Deck 1: Approaches for Motivating Followers, Achieving Results, and Inspiring Change

Question 1

John Quincy Adams ran for reelection as president of the United States. Because he lost the election, he could no longer be considered a leader.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Leadership is not necessarily associated with persons who are in important, high-ranking positions.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

"Management" can be defined as a process of social influence to motivate others to achieve a desired goal.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

There is a common saying that "management" is doing things right, whereas "leadership" is doing the right things.

Question 5

Leaders should be unquestioned and noncontroversial.

Question 6

The main focus of your textbook The Business of Leadership is on business leaders who do not hold management positions.

Question 7

Leadership can be learned because it is a programmed activity that you can practice and memorize by rote.

Question 8

The modern scientific study of leadership dates only from the beginning of the twentieth century.

Question 9

In the second book of the Bible, leadership is described with specific principles and qualities as well as the managerial notion of delegation through an organizational hierarchy.

Question 10

The study of leadership moved from the "Great Man" perspective in the late 1800s to trait theories in the first half of the 1900s.

Question 11

Initiation of structure describes a variety of behaviors related to development and inclusion of subordinators in organizational planning activities.

Question 12

The situational perspective still forms the basis of most leadership theories today.

Question 13

Position power refers to the title in an organization that a leader holds.

Question 14

It is evident that start-up firms frequently are short of capital and therefore have restrained resources, but that established bureaucracies do not suffer from insufficiency of resources.

Question 15

Not every employee has or should have a goal to reach the top of the organizational hierarchy.

Question 16

The following are the best words to describe leadership:

A) command, control, demand
B) bond, inspire, influence for results
C) force, regulate, conform
D) bold, resolute, heroic

Question 17

Leadership is the art and process of:

A) pushing people
B) convincing people
C) converting people
D) pulling people along to a desired goal

Question 18

According to Breen (2007), the following are integral qualities of a leader:

A) loyalty and eagerness
B) vision, integrity, willingness to take risk
C) calmness and easygoingness
D) assertiveness

Question 19

A person who holds a separate and distinct title with inherent authority for carrying out particular assigned responsibilities is called:

A) chief
B) manager
C) boss
D) superintendent

Question 20

A measure of the process of achieving results, referring to resource utilization in terms of the ratio of outputs to inputs, or the cost of inputs for each unit of output produced, is known as:

A) effectiveness
B) outcome
C) value
D) efficiency

Question 21

Effectiveness is a measurement of:

A) quantity
B) quality
C) productivity
D) superiority

Question 22

The first literature about leadership can be found in the:

A) Babylonian Gilgamesh
B) Bible
C) Homeric Iliad
D) Spanish Don Quixote

Question 23

The "science of leadership" did not emerge until the:

A) first half of the twentieth century
B) second half of the twentieth century
C) first half of the nineteenth century
D) second half of the nineteenth century

Question 24

Certain constraints may be brought to light by a leader's own abilities. However, there are also constraints caused by:

A) loads of resources
B) the position itself
C) intellectual capacity
D) environment

Question 25

When constrained specifically by a lack of resources, leaders should generally consider the following:

A) analyzing strengths and weaknesses through a thorough assessment process
B) using more delegation, training, mentoring, planning, depending on the type of resource constraint
C) requesting or making rule changes, and seeking appropriate waivers of policy
D) requesting policy changes through appropriate channels as a long-term project

Question 26

Leadership constraints tend to be:

A) logical
B) temporary
C) long-term
D) fixed

Question 27

Learning about the nature of those constraints in detail so that it is possible to work within the constraints confidently and fully is one of the strategies leaders can consider when they face:

A) excessive position constraints
B) a lack of resources
C) a lack of certain leadership abilities
D) excessive legal or contractual constraints

Question 28

The role of management at the supervisory level is to:

A) respond appropriately to management
B) develop managerial skills in order to use authority well
C) maintain managerial excellence, including fiduciary responsibility
D) create vision in order to inspire change as needed

Question 29

To be a better employee or supervisor, one needs to understand:

A) some levels of organizational activity
B) all levels of organizational activity
C) only his or her capacity level
D) managerial level of organizational activity

Question 30

According to the OPM content analysis in 2007, which types of competencies are identified by the federal executives as the most crucial or important?

A) task-oriented competencies
B) people-oriented competencies
C) organization-oriented competencies
D) culture-oriented competencies

Question 31

How do leadership passages parallel the typical growth and development of leadership skills?

Question 32

Describe what type of competency is more common at the executive level than at the supervisory level.

Question 33

Describe the common constraints on leadership.

Question 34

How do responsibilities and levels of authority change as one moves up the hierarchy?