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Chapter 1 Test Midterm Leadership
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Management
Undergraduate 3
04/16/2014

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Leadership is the influenceing process of leaders and followers to achieve organizational objectives through change.
Definition
True.
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There are managers who are not effective leaders.
Definition
True.
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Good followers are considered "you people."
Definition
False.
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The qualities needed for effective leadership are the same as those needed to be an effective follower.
Definition
True.
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Leadership is the process of a leader communicating ideas, gaining acceptance of them, and motivating followers to support and implement the ideas through change.
Definition
False.
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Effective leaders influence followers to think not only for their own interests but also of the interest of the organization through a shared vision.
Definition
True.
Term
Taking advantage of followers for personal gain is part of leadership.
Definition
False.
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Leaders are born, not made.
Definition
True.
Term
A role is a set of expectations of how a person will behave to perform a job.
Definition
True.
Term
The interpersonal leadership roles include figurehead, leader, and monitor.
Definition
False.
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Figurehead is an interpersonal role.
Definition
True.
Term
Serving on committees with members from outside the organizational unit is an example of a figurehead role.
Definition
False.
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Monitor, dissemination, and spokesperson are the three informational leadership roles.
Definition
True.
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Spokesperson is a decisional role.
Definition
False.
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Leaders perform a disseminator role when they send information to others in the organizational unit.
Definition
True.
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Time management priorities are the responsibility of a monitor.
Definition
False.
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The three levels of analysis of leadership theory are individual, group, and organizational.
Definition
True.
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The group level of analysis of leadership theory can also be called the dyadic process.
Definition
False.
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Individual and group performance are based on organizational performance.
Definition
False.
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The group-level approach provides a better understanding of leadership effectiveness than the individual.
Definition
True.
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A leadership theory is a shared mindset that represents a fundamental way of thinking about, perceiving, studying, researching, and understanding leadership.
Definition
False.
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Early leadership theories were based in the assumption that leaders are made, not born.
Definition
False.
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There is a universal list of traits that all successful leaders possess.
Definition
False.
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By the 1950's, most of the leadership research had changed its paradigm going from trait theory to focusing on what the leader actually did on the job.
Definition
True.
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Behavioral leadership theories attempt to explain the appropriate leadership style based on the leader, followers, and situation.
Definition
False.
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Mintzburg's ten managerial roles are an example of contingency leadership theory.
Definition
False.
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Contingency leadership theories attempt to combine the trait and behavioral theories to explain successful, influencing leader-follower relationships.
Definition
False.
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The contingency theory paradigm emphasizes the importance of situational factors.
Definition
True.
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Integrative leadership theories attempt to combine the trait, behavioral, and contingency theories to explain successful, influencing leader-follower relationships.
Definition
True.
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The overarching paradigm has shifted from management to leadership.
Definition
True.
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Successful managers typically use an autocratic form of leadership.
Definition
False.
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The key elements of leadership include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. influence.
b. leaders-followers.
c. change.
d. personality.
Definition
d. personality.
Term
The leader-follower relationship represents the influence:
a. of the leader on the follower.
b. of the follower on the leader.
c. of the leader on the group.
d. between the leader and the follower.
Definition
d. between the leader and the follower.
Term
Which of the following statements regarding leaders and managers is NOT true?
a. A manager always has the ability to influence others; a leader may not.
b. A manager has a formal title and authority.
c. A leader may either be a manager or a nonmanager.
d. All managers perform four major functions: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
Definition
a. A manager always has the ability to influence others; a leader may not.
Term
_is the process of a leader communicating ideas, gaining acceptance of them, and motivating followers to support and implement the ideas through change.
a. Leadership
b. Influence
c. Management
d. Guidance
Definition
b. Influence
Term
Which of the following is NOT a managerial role category?
a. interpersonal
b. intrapersonal
c. informational
d. decisional
Definition
b. intrapersonal
Term
Which of the following is NOT one of Mintzberg's interpersonal leadership roles?
a. figurehead
b. entrepreneur
c. leader
d. liaison
Definition
b. entrepreneur
Term
Leaders perform the _ role when they represent the organization or department in legal, social, ceremonial, and symbolic activities.
a. figurehead
b. leader
c. liaison
d. negotiator
Definition
a. figurehead
Term
Which of the following is an example of a figurehead role?
a. serving on committees with members from outside the organizational unit.
b. answering letters
c. signing official documents
d. scheduling when employees will use material and equipment
Definition
c. signing official documents
Term
_ behavior includes networking to develop relationships and gain information and favors.
a. Disseminator
b. Figurehead
c. Liaison
d. Resource-allocator
Definition
c. Liaison
Term
Which of the following is one of the informational leadership roles?
a. negotiator
b. liaison
c. monitor
d. resource-allocator
Definition
c. monitor
Term
Which of the following is an example of a spokesperson role?
a. reporting information to the government
b. attending professional/trade association meetings
c. entertaining clients or customers as official representatives
d. purchasing new equipment
Definition
a. reporting information to the government
Term
The decisional leadership roles include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. entrepreneur.
b. disturbance-handler.
c. resource-allocator.
d. spokesperson.
Definition
d. spokesperson.
Term
THe designing of a new performance evaluation system would be an example of which of the following managerial roles?
a. entrepreneur
b. interpersonal
c. disturbance-handler
d. negotiator
Definition
a. entrepreneur
Term
For Henry Mintzburg, the way that a leader handles a disturbance is characterized:
a. by seeking information.
b. through negotiation.
c. by rigor and speed.
d. as a decisional role.
Definition
d. as a decisional role.
Term
Levels of analysis constitute:
a. a useful way of classifying leadership theory.
b. the most common approach to problem solving in organizations.
c. Frederick Taylor's most lasting contribution to management theory.
d. none of the answers are correct
Definition
a. a useful way of classifying leadership theory.
Term
The three levels of analysis constitute of leadership theory include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. individual.
b. group.
c. behavioral.
d. organizational.
a.
Definition
c. behavioral.
Term
The three levels of analysis of leadership theory are:
a. individual, group, and organizational.
b. team, group, and organizational.
c. leader, group, and organizational.
d. interpersonal, leader, and group.
Definition
a. individual, group, and organizational.
Term
The _ level of analysis can also be called the dyadic process.
a. group
b. individual
c. organizational
d. non of these answers are correct
Definition
b. individual
Term
Organizational performance in the long run depends on:
a. effectively adapting to the environment.
b. acquiring the necessary resources to survive.
c. whether the organizational uses an effective transformation process to produce its products and services.
d. all of these answers are correct.
Definition
d. all of these answers are correct.
Term
The interrelationship among the levels of leadership analysis is true for all of these following EXCEPT:
a. individual performance affect group and organizational performance.
b. group performance affect organizational performance.
c. group and organizational performance affect the performance of the individual.
d. neither the group nor organizational performance affect individual performance.
Definition
d. neither the group nor organizational performance affect individual performance.
Term
Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the levels of analysis of leadership theory?
a. The individual level does not impact the group level.
b. Groups must be understood as functioning within a larger system.
c. The individual level forms the base of the levels.
d. The group-level approach is generally superior to the individual-level approach in assessing leader effectiveness.
Definition
a. The individual level does not impact the group level.
Term
Leadership theory classifications include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. behavioral.
b. integrative.
c. contingency.
d. individual.
Definition
d. individual
Term
Early leadership studies were based on the assumption that leaders are:
a. autocratic.
b. primarily male.
c. born, not made.
d. also managers.
Definition
c. born, not made.
Term
Behavioral leadership theories attempt to explain:
a. distinctive characteristics accounting for leadership effectiveness.
b. successful, influencing leader-follower relationships.
c. distinctive styles used by effective leaders.
d. the appropriate leadership style based on the leader, follower, and situation.
Definition
c. distinctive style used by effective leaders.
Term
Mintzberg's ten managerial roles is an example of:
a. group level of analysis.
b. organizational level of analysis.
c. behavioral leadership theory.
d. a leadership paradigm.
Definition
c. behavioral leadership theory.
Term
_ and _ leadership theories are also called universal theories.
a. Contingency; integrative.
b. Trait; behavioral
c. Behavioral; contingency
d. Trait; integrative
Definition
b. Trait; behavioral
Term
The _ leadership theory paradigm emphasizes the importance of situational factors.
a. trait
b. behavioral
c. contingency
d. integrative
Definition
c. contingency
Term
A successful sales manager was promoted to being CEO of a large conglomerate. Shortly afterward, the manager decided that her style of leadership was inappropriate, and altered the way that she practiced leading. This is an example of:
a. contingency leadership.
b. performing the figurehead role.
c. organizational learning.
d. non of these answers are correct.
Definition
a. contingency leadership.
Term
Contingency leadership theories attempt to explain the appropriate leadership style based on the:
a. leader, follower, and situation.
b. leader, manager, and subordinates.
c. leader, mentor, and entrepreneur
d. individual, group, and situation.
Definition
a. leader, followers, and situation.
Term
A researcher attempting to understand how leaders influence followers to achieve high levels of performance is studying _ leadership theory.
a. behavioral
b. contingency
c. integrative
d. trait
Definition
c. integrative
Term
The eclectic approach to leadership theory, which utilizes and combines insights from previous approaches, is:
a. impossible, as developments in management theory successively nullify one another.
b. called the integrative leadership theory paradigm.
c. considered too cumbersome for both practice and research.
d. impractical; on the group level of analysis.
Definition
b. called the integrative leadership theory paradigm.
Term
Which of the following statements regarding managers and leaders is NOT true?
a. leaders are concerned with stability.
b. Managers focus on doing things right.
c. Leaders place great concern on innovation and change.
d. Managers are concerned with the best way to get the job done.
Definition
a. Leaders are concerned with stability.
Term
Evidence-based management (EBM) is an application of:
a. decision models to reward systems.
b. national cultures to determine the assignment of subordinates to specific tasks.
c. the findings of empirical research to the practice of leadership.
d. judicious, measured amounts of rewards and punishments on the basis of employee performance.
Definition
c. the findings of empirical research to the practice of leadership.
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