Deck 11: Leadership

Question 1

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

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

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

Answer 3

False

Question 4

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

Question 5

Leadership is reciprocal.

Question 6

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

Question 7

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 8

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

Question 9

Level 5 leaders are ambitious for themselves and their organizations.

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

Influence means that the relationship among people is passive.

Question 21

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 22

Situational theory model focuses a great deal on the characteristics of followers,not those of the situation.

Question 23

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 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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

Question 31

Matching 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 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

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

Question 41

Level 5 leaders often set their successors up for failure because it will be a testament to their own greatness if the company doesn't perform well without them.

Question 42

In a recent study,it was found that women and men ranked equally in leading the strategic planning process.

Question 43

Authentic leadership refers to individuals who know and understand themselves,act consistently with high ethical values,and empower others.

Question 44

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

Question 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

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

Question 48

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 49

In a recent study,it was found that men were more capable in motivating others and producing high-quality work than women.

Question 50

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

Question 51

Two types of personal powers are expert and reward powers.

Question 52

Mechanistic power is one of the five sources of power.

Question 53

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

Question 54

Rational persuasion is one interpersonal influence tactic available for leaders.

Question 55

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 56

Authentic leaders lead with their heads instead of their hearts.

Question 57

Even when the needs of organizations change,the concept of leadership should stay the same.

Question 58

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

Question 59

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

Question 60

A level 3 leader is someone who is able to organize people and resources toward the effective and efficient pursuit of predetermined objectives.

Question 61

All of the following are leadership qualities EXCEPT:

A) visionary.
B) innovative.
C) promotes change.
D) structured.
E) nurtures.

Question 62

Rather than just understanding their traits,the best leaders recognize and hone their strengths.

Question 63

Transformational leaders are hardworking,tolerant,and fair-minded,but are not as capable of leading change as are transactional leaders.

Question 64

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

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

Question 65

A situation would be considered highly favorable to the leader when tasks are highly unstructured and the leader has little formal authority.

Question 66

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 67

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 68

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

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

Question 69

Personal power,innovation,and nurturing are consistently viewed as manager qualities rather than leader qualities.

Question 70

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 71

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 72

In the study of leadership,concern for tasks and concern for people are viewed as metacategories because they are broadly defined behaviors that are used as a basis for study and comparison.

Question 73

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 74

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 75

Which of the following is NOT a manager quality?

A) Maintains stability
B) Organizes
C) Analyzes
D) Rational
E) Personal power

Question 76

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

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

Question 77

Humility plays an important part in distinguishing whether a charismatic leader will work to benefit primarily the larger organization or use his or her gifts for personal gain.

Question 78

An active follower is characterized by a need for constant supervision.

Question 79

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 80

Use of rational persuasion and making use of higher authority are two commonly used influence tactics.