Deck 15: Leadership and Trust

Question 1

Having leadership traits alone is not useful for identifying who is likely to be a leader.

Answer 1

True
Explanation: Leadership traits have been shown to explain why certain individuals are effective leaders, but they do not explain who is likely to be a leader and who is not.

Question 2

Ideally, all managers should not be leaders.

Answer 2

False
Explanation: Leadership is one of the four basic functions of a manager, so all managers in one way or another should take on the role of leadership.

Question 3

Research has shown a distinct set of traits that distinguishes leaders from nonleaders.

Answer 3

False
Explanation: No consistent set of traits has ever been found that can identify a potential leader.

Question 4

The Michigan studies suggested that the most successful leaders were production oriented.

Question 5

Fiedler's model proposed that leadership success was determined by matching leadership style to situation.

Question 6

Fiedler concluded that task-oriented leaders tended to perform better in favorable situations and worse in unfavorable situations.

Question 7

Trait research has given managers the ability to pick out leaders from the group.

Question 8

A major goal of behavioral leadership studies is to find ways to train people to be leaders.

Question 9

The Ohio State studies suggested that leaders who were high in structure and low in consideration were most successful.

Question 10

Trait theories of leadership focus on how leaders interact with their followers.

Question 11

Situational leadership theory (SLT) states that an R1 worker who is unable and unwilling to perform a task responds best to a telling leadership style.

Question 12

The behavioral theories of leadership became dominant around the early 1900s.

Question 13

A high LPC score indicates that a worker is productivity oriented.

Question 14

Fiedler's contingency model focused on having employees describe their ideal coworker.

Question 15

Leadership identifies a process while leader identifies a person.

Question 16

Fiedler concluded that relationship-oriented leaders seemed to perform better in highly unfavorable situations.

Question 17

A leader who ranks 9,1 in the managerial grid would have more concern for people than production.

Question 18

A leader is someone who has managerial authority and can influence others.

Question 19

The behavioral theories of leadership were developed in response to the failings of the trait theory to adequately explain and predict leadership.

Question 20

The big problem with the managerial grid is that it doesn't tell how management styles work in different situations.

Question 21

Transformational leadership and charismatic leadership are identical.

Question 22

Vroom and Yetton's leader-participation model suggests that leadership research should focus on the situation rather than the leader.

Question 23

A successful visionary leader "jump-starts" the future.

Question 24

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the best predictor of who will emerge as a leader.

Question 25

Trust is the belief in the integrity, character, and ability of a leader.

Question 26

Robert House's path-goal theory maintains that an effective leader clears the path for a follower to the follower's goal.

Question 27

Experts state that 85 percent of all managers are not natural team leaders.

Question 28

Of the five dimensions that make up the concept of trust, loyalty seems to be the most critical.

Question 29

A transactional leadership style is not related to a transformational style.

Question 30

Team leadership is becoming less important in today's world because teams don't need leaders.

Question 31

Charismatic and visionary leadership are the same thing.

Question 32

Since charisma is an inborn trait, no efforts have ever been made to train people to be charismatic.

Question 33

One reason that empowerment is important in today's business climate is that managers today tend to have smaller spans of control than managers of the past.

Question 34

Path-goal theory states that a participative leadership style works best when tasks are highly structured.

Question 35

In different countries, the most universal aspects of leadership seem to be elements of transactional leadership.

Question 36

One specific role of team leadership is that team leaders are troubleshooters.

Question 37

In contrast to Fiedler, path-goal theory assumes that leaders assume a single, permanent leadership style.

Question 38

Path-goal theory states that a directive leadership style works best when tasks are ambiguous.

Question 39

Situational leadership theory (SLT) states that an R3 worker who is able but unwilling to perform a task responds best to a selling leadership style.

Question 40

One of the keys to being a good team leader is to know when to leave a team alone.

Question 41

The most successful early trait theories focused on ________.

A) traits of famous leaders
B) traits of followers
C) traits associated with leadership
D) traits that distinguish leaders from nonleaders

Question 42

In the Ohio State studies, ________ refers to how strict a leader's standards are.

A) independent dimensions
B) comprehensive structure
C) initiating structure
D) consideration

Question 43

A high-high leader in the Ohio State studies achieved the highest ratings with respect to ________.

A) both employee performance and satisfaction
B) employee performance only
C) employee satisfaction only
D) employee performance for routine tasks only

Question 44

The University of Iowa studies indicated that this was the most successful leadership style.

A) autocratic
B) laissez-faire
C) combination of autocratic and laissez-faire
D) democratic

Question 45

A democratic participative leader ________.

A) seeks input and shares the final decision
B) shares the final decision without input
C) makes the final decision without input
D) seeks input but makes the final decision by oneself

Question 46

The behavioral theories of leadership began around this time.

A) 1900-1920
B) 1920-1940
C) 1940-1960
D) 1960-1980

Question 47

Monica's boss allows her to make any decision she thinks is important on the spot without consulting anyone. Monica's boss has this kind of leadership style.

A) laissez-faire style
B) autocratic style
C) democratic style
D) hands-on style

Question 48

If a trait theory of leadership were true, then all leaders would possess ________.

A) charisma
B) the same traits
C) different traits
D) seven traits

Question 49

A sizeable majority of American employees trust the leaders of the companies they work for.

Question 50

Early leadership trait research looked to find characteristics that might ________.

A) distinguish ordinary leaders from great leaders
B) define charisma
C) identify the physical traits of leaders
D) differentiate leaders from nonleaders

Question 51

Behavioral theories of leadership focused on ________.

A) who effective leaders were
B) what characteristics effective leaders had
C) how to identify effective leaders
D) what effective leaders did

Question 52

The promise of behavioral theories of leadership held that this would be possible.

A) picking a leader out of crowd
B) being able to train a person to be leader
C) explaining why successful leaders were successful
D) eliminating ineffective leaders

Question 53

Jared's boss encourages employees to participate in the decision-making process but does not give them complete freedom to do as they like. She has this kind of leadership style.

A) monarchial
B) autocratic
C) laissez-faire
D) democratic

Question 54

The University of Iowa studies discussed all of the following leadership styles EXCEPT ________ leadership.

A) laissez-faire
B) democratic
C) benevolent
D) autocratic

Question 55

Which leadership style tends to centralize authority and make unilateral decisions?

A) cultural style
B) autocratic style
C) democratic style
D) laissez-faire style

Question 56

In the Ohio State studies, ________ refers to how much mutual trust exists between employees and leaders.

A) consideration of limitations
B) consideration
C) initiating structure
D) initiating ideas

Question 57

Trait theory helps explain why ________.

A) some people are leaders
B) some people are not leaders
C) successful leaders are effective
D) leadership involves extraversion

Question 58

Leaders are ________.

A) individual people, while leadership is a process
B) the first step in the leadership process
C) individual people who study the leadership process.
D) the final step in the leadership process.

Question 59

A democratic consultative leader ________.

A) seeks input and shares the final decision
B) makes the final decision without input
C) seeks input but makes the final decision by oneself
D) shares the final decision without input

Question 60

Because leading is one of the four basic managerial functions, ________ leaders.

A) all managers are
B) all managers should be
C) some managers are
D) some managers should be

Question 61

Fiedler concluded that task-oriented leaders performed best when the situation was ________.

A) highly favorable
B) highly unfavorable
C) either highly favorable or highly unfavorable
D) moderately favorable or moderately unfavorable

Question 62

Fiedler assumed a person's leadership style ________.

A) is contingent on the situation
B) is variable
C) evolves over time
D) is fixed

Question 63

________ is defined in situational leadership theory (SLT) as a high task, low relationship leadership role.

A) Telling
B) Selling
C) Participating
D) Delegating

Question 64

A major criticism of Fiedler's work stated that it failed to recognize that effective leaders ________.

A) are always task oriented
B) can change leadership styles
C) cannot change leadership styles
D) are always relationship oriented

Question 65

The key to the Fiedler contingency model of leadership is to match ________.

A) leader and follower
B) leader and leadership style
C) leadership style and follower
D) leadership style and situation

Question 66

According to the University of Michigan studies, leaders who were ________ were associated with higher group productivity and higher job satisfaction.

A) employee oriented
B) initiating structure
C) considerate
D) production oriented

Question 67

Jobs in a firm are quite informal. Workers are versatile and switch tasks and responsibilities depending on the situation. In Fiedler's model, this firm would be said to have ________.

A) good leader-member relations
B) high position power
C) high task structure
D) low task structure

Question 68

Fiedler's LPC ratings concluded that leaders were either ________.

A) positive or negative
B) task oriented or trusting
C) relationship oriented or people oriented
D) task oriented or relationship oriented

Question 69

What does Fiedler's least-preferred coworker questionnaire measure?

A) the most common leadership style among all leaders
B) leadership style of respondents who took the test
C) the most effective leadership style
D) the least effective leadership style

Question 70

The ________ dimension reflects the degree of trust and respect subordinates had for their leader in Fiedler's model.

A) leader-member relations
B) position power
C) task structure
D) effectiveness

Question 71

Estéban was rated a 5,8 on the managerial grid. A good way to describe Estéban is ________.

A) high in concern for both people and production
B) high in concern for people, low in concern for production
C) high in concern for people, moderate in concern for production
D) low in concern for people, moderate in concern for production

Question 72

Fiedler concluded that relationship-oriented leaders performed best when the situation was ________.

A) highly favorable
B) highly unfavorable
C) either highly favorable or highly unfavorable
D) moderately favorable or moderately unfavorable

Question 73

A leader who provides maximum supportive behavior and a great deal of explicit instructions for how to carry out a task is assuming this SLT role.

A) telling
B) selling
C) participating
D) delegating

Question 74

The Ohio State studies indicated that leaders who were high in consideration performed ________.

A) best in all situations
B) best when employee tasks were routine
C) worst when employee tasks were routine
D) best when employee tasks were nonroutine

Question 75

Your boss has total control over hiring, firing, and promotions in your department. He has ________.

A) low position power
B) high position power
C) high task structure
D) low task structure

Question 76

Which description best characterizes a 9,1 leadership style on the managerial grid?

A) impoverished management
B) task management
C) middle-of-the-road management
D) country club management

Question 77

Which quadrant of the managerial grid generally identifies the most successful leaders?

A) top left
B) bottom left
C) bottom right
D) top right

Question 78

The Ohio State studies indicated that leaders who were high in initiating structure received ________.

A) the highest employee ratings
B) the lowest employee ratings
C) the same employee ratings as leaders who were high in consideration
D) below-average employee ratings

Question 79

On the managerial grid, a leader who is high in both concern for people and concern for production would rate ________.

A) 1,1
B) 9,1
C) 5,5
D) 9,9

Question 80

In the situational leadership theory (SLT), readiness is defined as ________ to perform a task.

A) the ability
B) the willingness
C) both the ability and willingness
D) the motivation one has