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

Organizational performance in the long run depends on: A) effectively adapting to the environment. B) acquiring the necessary resources to survive. C) whether the organizational uses an effective transformation process to produce its products and services. D) all of the answers are correct

Which of the following is one of Mintzberg's the informational leadership roles, which is becoming increasingly important because of rapid technological changes?

Organizational performance, in the long run, depends on maintaining the status quo regardless of what changes occur in the external environment.

____ and ____ leadership theories are also called universal theories.

List and define the decisional managerial leadership roles.

The contingency theory paradigm emphasizes the importance of situational factors.

A leadership theory is a shared mindset that represents a fundamental way of thinking about, perceiving, studying, researching, and understanding leadership.

Evidence-based management (EBM) is an application of:

The qualities needed for effective leadership are the same as those needed to be an effective follower.

The manager is planning a meeting that he or she will be conducting with employees tomorrow. Identify the behavior of planning and conducting the meeting by its leadership role.

Spokesperson is a decisional role.

Early leadership theories were based on the assumption that leaders are made, not born.

If a person is not interested and not willing to be in charge, he or she is still well-suited to be a leader.

The interrelationship among the levels of leadership analysis is true for all the following EXCEPT:

List the ten managerial roles based on their three categories.

For Henry Mintzberg, the way that a leader handles a disturbance is characterized:

Which of the following statements regarding managers and leaders is NOT true?

Of the three managerial leadership skills that all leaders need to be successful and middle-level managers in an organization need to have a balanced need for all three skills.

Your leader has asked you to design new performance evaluation system. Designing the system is example of which of Mintzberg's managerial roles?

The key elements of leadership include all of the following EXCEPT: