Deck 7: Leadership Traits

Question 1

The Hogan Personality Inventory dimension of prudence relates to which FFM personality dimension?

A)Openness to experience
B)Agreeableness
C)Dependability
D)Adjustment

Answer 1

C

Question 2

"I remain calm in pressure situations." This behavioral aspect corresponds to which FFM personality dimension?

A)Openness to Experience
B)Adjustment
C)Dependability
D)Agreeableness

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The term "personality" reflects a simple description of the person in the eyes of others.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The dark-side traits are usually apparent when leaders are attending to their public image.

Question 5

The roots of the Great Man theory can be traced back to the early 1900s,when many leadership researchers and the popular press maintained that leaders and followers were essentially the same.

Question 6

Individuals higher in surgency

A)Prefer to work by themselves
B)Are not interested in competing with others
C)Have relatively little interest in influencing others
D)Appear self-confident

Question 7

All behavior is under conscious control.

Question 8

Teams with higher levels of cohesiveness are more creative than teams that do not get along.

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

Sigmund Freud believed that the intrapsychic tensions among the id,ego and _____ caused one to behave in characteristic ways even if the real motives behind the behaviors were unknown to the person.

A)Superego
B)Alter ego
C)Conscience
D)Mind

Question 14

Smart but inexperienced leaders were more effective in stressful situations than less intelligent,experienced leaders.

Question 15

These managerial types typically have lower scores on surgency trait measures.

A)Competent managers
B)In Name Only managers
C)Results Only managers
D)Cheerleaders

Question 16

Dependability is the best predictor of a leadership job offer after an interview and successful completion of an overseas leadership assignment.

Question 17

Thinking styles are not abilities per se,but are preferred ways for using the abilities one has.

Question 18

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

Question 19

Emotional intelligence can seldom be developed.

Question 20

The primary role of leaders is not so much to be creative themselves as to build an environment where others can be creative.

Question 21

Students in a school for the mentally challenged did very poorly on standardized tests yet consistently found ways to defeat the school's elaborate security system.In this situation the students possessed a relatively high level of

A)Social intelligence
B)Analytic intelligence
C)Practical intelligence
D)Creative intelligence

Question 22

Lower prudence,higher openness to experience and higher surgency scores are related to

A)Intrinsic motivation
B)Personality factors
C)Analytic intelligence
D)Environmental factors

Question 23

Which dark-side personality trait is often associated with extremely high dependability scores?

A)Excitable
B)Diligent
C)Skeptical
D)Colorful

Question 24

According to research done using the Hogan Personality Inventory,the best predictor of a leadership job offer after an interview and successful completion of an overseas leadership assignment is

A)Surgency
B)Agreeableness
C)Openness to experience
D)Dependability

Question 25

These managerial types have the highest adjustment scores.

A)Cheerleaders
B)Competent Managers
C)Results Only Managers
D)In Name Only Managers

Question 26

Leaders higher in adjustment tend to

A)Take mistakes personally
B)Become tense
C)Hide their emotions
D)Lose their temper when stressed

Question 27

Leaders and followers who possess higher levels of this type of intelligence tend to be quick learners and have the ability to make accurate deductions,assumptions and inferences with relatively unfamiliar information.

A)Analytic intelligence
B)Practical intelligence
C)Creative intelligence
D)Social intelligence

Question 28

Which of the following pertains to the amount of time people take to prepare for an interview and their overall job performance and satisfaction?

A)Openness to experience
B)Agreeableness
C)Surgency
D)Dependability

Question 29

These managerial types have gained insight into their dark-side traits and have found ways to negate their debilitating effects on followers.

A)Competent Managers
B)Results Only Managers
C)Cheerleaders
D)In Name Only Managers

Question 30

"Because of their narcissistic tendencies,these leaders often get quite a bit done.But their feelings of entitlement and inability to learn from experience often results in trails of bruised followers." Which dark-side personality trait is defined by this statement?

A)Bold
B)Excitable
C)Skeptical
D)Cautious

Question 31

What term relates to a component of creative intelligence that deals with people either preferring to modify what already exists or completely starting over with new solutions?

A)Thinking style
B)Environmental factors
C)Personality factors
D)Analytic intelligence

Question 32

Intelligence

A)Affects behavior equally across all situations
B)Is relatively easy to change
C)Can be inferred in different ways
D)Can be modified through education and experience

Question 33

The ability to produce work that is both novel and useful is called

A)Practical intelligence
B)Social intelligence
C)Analytic intelligence
D)Creative intelligence

Question 34

What is traditionally viewed as creativity and are skills that help people recognize novel patterns or connections?

A)Practical intelligence
B)Analytic intelligence
C)Synthetic ability
D)Intrinsic motivation

Question 35

A person's all-around effectiveness in activities directed by thought is called

A)Motivation
B)Intelligence
C)Perception
D)Cognition

Question 36

Dutiful leaders

A)Tend to blame others for their mistakes
B)Frustrate and disempower their staffs through micro-management
C)Deal with stress by sucking up to superiors
D)Are unconcerned about the welfare of their staff

Question 37

The personality dimension of openness to experience is also known as

A)Conscientiousness
B)Self-control
C)Intellectance
D)Empathy

Question 38

Most intelligence and aptitude tests are good examples of

A)Systems thinking
B)Convergent thinking
C)Picture thinking
D)Divergent thinking

Question 39

A leader who has a lot of knowledge and experience in leading a pharmaceutical research team may feel like a duck out of water when asked to lead a major fund-raising effort for a charitable institution.This example illustrates that practical intelligence

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

Question 40

In comparison with other managerial types,Competent Managers have

A)Moderate levels of dependability
B)Lower scores on surgency trait measures
C)Extremely high levels of agreeableness
D)Lower adjustment scores

Question 41

What are "dark" side personality traits and how might they come into play with college basketball coaches?

Question 42

"People like to have some sense of control over their work.Micro-managing staff will help to either create yea-sayers or cause people to mentally disengage from work." Which creativity killer does this statement exemplify?

A)Taking away all discretion and autonomy
B)Creating fragmented work schedules
C)Providing insufficient resources
D)Focus on short-term goals

Question 43

Write a short note on the seven components of creative intelligence.

Question 44

By discouraging cross-functional collaboration,leaders can help guarantee that

A)Focusing on only short-term outcomes will dampen team members' creativity
B)Team members will have little motivation to change the status quo
C)Team members will only offer up tried and true solutions to problems
D)The tighter the deadlines,the more likely that innovation will be reduced

Question 45

Summarize the bright side of personality.

Question 46

Contrast and compare adaptors and innovators.

Question 47

Which set of leaders will perform best under stressful conditions?

A)Leaders with less experience
B)Leaders with more experience
C)Leaders with less intelligence
D)Leaders with more intelligence

Question 48

Which theory explains the interesting relationships between leader intelligence and experience levels and group performance in stressful versus nonstressful conditions?

A)Strategic contingencies theory
B)Trait theory
C)Leader-member exchange theory
D)Cognitive resources theory

Question 49

Write a short note on the Five Factor Model of personality and explain the five personality dimensions.

Question 50

The FFM personality variable of dependability corresponds with which attribute of emotional intelligence according to Goleman?

A)Emotional awareness
B)Achievement
C)Understanding others
D)Self-control

Question 51

According to Goleman's conceptualization of EQ,the 'change catalyst' attribute corresponds to which FFM correlate?

A)Surgency
B)Agreeableness
C)Openness to experience
D)Adjustment

Question 52

Describe at least three major definitions of emotional intelligence.

Question 53

Explain the two meanings of personality.

Question 54

Reality testing,flexibility and problem-solving relate to

A)General mood
B)Stress management
C)Interpersonal relationships
D)Adaptability

Question 55

Creative people are most likely to focus on

A)The need to meet deadlines
B)Impressing others
C)Making money
D)Solving the problem at hand

Question 56

Self-control,trustworthiness,conscientiousness,adaptability and innovation correspond to

A)Self-awareness
B)Self-regulation
C)Motivation
D)Empathy

Question 57

How do dark-side traits have a bigger influence on performance for people in leadership versus followership roles?

Question 58

List and define the three aspects of the triarchic theory of intelligence.

Question 59

This is a measure of the ability model of emotional intelligence and asks subjects to recognize the emotions depicted in pictures,what moods might be helpful in certain social situations and so forth.

A)MSCEIT
B)Bar-On EQi
C)Emotional Competence Inventory
D)SASQ

Question 60

A(n)_____ is most likely to the highest level of analytic intelligence.

A)Supervisor
B)First-line manager
C)Executive
D)Middle manager

Question 61

What are the two major predictions made by the cognitive resources theory with respect to intelligence,experience,stress and group performance?