Leadership Final Test 1 – Flashcards
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The weakest link in business and industry effectiveness
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Leadership
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Satisfactions of leaders include both
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a chance to help others feeling in on things
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Caring leadership means (2)
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caring about the task to be done caring about people
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Greek warrior Achilles lead by
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Deeds
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Political leadership is to Caesar and Elizabeth as
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None of the above
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Rosa Parks provided leadership in the area of
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Civil Rights
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Influence of environmental factors and individual qualities in determining leadership effectiveness is shown in studies by
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None of the above
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Central message of Theodore Roosevelt's passage
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Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all
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Karl Marx observed
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The manner in which a society does its work shapes most things a society believes and does
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Leadership is present
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In all areas of society and at all levels of responsibility
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John W. Gardner identifies the ____ where his leadership emerged from being a _____.
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crucible; marine
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Researchers have focused upon two main theories of leadership effectiveness
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trait; behavior
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In ___ Ralph Stogdill and others...
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1945; Ohio State; Rensis Likert
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Vince Lombardi had a __ personality
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Charismatic; values and goals
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery spoke to the ___
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Imaginative nature of vision
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Problems with ___, ____, and ____ are fertile fields for emotional instability
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alcohol; money; relationships
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"nothing in life just happens, it isnt enough to just believe in something.."
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Golda Meir
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Most important quality of leadership is __ including __ and ___
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integrity; honesty; courage
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Successful leaders today function more as __ and __ than __ and ___
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Facilitators; teachers; enforcers; disciplinarians
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In general, when work to be done is...
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Clear cut; routine; monotonous; non-directive; supportive
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___ advocated a __ style of leadership and __ advocated a __ style of leadership
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Machiavellie; directive; Lao-Tzu; non-directive
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Participative followers ____ regular staff meetings, oopen door policy...
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Prefer
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___ is a special personal quality that generates others' interest
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Charisma
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Characteristics of followers that influence the leadership process are
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respect for authority interpersonal trust
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"he made me feel important" vince lombardi
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charismatic personality
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Edwin Ghisselli's 6 traits of leadership do not include
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social status
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all of the following are factors that influence nature of the situation except
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employee wages
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Ghiselli identified 6 traits for effective leadership except
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strong ego
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Qualities of ineffective leaders have been identified by__-
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Barbara Kellerman incompetence, rigidity, intemperance, callousness, corruption, cruelty
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___ said "criticism should not be querluous.."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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___ said " very few men are wise by their own counsel.."
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Ben Johnson
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Douglas McGregor married the ideas of
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Lewin; Maslow
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If more than ___% of your job is painful...
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20%
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___ was a Russian writer
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Leo Tolstoy
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in ___ stage, member behavior is characterized by a shift from detachment to involvement
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Norming
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The quality of hum relations in any workplace reflects
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members; leaders; value of humanity
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___ is required when people of different styles live/work together
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All of the above
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Warren Bennis indentifies 4 principles of effective leadership
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only spend time with people who help you
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Fully functioning groups are characterized by
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all of the above
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time tested practices for developing successful teams
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all of the above
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A leader can create a high performance team by
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all of the above
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Which of the following is not a positive role someone would play in building...
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above it all
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research shows that success is enhances..
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all of the above
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intrinsic factors that are necessary for a satisfying job do not include
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job security
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The engineers that approved the challenger fell victim to
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rationalization
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the hawthorne studies
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analyzed working conditions and work relationships
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the best human policy is for men and women to treat one another
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respect; leader
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meta-analysis shows
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positive; organizational commitment, job performance, organizational citizenship and retention
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___ said "teamwork is the fuel that allows common people.."
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Andrew Carnegie
