MGMT 380 Chapter 1 Connect

All of the above are emotional leaders

Which of the following is NOT an example of emotional leader?

The success and failure of an organization

Which of the following is NOT an example of how researchers have defined leadership?

Effective leadership is all common sense

Which of the following is a myth?

Leaders develop, whereas managers maintain

Which of the following is not a myth?

They are both born and made

Which of the following is true of college professors who are considered leaders?

His competition with Apple

Which of the following was NOT a factor in the success of Microsoft's founder Bill Gates?

Martin Luther King Adolf Hitler Reverend Jim Jones

Examples of Emotional leaders

True

It is essential to consider both context and followers when determining leadership effectiveness

True

Leadership includes something happening as an outcome of the interaction between a leader and followers

Control

All of the following terms are associated with leadership except

How aspects of the situation affect how leaders act The relationships between leaders and followers The personality, physical traits, or behaviors of the leader

Areas of study by leadership researchers

False

Being an expert on leadership research is both necessary and sufficient to being a good leader

false

Formal study and learning from experience are mutually exclusive and antagonistic

Strategy

Fred Fiedler's contingency model of the leadership process included all of the following except

Influencing an organized group toward accomplishing its goals

How Parrado managed to convince the survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash to stage and support the final expedition would be most likely examined by researchers who define leadership as ___

Situation

Task, stress, and the environment are all part of which component of the interactional framework?

Leadership initiative

The decision by the San Francisco postmaster following the 1906 earthquake and fire to allow people to send letters regardless of weather they had stamps or not is an example of which type of response to a natural disaster?

Emotional

The definition of leadership that highlights the directing and controlling aspects of leadership may deemphasize the __ aspect of leadership

Commitment to leaders is relatively high among members of the in-group

Which is true of in-groups?

It is a result of the interaction between a leader and followers

Which is true of leadership?

Inspirational

Which of the following best describes a leader?

Leaders are both born and made

Which statement is true?

Planning

Management is often associated with which of the following terms?

Fred Fiedler

The first researcher to formally recognize the importance of the leader, follower, and situation in the leadership process was

Narrower the band of acceptable behavior

The less one looks like, acts like, and talks like other leaders in the organization, the ___

Narrower the band of acceptable behavior

The less one looks like, acts like, dresses like, and talks like other leaders in the organization, the ___

Gates opportunity to practice computer programing while still in high school

The success of Microsoft's founder can be attributed to his intelligence, his vision, and ___ among other things

The process by which an agent induces a subordinate to behave in a desired manner

Which definition of leadership appears to exclude informal leadership?

A leader with a calm disposition who doesn't attack others for bringing bad news

Which type of leader is most likely to get complete and timely information from subordinates?

An individual whose followers have participated in the selection of the leader

Which leader is most likely to gain the respect of followers?

The personality of the followers

All of the following are areas of study by leadership researchers except