M: Organizational Behavior 2nd Edition by Steven McShane, Mary Von Glinow

Exercise 140

When people have leadership prototypes, they:
A) attribute the actions of leaders to external causes rather than internal attributes.
B) give leaders more credit or blame than they are due because of our need to believe that life's events are caused mainly by human agents.
C) believe that effective leaders should concentrate on increasing organizational effectiveness rather than other activities.
D) believe that leaders are effective only if they behave consistently with their own preconceptions of how an effective leader should act.
E) tend to observe the leader's performance rather than physical features and other traits.