Leadership and Change Midterm Troy – Flashcards
Flashcard maker : Jacob Patel
leadership
is an interpersonal relation in which others comply bc they want to
which of the following statements about rational and emotional aspects of leadership is most likely false?
Effective leadership involves actions based exclusively on reason and logic.
What is Hollander’s approach to leadership called?
Transactional
Schein’s classic study of sex roles:
demonstrated how bias in sex role stereotypes created problems for women moving up through managerial roles.
What is the reason behind the usage of the phrase “desirable opportunities” in one of the definitions of leadership?
To distinguish between leadership and tyranny
In a complex situation, what is the leader’s most important role?
Increase levels of interaction and communication.
The interactional framework for analyzing leadership includes:
followers, leaders, and situations.
Which of the following is true of the leadership definitions?
Various definitions illustrate that many factors affect leadership.
Which term is most often associated with the word “management”?
Efficiency
Which of the following statements is true of leadership and management?
Leadership and management have both unique functions and an area of overlap.
The process by which an older and more experienced person helps to socialize and encourage younger organizational colleagues is called:
mentoring
In the informal coaching process, a leader is most likely to inspire commitment from a follower by ________.
reviewing performance appraisals
What is a frequent lesson learned by both men and women from their career experiences?
Handling political situations
Which statement about perceptual sets is most likely FALSE?
Perceptual sets are the tendency to perceive everything.
Leadership training programs for mid-level managers are LEAST likely to focus on improving ________ skills.
strategic planning
Leadership development is enhanced when experience involves the three processes of:
action, observation, and reflection.
Which term refers to a kind of learning between the individual and the environment in which learners seek relatively little feedback that may significantly confront their fundamental ideas or actions?
Single-loop learning
People who are observing an action are much more likely than the actor to make the fundamental attribution error. This is called:
actor/observer difference.
In perception, which term refers to the process of assigning underlying causes to behaviors?
Attribution
Which of the following involves confronting your beliefs, inviting others to challenge you, and working on personal blind spots?
Double-loop learning
During the third month, leaders of large teams should have separate second meeting with direct reports that are held off-site. Which of the following is NOT one of the key issues that should be discussed with the direct reports during these meetings?
Identifying personal career goals
Technical competence is especially important for first-line supervisors because they:
spend a great amount of time training their followers.
Why do followers most likely need to have a high level of technical competence?
Technical expertise plays a key role in supervisors’ performance appraisal ratings of subordinates.
What is most likely an outcome of regularly practicing a 10 percent stretch?
Decreasing apprehensions about trying new activities
Which of the following is the LEAST likely way to learn from your leadership experience?
Holding regular staff meetings
Which of the following would LEAST likely help a subordinate to better understand their superior’s world?
Meeting with the superior’s boss to evaluate their interaction and relationship
According to the new leader onboarding roadmap, within the first two weeks, leaders should:
meet all team members.
Which statement is most likely true about followers and superiors having effective working relationships?
Superiors and followers with good relationships tend to experience less conflict.
Which of the following is NOT an example of behaviors that could be considered a “10 percent stretch”?
Using a motivational practice that has been very successful in the past
Which of the following is NOT one of the seven specific steps for creating high-impact development plans?
Scheduling regular meetings with your superior
Which of the following refers to one person’s actual behaviors designed to change another person’s attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviors?
Influence tactics
________ power is a function of the amount of knowledge one possesses relative to the rest of the members of a group.
Expert
A leader who has developed close interpersonal relationships with followers generally uses ________ power to influence them.
referent
Which of the following statements concerning power and influence is most likely FALSE?
Leaders in well-functioning firms are rarely influenced by their subordinates.
Coalition tactics are most likely exhibited when agents:
seek the aid of others to influence the target.
Rational tactics are most likely used by a person when:
the benefits are organizational as well as personal.
People typically use hard tactics when:
an influencer has the upper hand.
A politician’s advisor explains how demographic changes in the politician’s district make it important for the politician to spend more time in the district seeing constituents than she has in the past. This is an example of:
a rational persuasion.
Research findings by French and Raven indicate that leaders who rely primarily on ________ and ________ power have subordinates who are more motivated and satisfied, are absent less, and perform better.
referent; expert
Which of the following statements is most likely true of legitimate power?
Legitimate power depends on a person’s organizational role.
Which term refers to the generation of workers born after 1982?
Millennials
In general, members of the Veteran generation:
grew up during World War II.
Values are most likely:
learned through socialization.
Relationships that lack trust are characterized by self-protective efforts to control and verify each other’s behavior. This statement most likely relates to the ________ level of principle-centered leadership.
interpersonal
________ involves reinterpreting otherwise immoral behavior in terms of a higher purpose.
Moral justification
In general, members of the Baby Boomer generation:
are ambitious and loyal to organizations.
Ends-based thinking is best characterized as:
Doing what’s best for the greatest number of people.”
What is the main criticism of servant leadership?
Serving employees conflicts with the realistic goals of organizations.
Gen Xers have a tendency to define leadership as:
giving employees what they need to work well and comfortably
Which of the following best describes attribution of blame?
Justifying immoral behavior by claiming it was caused by someone else’s actions
Which of the following statements is most likely true of intelligence?
Intelligence and intelligence testing are extremely controversial topics in the social sciences today.
Which of the following is a measure of the ability model of emotional intelligence that asks subjects to recognize the emotions depicted in pictures?
MSCEIT
A leader who has extensive knowledge and experience in leading a pharmaceutical research team may feel uncomfortable and unprepared when asked to lead a major fund-raising effort for a charitable institution. This example illustrates that practical intelligence is most likely:
domain specific.
Which of the following statements concerning intelligence is most likely true?
Most research shows that leaders possess higher levels of analytic intelligence than the general population.
Most intelligence and aptitude tests are good examples of:
convergent thinking.
By discouraging cross-functional collaboration, leaders can most likely guarantee that followers will:
only offer up tried and true solutions to problems.
According to Goleman, self-control, trustworthiness, conscientiousness, adaptability, and innovation correspond to:
self-regulation.
Leaders lower in neuroticism tend to:
hide their emotions.
Which of the following is NOT a type of intelligence identified in the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence?
Strategic Intelligence
What characteristic is most likely associated with people who have higher levels of analytic intelligence?
Learning quickly
The leadership dimensions that were identified by the Ohio State studies are:
consideration and initiating structure.
The leadership competency of helping a group or community recognize and define its opportunities and issues in ways that result in effective action is known as:
framing.
In terms of the Leadership Grid, leaders scoring 1,9 show:
high concern for people and low concern for production.
Goal emphasis and work facilitation are ________ leadership behavior dimensions.
job-centered
Which skill category relates to analyzing issues, making decisions, and thinking strategically?
Business skills
According to Hogan and Warrenfelz, which of the following skills is the most difficult to change?
Intrapersonal
Which of the following statements concerning 360-degree feedback systems is most likely FALSE?
Most 360-degree feedback systems are designed to make comparisons between people.
Mobilization is best defined as:
engaging a critical mass to take action for the purpose of achieving a specific outcome.
The two dimensions of the Leadership Grid are:
concern for people and concern for production.
Which of the following leadership questionnaires measured the extent to which leaders in industrial settings exhibited consideration and initiating structure behaviors?
SBDQ
The degree to which someone tells others something and ensures that they understand what was said is called:
communication effectiveness.
________ is defined as the process by which we perceive and respond to situations that challenge us
Stress
A leader in the first quadrant of the credibility matrix has a ________ of trust and a ________ of expertise.
high level; high level
Using the example of starting a new exercise program, which of the following would be a restraining force in a force field analysis?
No regular exercise partner
One way to maximize the attendance and benefits of a meeting is to:
make it convenient.
All of the following are guidelines for effectively managing stress EXCEPT:
avoiding exercise late in the day.
The ________ component of assertiveness skills concerns knowing where and when not to behave assertively.
knowledge
Which of the following would be best for managing stress?
Using progressive muscle relaxation techniques
________ use a graphic approach to systematically represent the root causes of a problem, the relationships between different causes, and sometimes a prioritization of which causes are most important.
Cause-and-effect diagrams
Which of the following would most likely result from too much stress?
Reduced job performance
