Exam 1: Who Is a Leader and What Skills Do Leaders Need

Some people say the hard skills (finance, quantitative analysis) are more important for managers than soft skills (developing relationships, leadership), and some say the opposite is true. What is your view?

The eclectic approach to leadership theory, which utilizes and combines insights from previous approaches, is:

Effective leaders influence followers to think not only of their own interests but also of the interest of the organization through a shared vision.

If you are a manager, then you are an effective leader.

To be a successful leader, you need three managerial leadership skills, one of which is ____ skill, which involves the ability to use methods and techniques to perform a task.

Give one job example of the specific behavior you or some other leader displayed when performing the figurehead, leader, and liaison roles. For each of the three roles, be sure to identify the leader as you or another, the role by its name, and the specific behavior.

Behavioral leadership theories attempt to explain:

Much of the current research at the ____ level focuses on how top level managers can influence organizational performance. A) group B) individual C) organizational D) conceptual E) none of the answers are correct

Three managerial leadership skills that all leaders need to be successful are

The three levels of analysis of leadership theory include all of the following EXCEPT:

Should leadership courses focus on teaching students about leadership or on teaching students to be leaders?

The group level of analysis of leadership theory can also be called the dyadic process.

The speaker at a Rotary Club meeting asked for a PowerPoint setup. However, it is not set up. The president of the Rotary Club is dealing with this mishap. Identify the behavior by its leadership role.

The manager of production consistently goes to lunch and eats with managers from marketing, human resources, finance, and others to find out what is going on throughout the company. Identify the behavior by its leadership role.

Discuss the interrelationships between trait and behavioral leadership theories and contingency theories.

List and define the decisional managerial leadership roles.

Describe the major similarity and difference between the trait and behavioral leadership theories.

A manager is attending a company workshop called Normative Leadership to improve his effectiveness as a manager when dealing with different employees. This workshop best illustrates which leadership theory paradigm?

There is a universal list of traits that all successful leaders possess.

Discuss the interrelationships between trait and behavioral leadership theories and contingency theories.