Deck 13: Leading

Question 1

Charismatic leaders are willing to take personal risks in the name of their beliefs.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

All managers are leaders.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

There is a strong correlation between birth order and leadership skills.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Transformational leaders inspire followers through a clear mission,optimism,enthusiasm and emotional appeals.

Question 5

Leadership is more a function than a relationship.

Question 6

Several reviews of studies of gender differences in leadership have found many more differences than similarities between males and females.

Question 7

Leaders tend to have higher energy levels than non-leaders.

Question 8

Because of their position in the organization,managers have formal authority to reward and punish.

Question 9

Two hundred of the Fortune 500 companies are run by women.

Question 10

Leaders can often influence the behaviors of others without the use of reward or punishment.

Question 11

All leaders are managers.

Question 12

Managers often prefer hiring and promoting people who are similar to themselves.

Question 13

Strategies,resources,and good products are not enough to make an organization successful.

Question 14

A manager high in concern for production and low in concern for people would be considered a controlling leader.

Question 15

Weak or ineffective leadership depletes a firm's resources and erodes its competitive edge.

Question 16

Higher performing managers are more directive than facilitative.

Question 17

Charisma appears to be most influential when the environment has a high degree of certainty.

Question 18

Transformational leadership and transactional leadership complement each other.

Question 19

Accomplishing organizational goals requires both leadership and management.

Question 20

Although people tend to be more satisfied when working with people-oriented leaders,task performance is not necessarily better.

Question 21

LMX theory is more prescriptive then descriptive.

Question 22

Achievement oriented leadership increases subordinate confidence and the personal value of goal-directed effort.

Question 23

The leader match model proposes that a person's leadership style is part of who they are and can't be changed.

Question 24

Leaders can't lead if the followers refuse to follow.

Question 25

The core assumption of path-goal theory is that subordinates will be motivated if they think they can do their work and get a favorable outcome for doing so.

Question 26

Supportive leadership decreases the personal value of job-related effort.

Question 27

Transformational leaders are never charismatic.

Question 28

Participative leadership increases involvement with and commitment to organizational goals.

Question 29

Directive leadership reduces role ambiguity.

Question 30

Research has supported the idea that intrinsically satisfying work and task-provided performance feedback prevent a leader's supportive behaviors from making a difference in task performance.

Question 31

Unlike Fiedler,Hersey and Blanchard believed that successful leaders can and should adjust their styles based on follower maturity,or their readiness to perform a particular task or assignment.

Question 32

According to research,in-group members do have greater loyalty and higher performance than out-group members.

Question 33

Being an out-group member can lead to lower rewards,less autonomy,and less influence.

Question 34

It is necessary for leaders to treat all subordinates the same.

Question 35

Research has found that employees' perceptions of their supervisors' ethical leadership are negatively related to their willingness to report problems to management,job commitment,and satisfaction with their supervisor.

Question 36

Fiedler believed that leaders can adopt different styles in different situations.

Question 37

Level 5 leaders are humble and willing to take the blame for failure.

Question 38

If the goals,methods and performance standards of a task are clear,then it is more likely that leaders will be able to exert influence.

Question 39

Leaders who describe their least preferred coworker unfavorably (inefficient,gloomy,uncooperative)are considered "high LPC."

Question 40

The influence of the followers and the situation made the search for any "one best way to lead" futile.

Question 41

Which of the following is NOT one of the three contingencies of effective leadership?

A) leader
B) followers
C) situation
D) management style

Question 42

Which of the following is/are important in leadership?

A) communication
B) motivation
C) influence
D) all of these

Question 43

It is necessary to have an internet connection in order to use a CD-ROM.

Question 44

Management is a __________,whereas leadership is a __________.

A) function, relationship
B) relationship, function
C) job, career
D) career, job

Question 45

Because team members do not see each other regularly,opportunities to build trust are limited in virtual teams.

Question 46

Leaders seem to have higher ______________ than non-leaders.

A) energy levels
B) internal control orientation
C) emotional maturity
D) all of these

Question 47

Compared to e-leaders,traditional leaders must become more comfortable with developing,managing,and maintaining relationships without having direct personal control and oversight.

Question 48

Followers sometimes share the blame for the effects of damaging leaders.

Question 49

Leaders tends to have higher levels of ______________ than non-leaders.

A) intelligence
B) self-confidence
C) determination
D) all of these

Question 50

What term refers to guiding and influencing others to work willingly toward the leader's objectives?

A) power
B) management
C) leadership
D) ethics

Question 51

Because leaders depend on their followers for good information,one of the most important follower characteristics is a willingness to tell the truth.

Question 52

Who determines whether someone will be a leader?

A) the leader
B) followers
C) the manager
D) teachers

Question 53

Jim Sinegal wants to maintain the central role of __________ in his leading of Costco.

A) ethics
B) education
C) expansion
D) evaluation

Question 54

Anonymous commenting during meetings can encourage honest input.

Question 55

According to leadership experts Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus,"_________ controls,arranges,does things right; __________ unleashes energy,sets the vision so we do the right thing."

A) leadership management
B) management, leadership
C) power, motivation
D) motivation, power

Question 56

Which of the following is more closely associated with leadership than with management?

A) planning
B) evaluating
C) building trust
D) attaining goals

Question 57

Which of the following is more closely associated with management than with leadership?

A) building culture
B) motivating
C) acquiring resources
D) coaching

Question 58

The maximum markup at Costco is 15%.What does that mean?

A) customers never pay less than 15% more than Costco paid for the item
B) customers never pay more than 15% more than Costco paid for the item
C) the lowest sale price is 15% off the original price
D) customers always pay exactly 15% more than Costco paid for the item

Question 59

What term refers to a person's unchanging characteristics that predispose them to act in a certain way?

A) traits
B) states
C) moods
D) intelligence

Question 60

Like traditional leadership,e-leadership can be inspiring and transformative,even if it takes place through website postings,e-mail,or large-scale web-conferencing.

Question 61

Transformational leaders do which of the following?

A) give subordinates developmental work experiences
B) inspiring subordinates to do their best
C) demonstrate positive behaviors that followers want to emulate
D) all of these

Question 62

What term refers to leadership that inspires followers to adopt the values and goals of the leader and put aside their own self-interests for the good of the organization?

A) transactional leadership
B) transportational leadership
C) transformational leadership
D) transparent leadership

Question 63

What term refers to patterns of preferences inherent in organizations that create barriers?

A) institutional biases
B) stereotypes
C) attribution errors
D) rules

Question 64

__________ are generalizations people make to differentiate groups of people,such as believing that men are better leaders than women.

A) Leadership skills
B) Stereotypes
C) Task results
D) Motivations

Question 65

What range of numbers is represented on Blake and Mouton's Managerial Grid?

A) 1-10
B) 0-9
C) 0-10
D) 1-9

Question 66

____________ leadership can work well for short-term goals,whereas _____________ leadership is more effective for long-term goals and organizational change.

A) Ethical, charismatic
B) Charismatic, ethical
C) Transformational, transactional
D) Transactional, transformational

Question 67

On Blake and Mouton's Managerial Grid,what label reflects a leader's focus on efficiency,productivity,and goals when deciding how to best accomplish a task?

A) concern for production
B) concern for people
C) concern for progress
D) concern for professionalism

Question 68

What term refers to leaders who are idealized by followers who develop strong emotional attachments to them?

A) transformational
B) transactional
C) charismatic
D) ethical

Question 69

People frequently compare women to an ideal leadership style that favors __________ men.

A) democratic
B) autocratic
C) aristocratic
D) participative

Question 70

It is common for both men and women to view stereotypically masculine characteristics as ________,and stereotypically feminine characteristics as ________.

A) ethical, unethical
B) unethical, ethical
C) nonmanagerial, managerial
D) managerial, nonmanagerial

Question 71

Research suggests that males tend to punish subordinates __________ than women.

A) more harshly
B) less harshly
C) more often
D) less often

Question 72

Early leadership research focused on _______________ leadership,but today,researchers are devoting more time to understanding ______________ leadership.

A) transactional, transformational
B) transformational, transactional
C) charismatic, ethical
D) ethical, charismatic

Question 73

In the 1950s,Ralph Stogdill and his Ohio State University colleagues and Rensis Likert and his team at the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center identified what two dimensions of leadership style?

A) concern for task results and concern for people
B) concern for self and concern for others
C) interpersonal skills and intrapersonal skills
D) social intelligence and general intelligence

Question 74

What instrument was developed to measure the two dimensions of leadership style: concern for task results and concern for people?

A) The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire
B) The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
C) The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
D) The Beck Depression Inventory

Question 75

Because most managers are ________,they tend to prefer that other managers also be ________.

A) male
B) female
C) young
D) introverted

Question 76

Who developed the two-dimensional managerial grid?

A) Maxwell and Mae
B) Blake and Mouton
C) Whitacre and Lutz
D) Moore and Mill

Question 77

Charismatic leaders try to increase which of the following?

A) followers' commitment to ideological goals
B) followers' commitment to the leader
C) both of these
D) neither of these

Question 78

With ___________ leadership,employees comply because of contingent reinforcement,but with _____________ leadership,employees comply because they are personally committed to the leader's goals.

A) transformational, transactional
B) transactional, transformational
C) charismatic, ethical
D) ethical, charismatic

Question 79

What term refers to leadership based on a reciprocal exchange of something of value?

A) transactional leadership
B) transformational leadership
C) charismatic leadership
D) creative leadership?

Question 80

About how much of the work force is made up of women?

A) about 20%
B) about 30%
C) more than 45%
D) more than 65%