Deck 8: Leadership

Question 1

Informal leaders are individuals who provide leadership without being formally designated a leader.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Charisma is usually defined by the effect that it has on it followers.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Maria Yee is known for her coaching and development of others.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Strategic leadership applies only to actions taken by senior management.

Question 5

Leadership is defined as the process of providing general direction and influencing individuals or groups to achieve their goals.

Question 6

Charismatic leaders inspire their followers to fulfill their own needs and goals.

Question 7

One of the techniques that New York City police commissioner William Bratton did in 1994, to reform his department was to give greater authority and autonomy to precinct commanders.

Question 8

Effective leaders tend to be concerned with "doing things right."

Question 9

A job centered leader closely supervises individuals.

Question 10

Introversion is considered to be one of the categories of leadership traits.

Question 11

It is now believed by researchers that leaders are born and not made.

Question 12

Large research projects on the topic of leadership were conducted in the early part of the twentieth century at the University of Michigan and Ohio State University.

Question 13

Most CEOs believe leadership development is one of the most important factors in achieving a competitive advantage.

Question 14

The University of Michigan studies focused on two types of leader behavior: motivation-centered and job-centered.

Question 15

Tact and prestige are traits associated with leadership.

Question 16

Individuals who provide leadership without managerial authority are called formal leaders.

Question 17

Additional traits focused on by the trait theory are rigidity and creativity.

Question 18

Drive is considered to be one of the categories of leadership traits.

Question 19

A manager who follows rules and does not provide direction to his or her associates is still considered a leader.

Question 20

The methodology used to identify the traits for the early trait theory was poor and thus early trait research was criticized.

Question 21

The leader-member relations is the degree to which a leader is respected and is accepted as a leader.

Question 22

The Least Preferred Coworker scale was developed by Fred Fiedler.

Question 23

A study of former GE senior managers demonstrated that previously successful leaders tend to perform well in new job situations.

Question 24

Fred Fiedler believes that a leader's behavior is based on his or her motivational needs.

Question 25

Fiedler's model is criticized for its simplicity.

Question 26

Leaders who show consideration emphasize goals and performance expectations.

Question 27

Maria Yee's leadership style is both employee-centered and job-centered.

Question 28

The path-goal theory was developed by Martin Evans and Robert House.

Question 29

Fred Fiedler developed a trait theory of leadership.

Question 30

Leaders who initiate structure emphasize goals, deadlines, and performance expectations.

Question 31

Fiedler's research has shown that task-oriented leaders are more effective in highly favorable and highly unfavorable situations.

Question 32

Task structure is the degree to which tasks can be broken down into easily understood steps.

Question 33

The concepts studied at the University of Michigan and Ohio State were very similar.

Question 34

The path-goal theory is based on the leader's cognitions and social skills.

Question 35

The Ohio State studies looked at the leadership behavior of consideration and initiating structure.

Question 36

Police commissioner Bratton displayed a job-centered style by carefully monitoring police officers' performance.

Question 37

According to the path-goal theory, leadership can affect employee's expectancies and valences in several ways.

Question 38

The two best known situational theories of leadership are the contingency theory of leadership and the path-goal theory of leadership.

Question 39

The LPC scale assesses leadership styles.

Question 40

Position power is the degree to which a leader can use his or her social skills to persuade his or her associates.

Question 41

Transformational leaders encourage followers to place their own needs before the needs of the organization.

Question 42

Transformational leadership involves motivating followers to do more than expected.

Question 43

The path-goal theory does not propose that leader behavior interacts with situational factors.

Question 44

Leaders can only display either transactional or transformational leadership behavior, not both.

Question 45

Servant leadership is the opposite of transformational leadership.

Question 46

Transactional leaders have difficulty understanding what their followers want to receive from their work.

Question 47

Transformational leadership behavior is probably more effective than transactional leadership behavior in dynamic environments.

Question 48

Individuals who have positive relationships with the leader are members of an in-group, according to the LMX theory.

Question 49

Directive, supportive, achievement-oriented, and participative leadership are leader behavior styles that the path-goal theory focuses on.

Question 50

Basketball coach Phil Jackson uses one leadership style for every situation.

Question 51

An authentic leader is someone who is genuine and truthful.

Question 52

LMX stands for the leader-member exchange model.

Question 53

Transformational leadership results from both personal characteristics and specific actions.

Question 54

Transactional leadership focuses on leaders' exchange relationships with followers.

Question 55

Contingency leadership concepts are less difficult to apply than the traits or behavioral concepts, because they are more simplistic.

Question 56

The path-goal theory implies that leaders might need to treat individuals differently within the same organization.

Question 57

The socialization model suggests that there should be a difference in the way males and female leaders behave.

Question 58

Servant leaders do not seek out leadership roles.

Question 59

Basketball coach Phil Jackson uses a less directive leadership style when coaching his players.

Question 60

An argument suggesting that societal expectations of women require female leaders to develop leadership styles that are different from male leaders is referred to as the structural-cultural model of leader behavior.

Question 61

The path-goal theory was proposed by Fred Fiedler.

Question 62

In the Germanic cluster countries, the ideal leader is one who is expected to be autocratic.

Question 63

According to the trait theory, "great leaders are _____ not born."

Question 64

The findings of the GLOBE project suggest that charismatic leadership is viewed as effective across all cultures.

Question 65

Transactional leaders provide clear expectations to their followers.

Question 66

The GLOBE project stands for Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness.

Question 67

A formal leader is one who has been formally _____ by the organization.

Question 68

In the Southern Asia cluster countries, the ideal leader is expected to have little power and have little authority.

Question 69

Leadership is defined as the process of providing general direction and _______ individuals or groups to achive their goals.

Question 70

Two large leadership studies were conducted in the early 1900s at ______ and ________.

Question 71

_____developed the contingency theory of leadership effectiveness.

Question 72

The LPC is associated with the ________theory of leadership.

Question 73

At least part of Maria Yee's success is due to her passion for a _______ world.

Question 74

Fielder's Contingency Model of leadership suggests that effectiveness depends on the match between a leader's style and the degree of favorableness of the situation.

Question 75

Those who manage social and __________ capital well are good leaders.

Question 76

In the Anglo cluster countries the ideal leader demonstrates charismatic influence.

Question 77

The University of Michigan studies focused on two styles of leader behavior: ______and ______.

Question 78

In the Arabic cluster countries, the ideal leader is expected to have a great deal of power.

Question 79

Individuals who provide leadership without being formally designated by the organization are called _______ leaders.

Question 80

The Ohio State University studies focused on two independent dimensions of leadership: ________and ________.