Leadership development final (True or False)

Ace your homework & exams now with Quizwiz!

A single derailment pattern of behavior is typical enough to cause a manage to fail

False

According to Robert Kelley, alienated followers frequency point out the negative aspects of an organization and are view by leaders as adversarial

False

Feeling leaders like to analyze, criticizes, and approach decisions impersonally and objectively

False

Figurehead managers try very hard to be the spotlight

False

Good leadership is all about calculation, planning, and following a checklist

False

In-group favoritism occurs when people overrate quality of their work or the extent of their group contributions

False

Smart but inexperienced leaders end to be more effective in stressful situations than less intelligent, experienced leaders

False

The based rate of managerial incompetence is estimated as 25 to 30 percent

False

The concept of the Golden Rule is similar to ends-based thinking

False

The most effective leaders focus exclusively on the rational consequences of their actions and ignore the emotions of followers

False

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

False

When followers are involved in the selection of a leader, tend to make fewer demands of the leader

False

You only need common sense too be a leader

False

A derailed manager exhibiting an inability to build relationship with co-workers is insensitive to need and plights of followers and is often overly competitive, demanding, and domineering

True

A widely respected leader chosen for 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 need f the organization

True

According to the dual-process theory, moral judgements that deal primarily with rights and duties are made by automatic- emotional responses

True

Analytic intelligence is general problems-solving and can be assessed using standardized mental abilities test

True

Cheerleaders strive to get along with others and make the workplace fun

True

Citizen tend to complain and do all they can to get out of work

True

Destructive leadership can occur at many levels in the organization

True

Everyone has at least one dark side personality trait

True

Figureheads tend to exhibit the behavior associated with skeptical, cautious and imaginative dark side traits

True

Followers can provide leaders with leaders with relevant information for good solutions to be internment since they are often at the level where many organizational problems occur

True

In the building black of skills, knowledge and experience are easier components to change than intelligence and personality traits

True

Leaders is a complex phenomenon involving the leader, the followers and the situation

True

Leaders tend to have higher extroversion scores than nonleaders

True

Leaders tent to have more influence with in-group followers than with out-group followers

True

Leaders who are lower in conscientiousness tend to be more spontaneous, creative, and impulsive

True

Leaders who can empathize and get along with other tend to be more successful than those who cannot

True

Leasers who makes theory Y assumptive are optimistic and believe workers are self- motivated

True

Managers ability to make decisions and build cohesive teams is associated with their level of intelligence

True

One of the reasons a leader is unable to build teams is due to dark-side personality traits

True

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

True

Statements such as "managers control; leaders inspire" represents a view that leader and managers are fundamentally different kinds of people

True

The OCEAN model id applicable across many cultures

True

The increasing pressure on organization to find good leaders quickly has a tendency to cause leaders to cause leaders to fail because of inadequate preparation for promotion

True

The mere presence of a group can cause people to act differently than when they are alone

True

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

True

Some managers may effective leader without ever having taken a course or training program in leader

true


Related study sets

World History Midterm Multiple Choice In Order of Tests

View Set

Ch 9. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

View Set

Goodness of the Son and the Holy Spirit

View Set

Marketing Research: Swift and Snug Furniture

View Set

Organizational Behavior & Theory (OB) Exam 2

View Set