Deck 12: Leadership and Trust

Question 1

A high LPC score indicates that a worker is productivity oriented.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The big problem with the managerial grid is that it doesn't tell how management styles work in different situations.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Fiedler's contingency model focused on having employees describe their ideal coworker.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Fiedler's model proposed that leadership success was determined by matching leadership style to situation.

Question 5

A leader who ranks 9,1 in the managerial grid would have more concern for people than production.

Question 6

Trait theories of leadership focus on how leaders interact with their followers.

Question 7

Research has shown a distinct set of traits that distinguishes leaders from nonleaders.

Question 8

The Michigan studies suggested that the most successful leaders were production oriented.

Question 9

Leadership identifies a process while leader identifies a person.

Question 10

Fiedler concluded that relationship-oriented leaders seemed to perform better in highly unfavorable situations.

Question 11

Tannenbaum and Schmidt suggested that in the long run managers should move toward an employee-centered leadership style.

Question 12

Having leadership traits alone is not useful for identifying who is likely to be a leader.

Question 13

Trait research has given managers the ability to pick out leaders from the group.

Question 14

A major goal of behavioral leadership studies is to find ways to train people to be leaders.

Question 15

The Ohio State studies suggested that leaders who were high in structure and low in consideration were most successful.

Question 16

A leader with an autocratic style often delegates authority to subordinates.

Question 17

Situational leadership theory (SLT)states that an R1 worker who is unable and unwilling to perform a task responds best to a telling leadership style.

Question 18

Fiedler concluded that task-oriented leaders tended to perform better in favorable situations and worse in unfavorable situations.

Question 19

Ideally, all managers should not be leaders.

Question 20

A leader is someone who has managerial authority and can influence others.

Question 21

Charismatic and visionary leadership are the same thing.

Question 22

Path-goal theory states that a directive leadership style works best when tasks are ambiguous.

Question 23

Path-goal theory states that a participative leadership style works best when tasks are highly structured.

Question 24

One reason that empowerment is important in today's business climate is that managers today tend to have smaller spans of control than managers of the past.

Question 25

A transactional leadership style is not related to a transformational style.

Question 26

In contrast to Fiedler, path-goal theory assumes that leaders assume a single, permanent leadership style.

Question 27

Situational leadership theory (SLT)states that an R3 worker who is able but unwilling to perform a task responds best to a selling leadership style.

Question 28

One of the keys to being a good team leader is to know when to leave a team alone.

Question 29

A successful visionary leader "jump-starts" the future.

Question 30

Of the five dimensions that make up the concept of trust, loyalty seems to be the most critical.

Question 31

Team leadership is becoming less important in today's world because teams don't need leaders.

Question 32

Since charisma is an inborn trait, no efforts have ever been made to train people to be charismatic.

Question 33

Emotional intelligence (EI)is the best predictor of who will emerge as a leader.

Question 34

One specific role of team leadership is that team leaders are troubleshooters.

Question 35

Trust is the belief in the integrity, character, and ability of a leader.

Question 36

In different countries, the most universal aspects of leadership seem to be elements of transactional leadership.

Question 37

Vroom and Yetton's leader-participation model suggests that leadership research should focus on the situation rather than the leader.

Question 38

Transformational leadership and charismatic leadership are identical.

Question 39

Experts state that 85 percent of all managers are not natural team leaders.

Question 40

Robert House's path-goal theory maintains that an effective leader clears the path for a follower to the follower's goal.

Question 41

Tannenbaum and Schmidt's continuum studies suggested that managers should move toward ________ leadership styles.

A)manager-centered
B)task-centered
C)employee-centered
D)quality-centered

Question 42

The promise of behavioral theories of leadership held that this would be possible.

A)picking a leader out of crowd
B)being able to train a person to be leader
C)explaining why successful leaders were successful
D)eliminating ineffective leaders

Question 43

The most successful early trait theories focused on ________.

A)traits of famous leaders
B)traits of followers
C)traits associated with leadership
D)traits that distinguish leaders from nonleaders

Question 44

If a trait theory of leadership were true, then all leaders would possess ________.

A)charisma
B)the same traits
C)different traits
D)seven traits

Question 45

A high-high leader in the Ohio State studies achieved the highest ratings with respect to ________.

A)both employee performance and satisfaction
B)employee performance only
C)employee satisfaction only
D)employee performance for routine tasks only

Question 46

Which leadership style tends to centralize authority and make unilateral decisions?

A)cultural style
B)autocratic style
C)democratic style
D)laissez-faire style

Question 47

Early leadership trait research looked to find characteristics that might ________.

A)distinguish ordinary leaders from great leaders
B)define charisma
C)identify the physical traits of leaders
D)differentiate leaders from nonleaders

Question 48

A democratic participative leader ________.

A)seeks input and shares the final decision
B)shares the final decision without input
C)makes the final decision without input
D)seeks input but makes the final decision by oneself

Question 49

Trait theory helps explain why ________.

A)some people are leaders
B)some people are not leaders
C)successful leaders are effective
D)leadership involves extraversion

Question 50

Leaders are ________.

A)individual people, while leadership is a process
B)the first step in the leadership process
C)individual people who study the leadership process.
D)the final step in the leadership process.

Question 51

Monica's boss allows her to make any decision she thinks is important on the spot without consulting anyone.Monica's boss has this kind of leadership style.

A)laissez-faire style
B)autocratic style
C)democratic style
D)hands-on style

Question 52

A sizeable majority of American employees trust the leaders of the companies they work for.

Question 53

Behavioral theories of leadership focused on ________.

A)who effective leaders were
B)what characteristics effective leaders had
C)how to identify effective leaders
D)what effective leaders did

Question 54

Because leading is one of the four basic managerial functions, ________ leaders.

A)all managers are
B)all managers should be
C)some managers are
D)some managers should be

Question 55

The Iowa studies indicated that this was the most successful leadership style.

A)autocratic
B)laissez-faire
C)combination of autocratic and laissez-faire
D)democratic

Question 56

A democratic consultative leader ________.

A)seeks input and shares the final decision
B)makes the final decision without input
C)seeks input but makes the final decision by oneself
D)shares the final decision without input

Question 57

In the Ohio State studies, ________ refers to how much mutual trust exists between employees and leaders.

A)consideration of limitations
B)consideration
C)initiating structure
D)initiating ideas

Question 58

In the Ohio State studies, ________ refers to how strict a leader's standards are.

A)independent dimensions
B)comprehensive structure
C)initiating structure
D)consideration

Question 59

The University of Iowa studies discussed all of the following leadership styles EXCEPT ________ leadership.

A)laissez-faire
B)democratic
C)benevolent
D)autocratic

Question 60

Jared's boss encourages employees to participate in the decision-making process but does not give them complete freedom to do as they like.She has this kind of leadership style.

A)monarchial
B)autocratic
C)laissez-faire
D)democratic

Question 61

Fiedler assumed a person's leadership style ________.

A)is contingent on the situation
B)is variable
C)evolves over time
D)is fixed

Question 62

Estéban was rated a 5,8 on the managerial grid.A good way to describe Estéban is ________.

A)high in concern for both people and production
B)high in concern for people, low in concern for production
C)high in concern for people, moderate in concern for production
D)low in concern for people, moderate in concern for production

Question 63

The Ohio State studies indicated that leaders who were high in initiating structure received ________.

A)the highest employee ratings
B)the lowest employee ratings
C)the same employee ratings as leaders who were high in consideration
D)below-average employee ratings

Question 64

The key to the Fiedler contingency model of leadership is to match ________.

A)leader and follower
B)leader and leadership style
C)leadership style and follower
D)leadership style and situation

Question 65

In the situational leadership theory (SLT), readiness is defined as ________ to perform a task.

A)the ability
B)the willingness
C)both the ability and willingness
D)the motivation one has

Question 66

On the managerial grid, a leader who is high in both concern for people and concern for production would rate ________.

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

Question 67

Your boss has total control over hiring, firing, and promotions in your department.He has ________.

A)low position power
B)high position power
C)high task structure
D)low task structure

Question 68

What does Fiedler's least-preferred coworker questionnaire measure?

A)the most common leadership style among all leaders
B)leadership style of respondents who took the test
C)the most effective leadership style
D)the least effective leadership style

Question 69

According to the University of Michigan studies, leaders who were ________ were associated with higher group productivity and higher job satisfaction.

A)employee oriented
B)initiating structure
C)considerate
D)production oriented

Question 70

Fiedler's LPC ratings concluded that leaders were either ________.

A)positive or negative
B)task oriented or trusting
C)relationship oriented or people oriented
D)task oriented or relationship oriented

Question 71

A major criticism of Fiedler's work stated that it failed to recognize that effective leaders ________.

A)are always task oriented
B)can change leadership styles
C)cannot change leadership styles
D)are always relationship oriented

Question 72

A leader who provides maximum supportive behavior and a great deal of explicit instructions for how to carry out a task is assuming this SLT role.

A)telling
B)selling
C)participating
D)delegating

Question 73

The Ohio State studies indicated that leaders who were high in consideration performed ________.

A)best in all situations
B)best when employee tasks were routine
C)worst when employee tasks were routine
D)best when employee tasks were nonroutine

Question 74

Fiedler concluded that task-oriented leaders performed best when the situation was ________.

A)highly favorable
B)highly unfavorable
C)either highly favorable or highly unfavorable
D)moderately favorable or moderately unfavorable

Question 75

The ________ dimension reflects the degree of trust and respect subordinates had for their leader in Fiedler's model.

A)leader-member relations
B)position power
C)task structure
D)effectiveness

Question 76

Which quadrant of the managerial grid generally identifies the most successful leaders?

A)top left
B)bottom left
C)bottom right
D)top right

Question 77

Which description best characterizes a 9,1 leadership style on the managerial grid?

A)impoverished management
B)task management
C)middle-of-the-road management
D)country club management

Question 78

Jobs in a firm are quite informal.Workers are versatile and switch tasks and responsibilities depending on the situation.In Fiedler's model, this firm would be said to have ________.

A)good leader-member relations
B)high position power
C)high task structure
D)low task structure

Question 79

________ is defined in situational leadership theory (SLT)as a high task, low relationship leadership role.

A)Telling
B)Selling
C)Participating
D)Delegating

Question 80

Fiedler concluded that relationship-oriented leaders performed best when the situation was ________.

A)highly favorable
B)highly unfavorable
C)either highly favorable or highly unfavorable
D)moderately favorable or moderately unfavorable