Assignment
Question 1
Managers and leaders are different because:
Managers learn a set of skills for planning, organizing directing, and controlling.
Leaders must find the capacity to help create a vision of what the organization can be.
Leadership calls for caring about and engaging the whole employee.
Managers maintain stability while leaders promote change.
Question 2
Leadership is an art because of all EXCEPT:
Leadership is a growing body of objective facts and knowledge.
Leadership has skills that cannot be learned from a textbook.
Leadership takes practice.
Leadership takes hands-on experience.
Question 3
Effective leaders and effective followers are:
people with different traits.
people with different behaviors.
the same people, playing the same role.
the same people, playing different roles at different times.
Question 4
Possessing the traits of honesty and integrity are essential for leaders in order to:
build productive relationships.
build trust.
both build productive relationships and build trust.
seek achievement.
Question 5
"High-high" leadership behavior is generally considered desirable because:
leaders display concern for both people and production.
leaders will meet people-oriented and task-oriented needs simultaneously.
both leaders display concern for both people and production and leaders will meet people-oriented and task-oriented needs simultaneously.
task-oriented behavior was associated with higher productivity.
Question 6
In the Leadership Grid, the term Country Club Management refers to:
the exertion of minimum effort to get required work done.
efficiency in operations from arranging work conditions.
thoughtful attention to the needs of people for satisfying relationships.
work accomplishment from committed people and interdependence.
Question 7
Trait research has identified all of the following categories as essential to leadership EXCEPT:
work-related characteristics.
social characteristics.
personality.
culture.
Question 8
Drive is considered essential to effective leadership because:
leaders with drive seek achievement.
leaders with drive actively pursue goals.
leaders with drive have stamina.
all of these choices
Question 9
Team management is:
recommended because organization members work together to accomplish tasks.
considered the most effective style.
used when efficiency in operations is the dominant orientation.
both recommended because organization members work together to accomplish tasks and considered the most effective style.
Question 10
To use Fiedler's Contingency Theory, a leader needs to know:
whether his leadership style is relationship oriented.
whether his leadership style is task-oriented.
the organizational situation.
all of these choices
Question 11
Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Theory focuses on:
the characteristics of followers as an important element of the situation.
the readiness of the leader.
the characteristics of the leader.
whether the situation is favorable or unfavorable to the leader.
Question 12
The path-goal theory includes all EXCEPT:
clarifying the follower's path to the rewards that are available.
determining whether the situation is favorable or unfavorable to the leader.
increasing the rewards that follower values and desires.
working with subordinates to identify behaviors for task accomplishment.
Question 13
In the Vroom-Jago model, the Leader Decision Styles do NOT include:
Decide
Facilitate
Delegate
Empower
Question 14
The Big Five personality dimensions do NOT include:
extroversion
emotional stability
openness to experience
education
Question 15
A person with an internal locus of control:
believes that luck is the key to success.
feels that there is little control over events.
places primary responsibility on outside forces.
believes they are "masters of their own fate."
Question 16
A Theory Y leader believes all EXCEPT:
subordinates enjoy work.
subordinates are lazy and dislike work.
subordinates seek responsibility.
subordinates will exercise creativity and imagination.
Question 17
When the perceiver develops an overall impression of a person or situation based on one characteristic, ____ occurs.
projection
perceptual defense
the halo effect
external attribution
Question 18
A person with an overall positive self-concept has:
low self-esteem.
high self-esteem.
intuition.
end values.
Question 19
A trait that is closely related to authoritarianism is:
theory y.
agreeableness.
charisma.
dogmatism.
Question 20
A leader who is achievement oriented might assume that subordinates are also achievement oriented. This perceptual distortion is called:
the halo effect.
projection.
intuition.
stereotyping.
Question 21
Self-awareness refers to:
the ability to connect to others.
the ability to put oneself in some else's shoes.
being conscious of your own emotions.
Question 22
Assumptions can be dangerous because:
people tend to accept them as "truth."
they cannot be changed.
they can be changed.
people lack self-management.
Question 23
The tendency of people to not voice their true thoughts because they want to please others is:
situational theory.
the Abilene paradox.
the Post conventional level.
Theory Y.
Question 24
Synergy is the combined action that occurs when people:
renew the physical, mental, spiritual, and social aspects of their lives.
work together to create new alternatives and solutions.
blame others.
focus on preserving and enhancing relationships.
Question 25
Intrinsic rewards:
are the internal satisfaction a person receives by performing a particular action.
are given by another person, typically a supervisor.
include pay raises and promotions.
are given to all people within an organization or a specific department.