Deck 6: Leadership Attributes

Question 1

In the context of the building blocks of skills,knowledge and experience are easier components to change than intelligence and personality traits.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Stress is often defined as the result of conflicts with superiors or the apprehension associated with performance evaluation.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Behavioral manifestations of personality traits are often exhibited with conscious thought rather than automatically.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Effective leaders tend to score high on neuroticism,extraversion,and agreeableness and low on conscientious and openness to experience.

Question 5

Strong situations that are governed by clearly specified rules,demands,and organizational policies maximize the effects that traits have on behavior.

Question 6

The Forer effect occurs when people give high accuracy ratings to descriptive statements that are personally flattering but so vague that they could apply to virtually anyone.

Question 7

Feeling leaders tend to analyze,criticize,and approach decisions impersonally and objectively.

Question 8

Research has shown that openness to experience is an important component of leadership effectiveness and seems particularly important at higher organizational levels or for success in overseas assignments.

Question 9

Most EQ researchers agree that emotional intelligence cannot be developed.

Question 10

The strength of the relationship between personality traits and leadership effectiveness is often inversely related to the relative strength of the situation.

Question 11

Leaders tend to have higher extraversion scores than nonleaders.

Question 12

Leaders who can empathize and get along with others are often more successful than those who cannot.

Question 13

Analytic intelligence is much more concerned with knowledge and experience than is practical intelligence.

Question 14

An advantage of the OCEAN model is that it is a useful method for profiling leaders.

Question 15

Leaders who score low in conscientiousness tend to be more spontaneous,creative,and impulsive.

Question 16

Smart but inexperienced leaders tend to be more effective in stressful situations than less intelligent,experienced leaders.

Question 17

Tests of divergent thinking usually have a single best answer,whereas tests of convergent thinking have many possible answers.

Question 18

Analytic intelligence is general problem-solving ability and can be assessed using standardized mental abilities tests.

Question 19

With respect to creative intelligence,perhaps the most important point leaders should remember is that their primary role is not so much to be creative themselves as to build an environment where others can be creative.

Question 20

Ability-based EQ training programs make extensive use of videos and role plays to help participants better recognize,exhibit,and regulate emotion.

Question 21

According to Myers and Myers,there are four basic preference dimensions in which people can differ.Identify a true statement about people exhibiting these dimensions.

A)Intuitive leaders tend to be practical,orderly,and down-to-earth decision makers.
B)Introverted leaders prefer to think things through and announce only final decisions.
C)Thinking leaders use their hearts to weigh the impact of any decision on people.
D)Judgers prefer to collect as much data as possible before making decisions and get nervous after the decisions are made.

Question 22

According to the Five Factor Model (FFM)or OCEAN model of personality,which of the following dimensions primarily involves behaviors that are highly likely to be exhibited in group settings and are generally concerned with getting ahead in life?

A)agreeableness
B)conscientiousness
C)extraversion
D)neuroticism

Question 23

Raymond scores high on practical intelligence and has extensive knowledge and experience in leading a pharmaceutical research team.He is likely to feel uncomfortable and unprepared when asked to organize a major fund-raising activity for a charitable institution.This example illustrates that practical intelligence is most likely

A)concerned with knowledge and experience.
B)the ability to produce work that is novel.
C)the ability to learn new information.
D)domain specific.

Question 24

Which of the following terms is most likely defined as the ability to intentionally pay attention to the present moment while letting go of judgment?

A)conscientiousness
B)mindfulness
C)assertiveness
D)mobilization

Question 25

Unlike individuals who score low in extraversion,individuals who score high in this dimension

A)generally prefer to work by themselves.
B)have relatively little interest in influencing or competing with others.
C)tend to take others' inputs into consideration when making decisions.
D)come across to others as decisive and opinionated.

Question 26

According to Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence,creative intelligence is

A)general problem-solving ability.
B)the ability to make accurate inferences with relatively unfamiliar information.
C)assessed using standardized mental abilities tests.
D)the ability to produce work that is both novel and useful.

Question 27

Which of the following theories explains the interesting relationships between leader intelligence and experience levels,and group performance in stressful versus nonstressful conditions?

A)the strategic contingencies theory
B)the hierarchical trait theory
C)the leader-member exchange theory
D)the cognitive resources theory

Question 28

According to Reuven Bar-On's model of emotional intelligence,reality testing,flexibility,and problem-solving relate to

A)general mood.
B)stress management.
C)interpersonal relationships.
D)adaptability.

Question 29

According to Myers and Myers's basic preference dimensions in which people can differ,the thinking-feeling dimension

A)is concerned with how people look at data.
B)is fundamentally concerned with where people get their energy.
C)describes the amount of information a leader needs before feeling comfortable making a decision.
D)is concerned with the considerations leaders prefer when making decisions.

Question 30

According to Goleman's conceptualization of emotional intelligence (EQ),the "change catalyst" attribute most likely corresponds to the ________ dimension of the OCEAN model.

A)extraversion
B)agreeableness
C)openness to experience
D)neuroticism

Question 31

According to the Five Factor Model (FFM)or OCEAN model of personality,which of the following statements is most likely true about agreeableness?

A)It essentially concerns one's need for approval.
B)It involves behaviors that are generally concerned with getting ahead in life.
C)It primarily concerns those behaviors related to people's approach to work.
D)It is primarily concerned with curiosity and innovative thinking.

Question 32

The ________ states that if one simply works hard and achieves superior results,then good things will happen.

A)constructionist approach
B)dual-process theory
C)just world hypothesis
D)heroic theory

Question 33

According to the Five Factor Model (FFM)or OCEAN model of personality,leaders who score high in openness to experience tend to

A)be tactical and practical.
B)be big-picture thinkers.
C)avoid taking a strategic approach to solving problems.
D)prefer doing things using tried-and-true ways.

Question 34

In the OCEAN model,the personality dimension that is concerned with curiosity,innovative thinking,and assimilating new information is known as

A)openness to experience.
B)extraversion.
C)conscientiousness.
D)neuroticism.

Question 35

Unlike leaders who score low in conscientiousness,those who score high in conscientiousness

A)rarely get into trouble.
B)tend to be more creative.
C)are highly spontaneous.
D)rarely prefer structure.

Question 36

Leaders who score low in neuroticism tend to

A)take mistakes personally.
B)lose their temper when stressed.
C)hide their emotions.
D)be moody.

Question 37

"I remain calm in pressure situations." This statement most likely corresponds to which of the following OCEAN personality dimensions?

A)openness to experience
B)neuroticism
C)extraversion
D)conscientiousness

Question 38

According to the Five Factor Model (FFM)or OCEAN model of personality,the dimension of neuroticism is most likely

A)concerned with curiosity,innovative thinking,and assimilating new information.
B)concerned with those behaviors related to people's approach to work.
C)concerned with how one gets along with,as opposed to gets ahead of,others.
D)concerned with how people react to stress,change,failure,or personal criticism.

Question 39

In the context of Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence,leaders and followers who possess high levels of analytic intelligence

A)fail to see connections between issues.
B)tend to be quick learners and do well in school.
C)are unable to make accurate assumptions with relatively unfamiliar information.
D)are primarily concerned with knowledge and experience.

Question 40

According to the OCEAN model,individuals who appear as insensitive,socially clueless,pessimistic,cold,and grumpy are most likely to score low in

A)leadership competence.
B)agreeableness.
C)neuroticism.
D)charisma.