by aligning employee goals with the leader's goals

transformational

A formal leader is one who holds a position of authority and may utilize the power that comes from that position as well as personal power to influence others.

true

Cliff and Beth both received poor grades on their finance exam. Because of the fundamental attribution error, Cliff is more likely to blame his poor test grade on a bad instructor, but blame Beth's poor test grade on Beth's lack of effort studying for the test

true

Empowered teams have the responsibility and authority to achieve their goals

true

Groups with high group cohesion and high task commitment generally have high performance.

true

Having a devil's advocate in meetings is a technique that can help avoid groupthink

true

Norms are shared expectations about how things operate within a group or team

true

Passive management by exception involves leaving employees alone and waiting until something goes wrong before entering the picture

true

People with high mental abilities are more likely to be viewed as leaders in their environment.

true

Pooled interdependence is when team members work independently and combine their efforts to create the team's output.

true

The performing stage of group development involves attention to work content and process

true

The three factors that evaluate the level of creativity in the decision-making process are fluency, flexibility, and originality

true

To satisfice is to accept the first alternative that meets minimum criteria

true

The key factor in the effectiveness of transformational leadership is

trust

An organizational behavior class has students working in teams. The teams have a final paper due. Maria's group has divided the paper up into sections making each group member responsible for one section. Maria is responsible for integrating all those sections. The group is organizing these tasks by using

pooled interdependence

Maria is part of an organizational behavior project group. Her group members chose her as the leader of the group because she is always on task, on time for meetings, sets achievable goals and is willing to assist anyone who needs help. Maria is

Conscienious

How does a team differ from a group

A team is focused on joint goals; a group often has a collection of individual goals.

Which of the following is accurate regarding the nature of social roles in a team?

If social roles are filled in a firm, groups are more cohesive

Marina is encouraging her sorority sisters to function as a cohesive group. She lists all of the following as benefits EXCEPT

If you are part of the sorority, you do not have to attend meetings and events often because you can depend on your sisters to cover for you

Which of the following would be a good piece of advice to offer a company that is trying to enhance organizational creativity

Incorporate creative behavior into the performance appraisal process

Servant leadership

is a leadership approach that defines the leader's role as serving the needs of others

outcome interdependence

is when the rewards that an individual receives depend on the performance of others.

If leader-subordinate relations are poor, position power is high and task structure is high, the situation would be categorized as

medium favorable

Claudia is a salesperson with a major department store chain that is currently running a "secret coupon sale." The program allows the salesperson to randomly award a savings coupon to any shopper of the salesperson's choice. Who the salesperson chooses to award the coupon to is a(n)

operational decsion