Deck 2: Leadership Ethics and Traits

Question 1

Leaders high in emotional intelligence outperform managers with average people skills.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Intelligence refers to cognitive ability to think critically, to solve problems, and to make decisions.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The Big Five Model of Personality is the most widely accepted way to classify personalities.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The majority of CEOs, but not all CEOs are extraverts.

Question 5

High energy is best categorized as the conscientiousness dimension of the Big Five.

Question 6

Effective leaders are high on all of the factors in the Big Five Model of Personality.

Question 7

The four components of emotional intelligence are self-awareness, self-efficacy, social awareness, and self-management.

Question 8

In a study of two groups of executives, one successful and one whose careers were derailed, the reason for the latter's failure was poor human relations.

Question 9

Research has confirmed that there is a limited number of confirmed and agreed up on traits this leaders have.

Question 10

Understanding people's personalities is important because personality affects behavior as well as perceptions and attitudes.

Question 11

Intelligence is the best predictor of job performance.

Question 12

The Big Five Model of Personality categorizes traits into the dimensions of insurgency, adjustment, disagreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.

Question 13

The Dominance trait affects all other traits related to effective leaders.

Question 14

Personality profiles are used to categorize people as a means of predicting job success.

Question 15

Emotional intelligence is a personality dimension related to surgency.

Question 16

Researchers agree on the personality traits that leaders have.

Question 17

Personality is developed solely based on genetics.

Question 18

To be more effective, psychologists recommend that we change our personality, not just our behavior.

Question 19

The adjustment personality dimension includes traits related to emotional stability.

Question 20

Self-awareness relates to being conscious of your emotions and how they affect your personal and professional life.

Question 21

Effective leaders use personalized power.

Question 22

Attitudes help to explain and predict job performance.

Question 23

Effective leaders have a higher need for affiliation than power.

Question 24

You can be an effective leader, or follower, even if you don't have a positive self-concept.

Question 25

Leaders that are high in self-management are self-motivated, conscientious, adaptable, and optimistic.

Question 26

David McClelland said that needs are based on personality and are developed as we interact with the environment.

Question 27

People with strong n Ach want to take responsibility for solving problems and are high risk-takers.

Question 28

Dominance is one of the two major traits of the surgency Big Five.

Question 29

Managers with Theory X attitudes tend to display more coercive, autocratic leadership styles using internal motivation and rewards.

Question 30

People with strong n Pow tend to seek entrepreneurial type positions and are attuned to power and politics.

Question 31

McClelland identified power as either good or bad.

Question 32

Without power, there is no leadership.

Question 33

The Pygmalion effect proposes that leaders' attitudes and expectations of followers, and their treatment of them, explain and predict followers' behavior and performance.

Question 34

Leaders need a high n Pow to influence followers, peers, and higher level managers.

Question 35

Self-efficacy is the belief in your own capability to perform in a specific situation.

Question 36

Achievement Motivation Theory attempts to explain and predict behavior and performance based on one's need for power, affiliation, and recognition.

Question 37

People with a high n Aff also tend to have a high n Pow.

Question 38

If an person does not want to be a leader, chances are that he or she will not be an effective leader.

Question 39

The Leader Motive Profile (LMP) includes a high need for achievement, a moderate need for affiliation, and a moderate need for power, which is socialized.

Question 40

People with Theory X attitudes hold that employees like to work and do not need to be closely supervised in order to do their work.

Question 41

The common leadership style at the conventional level of moral development tends to be visionary.

Question 42

A leader with a negative self-concept and a theory Y attitude tends to blame others when things go wrong.

Question 43

Personality alone is a good predictor of unethical behavior.

Question 44

When people use unethical behavior, it is often due to some type of character flaw.

Question 45

People with an external locus of control, rather than an internal locus of control, are more likely to use unethical behavior.

Question 46

At the postconventional level of moral development, it is common for lower-level managers to use a leadership style similar to those of higher-level managers.

Question 47

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ensures that those who act unethically will be prosecuted.

Question 48

Our ethical behavior is related to our individual needs and personality traits.

Question 49

At the preconventional level of moral development, living up to expectations of acceptable behavior defined by others motivates behavior to fulfill duties and obligations.

Question 50

At the conventional level of moral development, self-interest motivates behavior.

Question 51

To determine if your decision is ethical, you can ask yourself, "Are all stakeholders happy?"

Question 52

An effective leader tends to have Theory X attitudes with a positive self-concept.

Question 53

The common leadership style at the preconventional level of moral development is autocratic toward others.

Question 54

Ethics are the standards of right and wrong that influence behavior.

Question 55

Distortion of consequences is the process of using "cosmetic" words to make the behavior sound acceptable.

Question 56

"I was only following orders; my boss told me to inflate the figures" is an example of displacement of responsibility.

Question 57

Ethical leadership requires the ability to do the right thing at the risk of rejection and loss.

Question 58

Moral development refers to understanding right from wrong and choosing to do the right thing.

Question 59

A good way to develop a positive self-concept is by observing and copying others' attitudes.

Question 60

Under the stakeholder approach to ethics, one creates a win-win situation for relevant parties affected by the decision.

Question 61

The ____ personality dimension includes traits related to self-control and how well one remains under pressure.

A) agreeableness
B) conscientiousness
C) surgency
D) adjustment

Question 62

Emotional intelligence includes all of the following EXCEPT:

A) self-awareness.
B) social awareness.
C) self-management.
D) self-concept.

Question 63

Self-confidence is best categorized as the ____ Big Five dimension.

A) adjustment
B) agreeableness
C) surgency
D) conscientiousness

Question 64

Intelligence refers to:

A) critical thinking.
B) decision making.
C) problem solving.
D) all of the answers are correct

Question 65

One of your employees, Quanita, is low on job commitment and tends to engage in counterproductive behavior. She is likely low on the ____ trait of the conscientiousness dimension?

A) extraversion
B) dependability
C) flexibility
D) Emotional stability

Question 66

Which of the following statements regarding personality is true?

A) Personality is developed based on genetics and environmental factors.
B) Personality is distinguishing personal characteristics.
C) Personality affects behavior as well as perceptions and attitudes.
D) Personality predicts behavior and job performance.
E) A, c and d

Question 67

____ is dependent on the other three EI approaches.

A) Social awareness
B) Self-awareness
C) Relationship awareness
D) Self-management

Question 68

Which of the following is NOT a belief of David McClelland?

A) Needs are based on personality.
B) All people possess the need for achievement, power, and affiliation, but to varying degrees.
C) Our needs are motivated by our behavior.
D) Needs are developed as we interact with the environment.

Question 69

Which of the following is NOT a trait of high conscientiousness?

A) organization
B) extraversion
C) conformity
D) credibility

Question 70

Of the Big Five personality dimensions, the highest correlation with leadership is:

A) conscientiousness.
B) openness to experience.
C) surgency.
D) adjustment.

Question 71

People with strong n Ach tend to have all of the following EXCEPT:

A) self-confidence.
B) external locus of control.
C) high energy traits.
D) a high concern for excellence in accomplishments through individual efforts.

Question 72

Emotional intelligence is related to which of the following Big Five personality dimensions?

A) surgency
B) openness to experience
C) adjustment
D) conscientiousness

Question 73

Which of the following is NOT a major reason for executive derailment?

A) They used a bullying style viewed as intimidating, insensitive, and abrasive.
B) They were viewed as being cold, aloof, and arrogant.
C) They betrayed personal trust.
D) They undermanaged.

Question 74

The manager of an engineering consulting firm is extraverted and gets along well with others. In addition, she has managed multiple projects at a time, often under stressful circumstances, but she has still maintained her equanimity, and seen projects through to completion "with a firm hand." This manager is displaying:

A) surgency, agreeableness, and adjustment.
B) conscientiousness and surgency.
C) openness to experience and surgency.
D) none of the answers are correct

Question 75

Which of the following is NOT a Big Five personality dimension?

A) surgency
B) agreeableness
C) adjustment
D) attractiveness

Question 76

Which of the following statements regarding emotional intelligence (EI) is TRUE?

A) EI is the ability to work well with people.
B) An offshoot of EI is IQ (intelligence quotient).
C) IQ outweighs EI when it comes to personal achievement.
D) There are five components of EI.

Question 77

Dominance is so important for managers to have because:

A) you've got to want to be a leader.
B) the dominance traits affects all the other traits related to effective leaders.
C) successful leaders want to take charge.
D) all of the answers are correct

Question 78

High n Pow is categorized as the Big Five dimension of ____.

A) surgency
B) agreeableness
C) conscientiousness
D) openness to experience

Question 79

Research has found that managers who had derailed tend to have:

A) worked too hard, then burned out.
B) displayed a lack of trust in their subordinates.
C) relied on only one contemporary leadership theory.
D) been overly ambitious.

Question 80

Which of the following is NOT a trait of an effective leader?

A) dominance
B) high energy
C) intelligence
D) talent