Deck 2: Leadership: The Integrative Variable

Question 1

Paul Whisenand created the Least Preferred Co-Worker (LPC)Scale.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The path-goal model deals with the interaction between leader behavior and situational factors.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The Managerial Grid is used as a diagnostic to help individual managers to assess their own leadership style.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Contingency theory to understanding leadership effectiveness attempts to combine elements of both trait and situational theory.

Question 5

A Level 5 manager can be found to be self-effacing.

Question 6

Michael LeBoeuf refers to organizational theory,industrial engineering,and behavioral science as the dynamic triangle.

Question 7

Influence can cause some behavior in some person for a specific purpose based on a power base.

Question 8

Lifetime learning is a reality for a police executive.

Question 9

Leadership style theory focuses on two basic styles.

Question 10

Francis Galton believed that leadership skills were simply inherited.

Question 11

There is no singular purpose of leadership.

Question 12

Conceptual skills are used to organize and integrate experience.

Question 13

Robert Tannenbaum and Warren Schmidt identified four basic leadership styles.

Question 14

Leaders who are effective can be described as one-dimensional.

Question 15

Universal theories search for an explanation of leadership unrelated to follower behavior or the social environment within which it develops.

Question 16

According to Robert Albanese,employee satisfaction and performance depend upon the characteristics of the employee.

Question 17

Situational theory says,in effect,that managerial leadership is linked to adaptability.

Question 18

Conceptual skills are more operational than managerial.

Question 19

Supportive leadership (path-goal)is similar to the concept of consideration used in the original Ohio State studies.

Question 20

Some believe that without follower consent an inspired leader cannot lead.

Question 21

Managerial leaders emphasize people-oriented and task-oriented needs ________.

A)interdependently
B)separately
C)discretely
D)disjointedly
E)none of the above

Question 22

Leaders who have integrity are principled.

Question 23

Organizational humanists believe the role of the managerial leader is to create conditions that allow people to achieve their own goals by directing their productive efforts toward ________ participation.

A)full
B)mandated
C)altruistic
D)liberated
E)none of the above

Question 24

Effective managerial leaders display ________.

A)idiosyncratic traits
B)charismatic qualities
C)an assumed role
D)functionality
E)none of the above

Question 25

The managerial leader's capacity to deal effectively with problems even though the lack of information might preclude making a totally informed choice from among the available alternatives is known as ________.

A)anomic adaptability
B)tolerance for ambiguity
C)rational tolerance
D)a multifaceted phenomenon
E)negative entropy

Question 26

Applied research has failed to discover a definitive or consistent correlation between effective leadership and genetically determined ________.

A)intelligence
B)physical stamina
C)personality
D)body type
E)all of the above

Question 27

Leadership is reflected in a series of social situations orchestrated by ________ relationships.

A)focused
B)respondent
C)synergistic
D)situational
E)productive

Question 28

Effective leaders are produced via the synergistic interaction between ________.

A)personal traits
B)anomic transactions
C)leadership styles
D)situational factors
E)all except B

Question 29

According to Souryal,the essence of managerial leadership lies in an administrator's ability to identify ________.

A)the nuances of functional leadership
B)the needs of people in work groups
C)areas of compromise
D)a zone of credibility
E)none of the above

Question 30

There is a ________ relationship between followers and leaders.

A)functional
B)response
C)reciprocal
D)motivational
E)transaction

Question 31

Ultimate authority in any organization is vested in the ________ and is ________ through the formal chain of command to all personnel in the organization.

A)staff personnel;delegated
B)middle managers;allocated
C)chief executive;delegated
D)top management;allocated
E)operational personnel;delegated

Question 32

V)A.Leonard and Harry W.More contend that leadership is the critical ________ in police agencies.

A)catalyst
B)element
C)method
D)variable
E)energy

Question 33

If the score on the LPC scale is a score of 64 or above it tends to exhibit a leadership style that is best described as ________ motivated.

A)loyalty
B)task
C)situationally
D)supportively
E)relationship

Question 34

Authority is power that is inherent in the ________.

A)position
B)policy of the agency
C)person
D)group
E)follower

Question 35

The parameters within which employees are inclined to do willingly what is asked of them by their superiors can be called the ________ as employees have exerted themselves through increased demands for participatory management.

A)zone of collaboration
B)zone of acceptance
C)zone of compromise
D)zone of rejection
E)zone of acquiescence

Question 36

Proactive leadership is a ________ transaction.

A)reuniting
B)behavioral
C)power
D)reflective
E)trait

Question 37

Trust is a foundation of effectiveness.

Question 38

The leadership skills associated with good management can be organized under the heading ________.

A)specialized
B)abstract
C)human
D)innate
E)proactive

Question 39

Transactional style leadership ________.

A)takes on a lot of baggage
B)maximizes first line supervisorial input
C)supports creativity
D)accepts line personnel as they are
E)requires a long-term commitment

Question 40

According to Daniel Wren,the System 4 Management is built on ________ principles.

A)one
B)two
C)three
D)four
E)five

Question 41

According to recent studies,________.

A)commanding officers set the culture for agencies
B)employees develop their own patterns of behavior
C)employees model their upbringing at work
D)employees imitate the behavior of their leaders
E)none of the above

Question 42

Level 5 Leadership includes leaders who are ________.

A)avoiders of obstacles
B)situational
C)reticent
D)reciprocal
E)trait based

Question 43

Based on the specifics of a given situation,there are times when team management is an inappropriate management style,and police administrators are forced to temporarily slip into another style.Once things return to normal,they return to the team management approach.This is know specifically as ________.

A)contingency management
B)9,9 versatility
C)adaptive management
D)procurement management
E)5,5 flexibility

Question 44

In a hierarchical arrangement as proposed by "Good to Great" the highest level is ________.

A)three
B)four
C)five
D)two
E)one

Question 45

Transformational leadership focuses on ________.

A)short-term employee commitment
B)idealized stimulus
C)results
D)unquestioned commitment
E)none of the above

Question 46

According to the Managerial Grid,the least viable form of managerial leadership is represented by a matrix of ________.

A)1,9
B)9,9
C)9,1
D)1,1
E)5,5

Question 47

Philip Applewhite identified the following leadership category ________.

A)authoritarian
B)democratic laissez-faire
C)bureaucratic
D)charismatic
E)all of the above

Question 48

Management Systems Models foster ________.

A)fads
B)reciprocal relationships
C)power equalization
D)reactive value analysis
E)passive leadership

Question 49

System 2 - Benevolent Authoritative management emphasizes ________.

A)total trust in employees
B)management by exception
C)the Managerial Grid
D)the Ohio State studies
E)none of the above

Question 50

Jack Kuykendall and Peter Unsinger found police managers tend to have ________ management style.

A)a middle of the road
B)an impoverished
C)no dominant
D)a task-oriented
E)a country club

Question 51

Researchers from the University of Michigan formulated their own leadership profile based on leader behavior using the terminology ________.

A)structure/consideration
B)employee/task
C)concern for people/concern for production
D)employee oriented/production oriented
E)tell/sell

Question 52

In one study of police managers they found that the backup style of management was ________.

A)5,5
B)1,9
C)9,1
D)9,9
E)1,1

Question 53

The Ohio State studies clearly indicated that good managerial leaders exhibit a great deal of concern for ________.

A)consideration and structuring
B)control and expressive manners
C)a contemplative and expressive style
D)manifestation of charisma
E)a democratic interaction with employees process

Question 54

Key strengths to building trust include all but which of the following?

A)Clarity
B)Compassion
C)Character
D)Compliance
E)Contribution