Deck 8: Leadership Behavior

Question 1

Role plays and videotape are used extensively during informal coaching sessions.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Leadership practitioners have a tendency to concentrate on coaching their solid or top followers.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

According to the Leadership Grid,1,1 leaders are the most successful in the workplace.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Personality traits,values or intelligence must be inferred from behavior.

Question 5

Leaders and followers use development plans as a road map for changing their own behaviors.

Question 6

The context and style of a leader's behavior are also factors that affect their ability to build teams.

Question 7

Which of these refers to how much a leader is friendly and supportive toward subordinates?

A)Goal emphasis
B)Consideration
C)Initiating structure
D)Work facilitation

Question 8

Instruments providing 360-degree feedback to managers are particularly useful for leadership development.

Question 9

There is a universal set of leader behaviors always associated with leadership success.

Question 10

Which of the following leadership dimensions were identified by the Ohio State Studies?

A)Concern and initiating communication
B)Consideration and initiating structure
C)Goal emphasis and interaction support
D)Work facilitation and assertiveness

Question 11

Most managers exhibiting derailment behavioral patterns are aware of the negative impact they have on others.

Question 12

Researchers at the University of Michigan considered job-centered and employee-centered behaviors to be at opposite ends of a single continuum of leadership behavior.

Question 13

Which of the following leadership questionnaires measured the extent to which leaders in industrial settings exhibited consideration and initiating structure behaviors?

A)LBDQ
B)LOQ
C)LBDQ-XII
D)SBDQ

Question 14

According to Hogan and Warrenfelz,the four major categories of competency models are interpersonal,intrapersonal,business and followership skills.

Question 15

Goal emphasis and work facilitation relate to which of the following leadership behavior dimensions?

A)Job-centered
B)Employee-centered
C)Coaching
D)Mentoring

Question 16

The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire was developed by Ohio State University researchers.

Question 17

A study of many firms reported that companies that used 360-degree feedback systems had a 10.6 percent increase in shareholder value.

Question 18

Leaders high in initiating structure engage in

A)Monitoring subordinates' performance levels
B)Speaking up for subordinates' interests
C)Caring about subordinates' personal situations
D)Showing appreciation for subordinates' work

Question 19

White peers and subordinates generally gave about the same level of ratings for both black and white peers and bosses.

Question 20

The three components of community leadership include mobilization,framing and building social capital.

Question 21

'Adequate organization performance is possible through balancing the necessity to get work out while maintaining morale of people at a satisfactory level.' In terms of the Leadership Grid,what leadership orientation does this signify?

A)Team management
B)Country Club management
C)Impoverished management
D)Middle-of-the-road management

Question 22

Competencies concerned with analyzing issues,making decisions,financial savvy and strategic thinking constitute the

A)Intrapersonal skills category
B)Leadership skills category
C)Interpersonal skills category
D)Business skills category

Question 23

The leadership competency of helping a group or community recognize and define its opportunities and issues in ways that result in effective action is

A)Framing
B)Building social capital
C)Mobilization
D)Interaction facilitation

Question 24

Building social capital

A)Helps a community decide what needs to be done
B)Is the power of relationships shared between individuals
C)Is engaging a critical mass to take action to achieve a specific outcome
D)Helps a group decide how something needs to be done

Question 25

The two dimensions of the Leadership Grid are

A)Communication and listening
B)Concern for people and concern for production
C)Known to others and known to oneself
D)Introversion-extroversion and thinking-perceiving

Question 26

Which of the following statements concerning 360-degree feedback systems is false?

A)Companies that used 360-degree feedback systems had a 10.6 percent decrease in shareholder value
B)Most 360-degree feedback systems are designed to make comparisons between people
C)360-degree feedback are data based and provide good development feedback
D)It provides insight into self-perceptions and others' perceptions of leadership skills

Question 27

Which of the following underlies the derailment pattern of the inability of managers to lead and build a team?

A)The presence of dark side traits
B)Inadequate distribution channels
C)Poor decisions concerning which products to develop
D)Lying about business results

Question 28

These skills and behaviors do not involve interacting with others and are among the most difficult to change.

A)Intrapersonal
B)Interpersonal
C)Leadership
D)Business

Question 29

Which of the following statements about 360-degree feedback systems is true?

A)360-degree feedback results affect behavioral change per se
B)360-degree feedback are the only sources of "how" feedback for leadership practitioners
C)360-degree feedback should be built around an organization's competency model
D)It is mandatory for all leaders to receive 360-degree feedback

Question 30

In general,researchers have reported that subordinates are more satisfied when

A)Leaders monitored results
B)Leaders set clear goals
C)Leaders exhibit a high level of consideration
D)Leaders explained what followers were to do

Question 31

What is cited as the most common reason for CEO failure?

A)Making poor decisions concerning which markets to pursue
B)Problems developing a vision or strategy for the company
C)The inability to meet earnings projections
D)Failure to keep promises,commitments or deadlines

Question 32

Which of the following is not a source for 360-degree feedback?

A)Peers
B)Self
C)Customers
D)Direct reports

Question 33

Mobilization is about

A)Allowing individuals to make choices about what they can purchase
B)Maintaining relationships that allow people to work together in a community across their differences
C)Helping a group recognize and define its opportunities and issues in ways that result in effective action
D)Strategic,planned purposeful activity to achieve clearly defined outcomes

Question 34

In terms of the Leadership Grid,leaders scoring 1,9 denotes

A)Low concern for people and high concern for production
B)High concern for people and production
C)High concern for people and low concern for production
D)Low concern for people and production

Question 35

Work facilitation behaviors deal with

A)Leaders acquiring and allocating resources
B)Leaders motivating subordinates to accomplish the task at hand
C)Leaders showing concern for subordinates
D)Leaders minimizing conflicts among followers

Question 36

Strategic differences with management and difficulty making strategic transitions are behaviors exhibited by derailed managers who

A)Have shown inability to develop or adapt to new bosses
B)Have shown inability to build and lead a team
C)Have failed to meet business objectives
D)Have problems with interpersonal relationships

Question 37

Derailed managers exhibiting the derailment pattern that has to do with an inability to build relationships with coworkers are characterized by which of the following?

A)Failure to staff effectively
B)Organizational isolation
C)Lack of hard work
D)Difficulty making strategic transitions

Question 38

Behaviors concerned with motivating subordinates to accomplish the task at hand are called

A)Interaction facilitation behaviors
B)Work facilitation behaviors
C)Goal emphasis behaviors
D)Leader support behaviors

Question 39

Community leaders

A)Have positional power
B)Can get tasks accomplished
C)Tend to have fewer resources
D)Can discipline followers who do not adhere to organizational norms

Question 40

As a difference between male-female patterns,females were more likely to derail because of

A)Their inflexibility
B)Their arrogance
C)Their abrasive interpersonal style
D)Their inability to deal with complex organizational issues

Question 41

What is framing and how does it help a community?

Question 42

In which step of informal coaching do leaders develop a coaching plan?

A)Shaping the environment
B)Growing skills
C)Inspire commitment
D)Promote persistence

Question 43

In this step of informal coaching,leaders determine what drives their followers and where they want to go with their careers.

A)Forging a partnership
B)Inspire commitment
C)Growing skills
D)Promote persistence

Question 44

Write a short note on the five steps of informal coaching.

Question 45

What is informal mentoring?

Question 46

In the step called promote persistence,

A)Followers use their prioritized development needs to create a development plan
B)Leaders help followers to transfer the skills to new environments
C)Leaders help followers to manage the mundane,day-to-day aspects of development
D)Leaders work closely with followers to analyze data to determine development needs

Question 47

What is managerial derailment? Briefly explain the 'inability to build relationships' theme in derailment research.

Question 48

This occurs when the organization assigns a relatively inexperienced but high-potential leader to one of the top executives in the company.

A)Informal coaching
B)Informal mentoring
C)Formal coaching
D)Formal mentoring

Question 49

Compare and contrast consideration and initiating structure.

Question 50

Formal coaching

A)Can and does occur anywhere in the organization
B)Takes place whenever a leader helps followers to change their behaviors
C)Involves any organizational standards that pertain to the follower's career goals
D)Begins with the manager's completion of an extensive battery of 360-degree feedback instruments

Question 51

Write a short note on the Leadership Grid.

Question 52

Informal coaching

A)Begins with the manager's completion of an extensive battery of personality instruments
B)Is used to diagnose why behavioral change is not occurring and what can be done about it
C)Is more effective for high-performing followers than for low-performing followers
D)Is a one-on-one relationship between the manager and the coach

Question 53

Seventy to eighty percent of the action steps in a development plan should be

A)Observation
B)Past experience
C)Job related
D)Acquiring new knowledge

Question 54

The insight component of the development pipeline concerned with

A)On-the-job experiences
B)Providing leaders accurate feedback on their strengths
C)Acquiring new knowledge and skills
D)Working on development goals that matter

Question 55

Which of the following statements concerning formal versus informal mentoring is true?

A)Formal mentoring programs are less effective than informal mentoring for protégé compensation and promotion
B)Informal mentoring programs have a difficult time replicating the strong emotional bonds found in formal programs
C)Most informal mentoring programs only last a year,whereas many formal mentoring relationships can last a lifetime
D)Oftentimes organizations implement informal mentoring programs to accelerate the development of female protégés

Question 56

What is community leadership? Give an example.

Question 57

Compare and contrast intrapersonal skills with interpersonal skills.

Question 58

Write a short note on the critical behavioral change question,'Do leaders have plans in place for changing targeted behaviors?'

Question 59

In comparing mentoring and coaching,which of the following would be true?

A)Mentoring may not target specific development needs
B)Mentoring guidance comes from the protégé's immediate supervisor
C)Coaching guidance comes from someone several leadership levels higher in the organization
D)Protégés often meet with their coaches to get a different perspective of the organization

Question 60

What are the important gender issues with 360-degree feedback?