Deck 14: Leadership

Question 1

In corporate world, arrogance means being unpretentious and modest rather than arrogant and prideful.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Leadership occurs among people, involves the use of influence, and is used to attain goals.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Three distinguishing personal characteristics associated with successful leaders are intelligence, honesty, and self-confidence.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Values associated with interactive leadership include personal confidence, exclusion, and independence.

Question 5

Within a single individual, management and leadership reflect the same sets of qualities and skills that frequently overlap.

Question 6

Ohio State University researchers identified two major behaviors called consideration and initiating structure.

Question 7

Self-confidence, honesty and integrity, enthusiasm, and the desire to lead, are all intelligence and ability components of personal characteristics of leaders.

Question 8

Interactive leadership means that the leader favors a consensual and collaborative process, and influence derives from relationships rather than position power and formal authority.

Question 9

According to new research, Ohio State's "high-high" style is not always the best.

Question 10

Consideration is the extent to which the leader is task oriented and directs subordinate work activities toward goal attainment.

Question 11

The highest level in a hierarchy of manager capabilities refers to level 5 leadership.

Question 12

Job-centered leaders are those leaders that establish high performance goals and display supportive behavior toward subordinates.

Question 13

Level 5 leaders are ambitious for their organizations, not for themselves.

Question 14

The De La Salle Spartans coach, according to Innovative Way in Chapter 14, institutionalizes a process of building bonds among players along with a process of drills, workouts, and practices.

Question 15

Influence means that the relationship among people is passive.

Question 16

Leadership is reciprocal.

Question 17

Level 5 leaders are ambitious for themselves and their organizations.

Question 18

The extent to which the leader is mindful of subordinates, respects their ideas and feelings, and establishes mutual trust refers to initiating structure.

Question 19

Interactive leadership has been found to be more common among female leaders.

Question 20

Good leadership is needed to help the organization meet current commitments, while good management is needed to move the organization in the future.

Question 21

The relationship-oriented leader performs better in situations of intermediate favorability because human relations skills are important in achieving high group performance.

Question 22

A mission is an attractive, ideal future that is credible yet not readily attainable.

Question 23

The telling style, according to Hersey and Blanchard, is appropriate for followers with moderate readiness.

Question 24

An inspirational leader who has the ability to motivate subordinates, through personal transactions, to transcend their normal performance refers to a transactional leader.

Question 25

The leadership grid suggests a two-dimensional leadership theory that measures a leader's concern for people and concern for production.

Question 26

To match the leader's style with the situation by changing factors in the situation to achieve the best match is the basic idea with Fiedler's contingency theory.

Question 27

A substitute counteracts the leadership style and prevents the leader from displaying certain behaviors.

Question 28

The country club management style (1,9) stresses high service and concern for guests or customers, sometimes to the detriment of employees of the firm.

Question 29

Situational theory model is easier to understand than Fiedler's model, but it incorporates only the characteristics of followers, not those of the situation.

Question 30

A situational variable that counteracts a leadership style and prevents the leader from displaying certain behaviors is called a neutralizer.

Question 31

Hersey and Blanchard's situational theory focuses a great deal of attention on the characteristics of employees in determining appropriate leadership behavior.

Question 32

The pragmatic survivor is a follower who participates actively in the organization but does not use critical thinking skills.

Question 33

Leader-member relations, task structure and task consideration, according to Fiedler, are the three factors that combine to determine the leadership situation.

Question 34

A transformational leader is a leader distinguished by a special ability to bring about innovation and change.

Question 35

The contingency approach links the leader's behavioral style with the task readiness of subordinates.

Question 36

Task Structure refers to the extent to which the leader has formal authority over subordinates.

Question 37

The charismatic leader has the ability to motivate subordinates to transcend their expected performance.

Question 38

Transactional leaders have the ability to lead changes in the organization's mission, strategy, structure, and culture, as well as to promote innovation in products and technologies.

Question 39

Charismatic leaders typically have a strong vision for the future and they can motivate others to help realize it.

Question 40

The task-oriented leader, according to Fiedler, excels in the favorable situation whereas relationship-oriented leaders are most effective in situations of moderate favorability.

Question 41

Power is the potential ability to influence the behavior and decisions of other people.

Question 42

Peter has the ability to convince others to work toward organizational objectives. This ability is known as

A) motivation.
B) leadership.
C) commitment.
D) a conceptual skill.
E) personal agenda.

Question 43

The type of power that results from political referrals is referent power.

Question 44

When Lonnie shouts at Kerry in public for not finishing her work and suspends her for two days, he is using his coercive power.

Question 45

Mechanistic power is one of the five sources of power.

Question 46

The effective follower exhibits neither critical, independent thinking nor active participation.

Question 47

Research indicates that that people rate leaders as "more effective" when they are perceived to use one influence tactic.

Question 48

A leader who works to fulfill subordinates needs and goals as well as to achieve the organization's larger mission refers to a servant leader.

Question 49

All of the following are essential parts of any definition of leadership EXCEPT

A) influence.
B) people.
C) goals.
D) coercive power.
E) influence and people only.

Question 50

Moral leadership is about distinguishing right from wrong and choosing to do right.

Question 51

Rational persuasion is one interpersonal influence tactic available for leaders.

Question 52

People who are entangled in a network of relationships have less power.

Question 53

Influence is the effect a person's actions have on the attitudes, values, beliefs, or behavior of others.

Question 54

Leadership is reciprocal, according to your text. This means

A) it is dynamic.
B) it is a problem-solving activity.
C) it occurs between people.
D) redundant.
E) it always creates conflict.

Question 55

The alienated follower is a person who is an independent, critical thinker but is passive in the organization.

Question 56

Legitimate, reward, and expert powers are all forms of position power.

Question 57

Effective leaders develop networks of allies; people who can help the leader accomplish his or her goals.

Question 58

The type of power that results from the leader's legitimate authority, based upon his or her position within the organization, is called coercive power.

Question 59

Two types of personal powers are expert and reward powers.

Question 60

____ is the ability to influence people toward the attainment of organizational goals.

A) Motivation
B) Leadership
C) Persuasion
D) Commitment
E) Organizational citizenship

Question 61

____ means being unpretentious and modest rather than arrogant and prideful.

A) Humility
B) Egotism
C) Altruism
D) Reserved
E) Assurance

Question 62

Which of the following refers to the highest level in a hierarchy of manager capabilities?

A) Interactive leadership
B) Creative leadership
C) Level 5 leadership
D) Postheroic leadership
E) People-oriented leadership

Question 63

Which of the following combinations, according to research conducted at the Ohio State University, produced the highest levels of performance and satisfaction?

A) High consideration and low initiating structure
B) High consideration and high commitment
C) High initiating structure and high consideration
D) High initiating structure and high commitment
E) Low consideration and low initiating structure

Question 64

Recently, Beagle Boutique was attempting to hire a middle manager. They were looking for an intelligent, active, and creative individual. Which approach to leadership was Beagle using?

A) The contingency approach
B) The situational approach
C) The trait approach
D) The behavioral approach
E) The substitute approach

Question 65

The leader who builds widespread commitment to a clear and compelling vision and stimulates people to high performance is a ____ leader

A) Level 1
B) Level 2
C) Level 3
D) Level 4
E) Level 5

Question 66

Which of the following is NOT a manager quality?

A) Persistent
B) Tough-minded
C) Analytical
D) Deliberate
E) Personal power

Question 67

Researchers at the Ohio State University identified two major behaviors called

A) commitment and consideration.
B) commitment and initiation.
C) consideration and initiating structure.
D) initiating structure and commitment.
E) consideration and concern for people.

Question 68

Which of the following is consistent with initiating structure?

A) Task oriented behavior
B) Open communication
C) Teamwork oriented
D) People oriented behavior
E) Country-club management style

Question 69

Colleen Farney at TeleTech shows vast knowledge, intelligence, cognitive ability, and keen decisiveness. Which personal characteristic of leadership is she showing?

A) Physical characteristics
B) Intelligence and Ability
C) Personality
D) Social Characteristics
E) Social Background

Question 70

The Michigan researchers used the term ____ for leaders who established high performance goals and displayed supportive behavior toward subordinates.

A) job-centered leaders
B) employee-centered leaders
C) initiating structure
D) consideration
E) impoverished management

Question 71

According to research, ____ typically score higher on social and emotional skills.

A) level 5 leaders
B) women
C) postheroic leaders
D) men
E) minorites

Question 72

According to the most recent research on the leader behaviors of consideration and initiating structure, which of the following combinations is best?

A) High consideration and high initiating structure
B) High consideration and low initiating structure
C) Low consideration and high initiating structure
D) Low consideration and low initiating structure
E) None of these; no one style is best.

Question 73

The leader who builds an enduring great organization through a combination of personal humility and professional resolve is a ____ leader

A) Level 1
B) Level 2
C) Level 3
D) Level 4
E) Level 5

Question 74

All of the following are leadership qualities EXCEPT:

A) visionary.
B) innovative.
C) experimental.
D) structured.
E) flexible.

Question 75

Which of the following characteristics of leaders have been studied?

A) Personality traits
B) Physical traits
C) Social traits
D) Work-related traits
E) all of these

Question 76

Self-confidence, honesty and integrity, and the desire to lead, are all components of which personal characteristic of leaders?

A) Physical characteristics
B) Intelligence and Ability
C) Personality
D) Social Characteristics
E) Social Background

Question 77

The distinguishing personal characteristics of a leader are known as

A) traits.
B) sources of power.
C) leadership styles.
D) leadership behaviors.
E) personal preferences.

Question 78

In general, research has found a(n) ____ relationship between personal traits and leader success.

A) strong
B) weak
C) positive
D) negative
E) inverse

Question 79

The early research on leadership traits was referred to as the

A) contingency theory of leadership.
B) path-goal theory of leadership.
C) great man approach.
D) situational theory of leadership.
E) behavioral approach.

Question 80

Meggan is a manager at Botell International. She is very friendly and extremely respectful of her subordinate's welfare. She can be described as

A) high in initiating structure.
B) low in initiating structure.
C) high in consideration.
D) a team leader.
E) task-oriented manager.