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

A manager is determining the priority of orders to be filled next week.Is this manager using technical skills,interpersonal skills or decision-making skills?  

Should leadership be the manager's job,or should leadership be a shared process?

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

The overarching paradigm has shifted from management to leadership.

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the levels of analysis of leadership theory?

Decision-making skills are based on the ability to conceptualize situations and select alternatives to solve problems and take advantage of opportunities.

Figurehead is an interpersonal role.

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

Give one job example of the specific behavior you or some other leader performed when fulfilling the entrepreneur,disturbance-handler,resource-allocator,and negotiator roles.For each of the four roles,be sure to identify the leader as you or another,the role by its name,and the specific behavior.

Taking advantage of followers for personal gain is a part of leadership.

Out of Henry Mintzberg's ten managerial roles,the leader role is the most important.

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

Relationships are critical to leadership success,and they are built on interpersonal skills.

Select a manager,preferably one who is or was your boss,and state the specific management skills he (or she)uses(used)on the job.

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?

Recall a present or past job.Were you both a leader and a follower? Explain.

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

In your position,you serve on committees with people from outside of your organizational units and attend professional meetings.These are expectations for Mintzberg's interpersonal role of ____.

In examining differences between managers and leaders,leaders

Early leadership studies were based on the assumption that leaders are: