Deck 4: Evolution of Western Leadership

Question 1

The direction of the study of leadership changed after the late 1890's.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Scientific management is an approach in which the total project is the focus of study.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Fayol promoted specialization and efficiency.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Max Weber developed his theory based on top down management principles.

Question 5

The Hawthorne effect focuses on increasing productivity by paying increased attention to workers.

Question 6

The quality movement is one of the efforts to put quantitative methods to management to describe productivity.

Question 7

The Great Man theory evolved into a systems approach of organizations.

Question 8

According to Kouzes and Posner, the top four values identified by managers as valuable in their supervisors were honesty, being forward looking, being inspirational, and charismatic.

Question 9

Trait models focus on inborn characteristics while behavioral theories focus on systems.

Question 10

Situational leadership considers the context of the action and the employees' readiness to act in a certain way.

Question 11

If a leader is following the path-goal theory, he/she will let followers determine how they want to reach organizational goals.

Question 12

Servant leadership

A) Deviates from the industrial model
B) Further develops the systems approach
C) Envisions workers as serving the leader's needs
D) Is a concept developed before World War II
E) None of the above fit

Question 13

Which are not characteristic of transformational leadership?

A) Leaders and followers in a mutually beneficial relationship
B) Leaders seeking real change
C) Leaders promoting growth
D) Leaders as dictators of how workers accomplish organizational goals
E) All of the above are characteristic

Question 14

According to the authors of your text, leadership skills for the future focuses on

A) A systems approach to organizational productivity
B) Maintaining the status quo
C) Early identification of individuals with certain leadership characteristics
D) Relationship building and sustainability.
E) Seeking answers from superiors

Question 15

Which of the following is not characteristic of modern Western leadership?

A) Quality dimension
B) An emphasis on the individual's role
C) A belief that there are criteria other than money and time in describing productivity
D) A balance among meeting the needs of the workers, the leaders, and the clientele
E) Reliance solely on industrial models of production

Question 16

The scientific management approach

A) Was based on successful industrial production models
B) Broke large tasks into smaller, manageable ones
C) Provides workers with the appropriate training to carry out their tasks
D) None of the above
E) All of the above

Question 17

Transactional Leadership:

A) Is used contemporarily to discuss traits of leaders.
B) Is often regarded as an authoritative approach.
C) Is regarded as a bartering system.
D) Emphasizes workers.
E) Emphasizes clear lines of responsibility.

Question 18

Doctors Without Borders is profiled by the text authors

A) Because it is very financially profitable because of its leadership
B) Because it is a good example of a systems approach
C) Since they have studied that group's leadership.
D) Because it operates differently than an industrial model
E) Because it is a nonprofit.

Question 19

Among the contemporary approaches to leadership behaviors are:

A) Discussions of relationships between leaders and their colleagues.
B) Employee-centered considerations.
C) Job-centered considerations.
D) None as these are all classical rather than contemporary.
E) All of these are considered.

Question 20

Which is not a characteristic of behavioral theories of leadership?

A) Participation of a leader
B) Traits associated with successful leadership
C) Directive leadership actions
D) An emphasis on actions and words.
E) All of the above are characteristic

Question 21

Scientific management approaches

A) Served as a basis for understanding how organizations were productive
B) Emphasize training for tasks workers must complete
C) Focus on productivity
D) A and C
E) A. B. and C

Question 22

Explain what is meant by behavioral approaches to studying leadership.

Question 23

What was William Edwards Deming's contribution to the understanding of operations management?

Question 24

What contribution does trait theory approaches make to the study of leadership?

Question 25

Describe the democratic or participative leader.

Question 26

What did Hersey and Blanchard mean by their term "situational leadership"?

Question 27

Define House's Path-Goal Theory.

Question 28

How does the Leader-Member Exchange differ from other transactional theories of leadership?