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

Question 1

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

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Monitor,disseminator,and spokesperson are the three informational leadership roles.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Effective leaders influence followers to accomplish shared objectives.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The interpersonal leadership roles include figurehead,leader,and monitor.

Question 5

Knowing how to lead and developing leadership skills will make you a better leader and a better follower.

Question 6

Leaders perform the disseminator role when they send information to others in the organizational unit.

Question 7

Spokesperson is a decisional role.

Question 8

Serving on committees with members from outside the organizational unit is an example of a figurehead role.

Question 9

Time management priorities are the responsibility of a monitor.

Question 10

Leaders tend to be born with some leadership ability and develop that ability over time.

Question 11

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

Question 12

Research indicates that leadership success is associated with being a hard-nosed,tough manager.

Question 13

Leadership is the influencing process between leaders and followers to achieve organizational objectives through change.

Question 14

Successful middle-level managers have a more balanced need for all three managerial leadership skills than either top-level or first-level managers.

Question 15

Of the three managerial leadership skills,successful top-level managers have a greater need for interpersonal and technical skills than either middle-level or first-level managers.

Question 16

Figurehead is an interpersonal role.

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

Leadership is the process of a leader communicating ideas,gaining acceptance of them,and motivating followers to support and implement the ideas through change.

Question 20

The three levels of analysis of leadership theory are individual,group,and organizational.

Question 21

Integrative leadership theories attempt to combine the trait,behavioral,and contingency theories to explain successful,influencing leader-follower relationships.

Question 22

The overarching paradigm has shifted from management to leadership.

Question 23

The contingency theory paradigm emphasizes the importance of situational factors.

Question 24

Interpersonal skills involve critical thinking,using a rational process,analyzing alternatives,and attempting to maximize positive outcomes for the organization.

Question 25

The first step to leadership development is self-awareness of leadership competencies.

Question 26

Successful managers typically use an autocratic form of leadership.

Question 27

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

Question 28

Based on the definition of leadership,leaders only influence followers because followers cannot influence leaders.

Question 29

Behavioral leadership theories attempt to explain the appropriate leadership style based on the leader,followers,and situation.

Question 30

Individual and group performance are based on organizational performance.

Question 31

By the 1950s,most of the leadership research had changed its paradigm,going from trait theory to focusing on what the leader actually did on the job.

Question 32

Effective leaders keep their systems and strategies the same year after year.

Question 33

Mintzberg's ten managerial roles are an example of contingency leadership theory.

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

Contingency leadership theory attempts to combine the trait and behavioral theories to explain successful,influencing leader-follower relationships.

Question 39

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

Question 40

There is no universal definition of leadership.

Question 41

Which of the following is one of Mintzberg's informational leadership roles?

A)Negotiator.
B)Liaison.
C)Monitor.
D)Resource-allocator.

Question 42

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

Question 43

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 ____.

A)disseminator
B)figurehead
C)liaison
D)resource-allocator

Question 44

Leadership trait theories attempt to explain distinctive characteristics accounting for leadership effectiveness.

Question 45

____ is the process of a leader communicating ideas,gaining acceptance of them,and motivating followers to support and implement the ideas through change.

A)Leadership
B)Influencing
C)Management
D)Guidance

Question 46

Leaders perform the ____ role when they represent the organization or department in legal,social,ceremonial,and symbolic activities.

A)figurehead
B)leader
C)liaison
D)negotiator

Question 47

Group process theories focus on how a leader contributes to group effectiveness.

Question 48

There is an overlap between skills and roles because leaders need the competencies (knowledge,skills,and ability - KSAs)to enact the managerial roles.

Question 49

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

A)A manager always has the ability to influence others; a leader may not.
B)A manager has a formal title and authority.
C)A leader may either be a manager or a nonmanager.
D)All managers perform four major functions: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.

Question 50

Most employees are promoted to their first management position primarily because of their ____ skills.

A)interpersonal
B)team-building
C)decision-making
D)technical

Question 51

Which of the following is an example of a figurehead role?

A)Serving on committees with members from outside the organizational unit.
B)Answering letters.
C)Signing official documents.
D)Scheduling when employees will use material and equipment.

Question 52

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.

A)interpersonal
B)team-building
C)decision-making
D)technical

Question 53

According to Mintzberg's managerial roles,signing official documents is the activity of a person who is in what role?

A)Leader
B)Liaison
C)Negotiator
D)Figurehead

Question 54

The leader-follower relationship represents the influence:

A)of the leader on the follower.
B)of the follower on the leader.
C)of the leader on the group.
D)between the leader and the follower.

Question 55

Which of the following is NOT one of Mintzberg's interpersonal leadership roles?

A)Figurehead
B)Entrepreneur
C)Leader
D)Liaison

Question 56

Leadership theories have practical value because they are used to identify unsuitable leaders.

Question 57

Which of the following is a managerial role category?

A)Interpersonal
B)Intrapersonal
C)Institutional
D)Integrative

Question 58

Successful leaders need these three managerial leadership skills:

A)technical, intrapersonal, and decision-making.
B)planning, decision-making, and organizing.
C)decision-making, interpersonal, and technical.
D)leading, planning, and decision-making.

Question 59

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

A)influence
B)leaders-followers
C)change
D)personality

Question 60

You only need one skill to an effective decision-maker,decisiveness.

Question 61

Taking corrective action when necessary,allocating resources,and negotiating routine and nonroutine transactions are all examples of Mintzberg's __________ managerial role category.

A)conceptual
B)informational
C)decisional
D)interpersonal

Question 62

The three levels of analysis of leadership theory are:

A)individual, group, and organizational.
B)team, group, and organizational.
C)leader, group, and organizational.
D)interpersonal, leader, and group.

Question 63

For Henry Mintzberg,a leader handling a disturbance is illustrative of__________.

A)a seeking role.
B)a negotiator role.
C)a conflict of interest role.
D)a decisional role.

Question 64

Levels of analysis constitute:

A)a useful way of classifying leadership theory.
B)the most common approach to problem solving in organizations.
C)Mintzberg's most lasting contribution to management theory.
D)a way to better understand, predict, and control successful leadership.

Question 65

Leadership theory classifications include all of the following EXCEPT:

A)behavioral.
B)integrative.
C)contingency.
D)individual.

Question 66

The leadership paradigm that assumes leaders are born,not made,is ____ theory.

A)trait
B)behavioral
C)integrative
D)contingency

Question 67

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

A)Entrepreneur
B)Interpersonal
C)Resource-allocator
D)Negotiator

Question 68

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

A)autocratic.
B)primarily male.
C)born, not made.
D)also managers.

Question 69

____ and ____ leadership theories are also called universal theories.

A)Contingency; integrative
B)Trait; behavioral
C)Behavioral; contingency
D)Trait; integrative

Question 70

A successful sales manager was promoted to being CEO of a large conglomerate.Shortly afterward,the manager decided that her style of leadership was inappropriate,and altered the way that she practiced leading.This is an example of:

A)contingency leadership.
B)performing the figurehead role.
C)organizational learning.
D)influencing.

Question 71

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

A)individual.
B)group.
C)behavioral.
D)organizational.

Question 72

Contingency leadership theories attempt to explain the appropriate leadership style based on the:

A)leader, followers, and situation.
B)leader, manager, and subordinates.
C)leader, mentor, and entrepreneur.
D)individual, group, and situation.

Question 73

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

A)The individual level does not impact the group level.
B)Group process theories focus on how a leader contributes to group effectiveness.
C)The individual level forms the base of the levels.
D)Individuals and teams contribute to organizational success.

Question 74

Behavioral leadership theories attempt to explain:

A)distinctive characteristics accounting for leadership effectiveness.
B)successful, influencing leader-follower relationships.
C)distinctive styles used by effective leaders.
D)the appropriate leadership style based on the leader, follower, and situation.

Question 75

The ____ level of analysis can also be called the dyadic process.

A)group
B)individual
C)organizational
D)executive

Question 76

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

A)individual performance affect group and organizational performance.
B)group performance affect organizational performance.
C)group and organizational performance affect the performance of the individual.
D)neither the group nor organizational performance affect individual performance.

Question 77

Mintzberg's ten managerial roles is an example of:

A)group level of analysis.
B)organizational level of analysis.
C)behavioral leadership theory.
D)a leadership paradigm.

Question 78

The individual level of analysis which focuses on the leader's relationship with individual followers is also called the ____ process.

A)group
B)dyadic
C)organizational
D)conceptual

Question 79

The ____ leadership theory paradigm emphasizes the importance of situational factors.

A)trait
B)behavioral
C)contingency
D)integrative

Question 80

Which of the following is an example of a spokesperson role?

A)Reporting information to the government.
B)Attending professional/trade association meetings.
C)Visiting competitor facilities.
D)Purchasing new equipment.