Leadership Test 1

Jim is a district manager of Wendy's in west Michigan. When he hires people, the most important thing he looks for is whether people are good problem solvers.

Jim is using the Mumford Skills Model

Leadership skills are defined in the chapter as

Knowledge and competencies to accomplish goals

The vast majority of research on traits from early to modern day has found

Leaders are different from non-leaders

Researchers developed a questionnaire called LBDQ. The letters "LBDQ" stand for what?

Leadership behavior description questionnaire

Environmental influences directly contribute to which of the other components of Mumford et. al's skills model?

Leadership outcomes, individuals attributes, and competencies

Individuals displaying the five major traits in the text

May be leaders in their workplace

Tamika uses her ability to sense and perceive her staff's emotions every day to help them feel comfortable in the workplace. She is very knowledgeable about day-to-day operations and also is quite successful at anticipating problems and sharing ideas for improvements up the chain of command. Applying Katz's skills model, at what level of management in Tamika?

Middle management

A leader who has intermediate concern for both tasks and relationships is displaying

Middle-of-road behaviors

Your boss tries to create a positive work environment while also instructing employees about what tasks to do and when they should be completed. This is an example of

Middle-of-the road leadership

The research by Mumford et. al. was done on a sample of

Military leaders at multiple levels

I am the lead barista at a local coffee shop managing four staff. I love to chat with them regularly, work with them on schedules that fit their needs, and work to develop camaraderie amongst all. I do assign tasks and hold them accountable for the work, but that is my secondary concern. My behavior would plot on the Blake & Mouton Leadership Grid at what point?

5,5

Research related to the trait approach has

Been around for over 100 years

I am able to identify task and relationship types of behaviors in my leader. I am applying the main force of which leadership theory?

Behvioral

Which of the following is a competency in the skills model?

Cognitive ability

Social competencies in emotional intelligence include

Conflict management Empathy

Your boss listens to employees personal problems and tries to create a positive work environment by being agreeable, eager to help, comforting, and uncontroversial. This is an example of

Country Club Leadership

A manager arrives an hour early to work every day and is always completing his task early as well as constantly striving for excellence within the organization. Which two traits best represent the manager?

Dependable and diligent

The 100 or more years of research on traits was completed originally to

Determine a universal set of traits associated with leadership

__________ is described as those abilities to understand one's own and others feelings, behaviors and thoughts and to act appropriately.

Emotional intelligence

Assisting group members in building cohesiveness is primarily a task behavior.

False

Crystallized cognitive ability refers to one's innate intellectual ability or intelligence.

False

Katz states that human skills are most important for middle and top management levels.

False

Motivation and personality fall within the competencies component of Mumford's skills model

False

Openness is one of the five traits in the text that focuses on honesty and trustworthiness.

False

Technical skills grow in importance as one moves up the managerial hierarchy.

False

The behavioral approach has been validated by a wide range of studies.

False

The behavioral approach is not describing what leaders do but who leaders are.

False

The environment influences listed are all internal, with the exceptions of

Flooding of the office

Which of the following attributes begins to decline in later adulthood?

General cognitive ability

Relationship behaviors

Help group members feel comfortable with each other

Relationship Behaviors

Help group members feel comfortable with each other and encourage leader-follower interactions

Completing a personal assessment of one's own leadership traits

Helps individuals understand how they fit into an organization

Arif is the leader of a small group of human resource professionals. Two of these staff members, Nina and Bohan, disagree about the leadership traits that Arif displays in their work situation. This disagreement describes which of the main criticisms of the trait approach?

High subjectivity

A chief operating officer of the company who applies the level of administrative skills to the degrees delineated in Katz's model

Incorporates the entire staff in the process of shaping the company's goals

Applying the trait approach to 21st century leadership

Informs the leader's traits are a part of leadership process

Which of the following is not a relationship-focuses leader behavior?

Initiating Structure

The five traits that have been found to be the set of traits leaders must have to be considered leaders are

Intelligence, sociability, self-confidence, integrity, determination

Paternalism/Maternalism refers to a leader who

Is a benevolent dictator

Which of these statements about the skills approach is false?

It clearly predicts how variations in social judgement and problem-solving skills affect performance

Which of the following is a strength of the trait approach?

It helps followers fulfill their need to see their leaders as gifted and special

A major strength of the trait approach is

It highlights the leader component of the leadership process

A strength of the trait approach

It is appealing to identify special traits in leaders

The trait approach is criticized for its failure to take ________ into consideration.

Situations

Intelligence as a leader characteristic is found in which of the following approaches?

Skills and Trait

_____ are what leaders can accomplish, whereas _____ are who leaders are

Skills and traits

Which of the following is not a criticism of the behavioral approach?

The behavioral approach is heuristic

Effective problem solving and performance can be explained by leader competencies, and these competencies are affected by

The environment, leader's attributes, career experiences

Pat Smith is personnel director for a large bank. Her major goal is to find a person who can adapt his or her leadership to different types of people and situations. Pat is basing her selections on

The skills approach

Collectively among all the research on the behavioral approach, what is one consistent finding from the research?

There was no universal style determined to be best

Katz started the research focus on skills during a time when

There was still disagreement about leader traits in the literature

An organization requires you to fill out a personality assessment instrument of your application process for a specific position with the organization. Why would you have to do this?

To determine whether you fit their needs for the particular position

Jonathan has equally high skills in managing relationships with the employees he supervises and in helping the first shape the vision for growth. Applying Katz's skills model, at which level of management is Johnathan?

Top Management

More research has been conducted on this approach than any other.

Trait

Mary has managed the mailroom for 2 years. Management views Mary as a person with special leadership talent, such as intelligence, sociability, and determination. What approach is management using in assessing Mary?

Trait approach

Kirkpatrick and Locke's research postulated that

Traits can be learned

Human skills are important at all levels of management

True

In application, the trait approach can help individuals pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses

True

Mumford's research studied military personnel rather than business and organizational leaders.

True

Of all the traits that are related to leadership, intelligence is probably the strongest (most consistent).

True

The skills approach is relatively new and has not been widely used in training and development .

True

The style approach has failed to identify a universally effective leadership style.

True

The trait approach determines the most important traits in a subjective way.

True

Conducted studies of social intelligence and its relationship to leadership:

Zaccaro

The Big Five consists of all the following factors except

dominance

Openness is the Big Five Personality Model is defined as

intellect, being informed, creativity

The University of Michigan studies explored how leadership functioned in

small groups

Emotional intelligence included our ability to perceive and

use emotions to facilitate thinking and express emotions

The behavioral approach describes

what leaders do

Which research group labeled task behaviors "initiating structure"?

Ohio State Studies

Which study analyzed questionnaires taken by followers as their leader behaviors?

Ohio State Studies

Which study viewed task and relationship behaviors as independent and on two different continua?

Ohio State Studies and Michigan Studies

Human skills are about working with

People

Goleman suggests that emotional intelligence

Plays a major role in a person's success

Mia expresses interest in her employees' personal and professional lives. She is employing

Relationship behaviors

A leader who is assured and dominant in her manner is expressing

Self-confident

Johanna is excellent at applying tax law and other accounting principles in her job as a manager in her accounting firm. She has equally high skills in working with the employees she supervises but does not have as much skill in helping the firm shape the vision for growth. Applying Katz's skills model, at what level of management is Johanna?

Supervisory management

Researchers studying the behavioral approach determined that leadership is composed of two general kinds of behaviors:

Task and Relationship

I am meeting my new team, which I will directly supervise for the first time. I introduce myself and jump rught into the agenda items for the jobs each team member will be assigned. I am using

Task behaviors

Larry dislikes giving instructions to employees. He is uncomfortable with

Task behaviors

The individual attributes factor in the skills model suggests

That the skills model is not competency-based model.