Exam 4: Leadership and the Project Manager

Pettersen's study of project managers found that most do not have the capacity to exercise power that derives from formal positional authority and therefore they must develop:

Which of these duties is more reflective of a leader's tasks?

Which of the following is a traditional duty of a project champion?

What is emotional intelligence and why is it important for a project leader to possess?

A project manager must be able to shift temporal orientation from past,to present,to future.

Which of these behaviors is BEST for managing an intercultural project team?

The group maintenance behavior of gatekeeping helps to:

Much research has been published regarding the important characteristics of effective leaders.What are five traits that surveys have found to be important and which of your five is most important?

Which of these behaviors is BEST for managing an intercultural project team?

Which of the following is a non-traditional role of a project champion?

The project management pearl of wisdom that declares,"If they know nothing of what you are doing,they assume you are doing nothing," means that:

An entrepreneur type of project champion is the source of the idea and also the main sponsor.

The task-oriented behavior of summarizing accomplishes which specific outcome?

A champion that is an engineer,scientist,or similar person who is the driving force behind an idea is termed a(n):

One reason projects are initially underfunded is because their requirements are sometimes deliberately understated.

For the project manager,leadership is:

Among the essential abilities for effective project managers identified by a survey of 58 firms on their project management practices and skills was:

A good starting point for matching employees to project work would be:

Tim slapped together his first web page and proudly showed it to all his colleagues,pointing out what he thought were obvious and overwhelming advantages in simplicity and portability.His championing of web pages that he had read about in a trade journal ultimately shamed everyone else into adopting a web-based approach for all communication and cemented his status as a true:

Leadership may be part of a manager's job but other managerial roles are not necessarily part of a leader's job.