Deck 8: Power and Leadership From the Top

Question 1

Government institutions, contrary to intuition, are not political entities.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

One definition of power focuses on potential influence over attitudes and behaviors of a particular group.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The authors note that in the United States, individuals with money and education can wield influence.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

According to the social power and influence model of leadership as discussed
In your text, referent power belongs to those with legitimate claims to power.

Question 5

Knowing how to exert power over individuals to force them to do something is called expert power.

Question 6

Position power depends upon an individual's charismatic personality.

Question 7

In position power, the individual leader controls rewards and punishments.

Question 8

In social power, the attainment of a goal is dependent upon the leader's control of rewards with a group.

Question 9

The text authors discuss examples of only those presidents who utilized the power of the position rather than their individual characteristics.

Question 10

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is given as an example of presidential leadership because of his use of personal power influence with Britain's leader Margaret Thatcher.

Question 11

Influence is defined by the authors as the degree of change in a target person's attitude or behavior.

Question 12

In the text political science refers to the study of

A) Politics at the presidential level
B) Processes, principles, and structures of governmental and political organizations
C) Collaborators and leaders in non-governmental organizations who use science to accomplish goals
D) Political organizations that answer to governmental organizations
E) None of the above

Question 13

Influence tactics, according the text, are

A) Based on appeals to reason
B) Always legal
C) Based on exchange of favors
D) A and B
E) A and C

Question 14

Managers choose which influence tactics to use based on

A) The manager's relative power
B) The culture of the organization
C) The manager's expectation that others will comply
D) All of these are usually considered
E) None of these would be considered

Question 15

The Social Power and Influence Model as described by your text authors

A) Discusses the sources of power for mangers
B) Ignores the manager's competence
C) Considers the ability the manager has to coerce employees
D) Discusses the manger's relationship with others
E) Discusses power that the organizational hierarchy gives the manager

Question 16

Position power for a manager is

A) Derived from one's position in the organization
B) Based on control over information
C) Based on one's personal power
D) A and B
E) B and C

Question 17

McClelland's social power is not

A) A positive use of power
B) A negative use of power
C) When a goal is realized by a group
D) Based on the manager's need for affiliation
E) All of these are associated with social power

Question 18

Presidential leadership is a focus of the discussion on power because

A) Presidency is a highly visible leadership position
B) Presidential leadership has implications for democracy according to your text
C) Presidential power is not constrained by other legitimate powers
D) B and C
E) A and B only

Question 19

Contemporary presidential powers are

A) Listed in the Constitution
B) Debated frequently
C) Frequently outside a formal list of powers, called extraordinary powers
D) An important part of American politics
E) All of the above apply

Question 20

Neustadt's discussion of presidential leadership includes

A) The President's ability to communicate with the public
B) The President's ability to persuade
C) The belief that Teddy Roosevelt is considered the ideal U. S. President
D) A and C only
E) A and B only

Question 21

In writing about presidential power, Greenstein identified which of the following as skills that influence presidential effectiveness?

A) Being an effective public communicator
B) Possessing emotional intelligence
C) Possessing vision
D) Being able to rally colleagues and structure their activities
E) All of the above

Question 22

Greenstein identifies which past president as not possessing sufficient emotional intelligence?

A) Richard Nixon
B) George Bush
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) Andrew Jackson
E) Dwight Eisenhower

Question 23

Franklin Roosevelt is profiled as an example of presidential leadership because

A) He rose from a humble and poor background
B) He could not walk because of his polio
C) He demonstrated confidence and optimism during a very trying time for Americans
D) He flew to China to open a relationship with that country
E) He never attended college yet became president

Question 24

How does a successful leader balance the ability to exert power and the ability to exert influence?

Question 25

Discuss how being a good communicator helps make a leader successful.

Question 26

Briefly define Etzioni's three types of organizational power: coercive, utilitarian, and normative.

Question 27

Identify and describe an extraordinary power exercised by Roosevelt as summarized in the text.

Question 28

Why is Margaret Thatcher called the "Iron Lady"?

Question 29

Define political science as your text presents the concept.

Question 30

Select one of the text's examples of a president exercising presidential power and discuss how you think that action was accomplished based on the skills and characteristics mentioned in your text.