The skills approach takes a __________________ on leadership, like the trait approach.
Leader-follower centered perspective
Organizational-centered perspective
Situational-centered perspective
Follower-centered perspective
Leader-centered perspective
Founder and former CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, best demonstrated which trait?
Openness
Integrity
Sociability
Intelligence
Determination
In work settings where the formal authority system is weak, leadership becomes a tool that helps subordinates by making the rules and work requirements clear.
True
False
Each day of the week you meet with your direct supervisor and your coworkers for a morning meeting. The meeting is open-forum and issues, goals, topics, and ideas are all discussed at the meeting, during which the supervisor responds when able and asks for feedback often. This is an example of:
Authority-compliance management
Team management
Country-club management
Middle-of-the-road management
Impoverished management
The ethics of leaders have little impact on the ethical climate of their organizations.
True
False
Transformational leadership views leaders as social architects.
True
False
Under the situational approach, leadership style refers to motivational principles.
True
False
In the situational approach, supportive leader behaviours are mostly job-related.
True
False
Norma and Joel work in a legal firm. They both are aware of a potential promotion coming up soon. In the last project they did, Joel put most of the paperwork on Norma, and she gladly took on the extra workload. However, when their boss was complimenting the project, Norma let Joel take the credit and acted as if they both did the same amount of work. This is an example of what advancement barrier for Norma?
Gender stereotypes
Work experience
Developmental opportunities
Self-promotion
If team goals are unclear, an internal relational intervention is needed to focus on building commitment.
True
False
Charismatic leadership is often described in ways that make it similar to, if not synonymous with, transformational leadership.
True
False
In contexts where the group norms are weak or nonsupportive, leadership assists in building __________ and ____________.
Rules; clarification
Cohesiveness; role responsibility
Roles; responsibility
Behaviour; situations
Psychological structure; task clarity
Due to researchers identifying problems with the term glass ceiling, an alternative metaphor now used is:
Glass escalator
Leadership labyrinth
Whirlpool effect
Corporate cupboard
In SLII, delegating is ineffective with subordinates who are very competent and committed.
True
False
Virtue-based theories:
Focus on the actions of the leade
Are about the leader's character.
Are duty driven.
Focus on consequences of the leader's actions.
According to Blake and Mouton, the "authority-compliance manager" is highly concerned with people and has little concern for results.
True
False
Which best describes the reason situational leadership is so practical for managers to use?
Assist in relating demographics to leadership.
It is only applicable to lower-level managers.
Its straightforward nature.
Its specific nature.
Developed the three-skill model of leadership.
Katz
Stogdill
Goleman
Mumford et al.
Zaccaro
Team goals need to be very clear.
True
False
In team leadership theory, two of the leader's primary decisions are:
To build a vision and implement change.
To monitor or take action.
To be a role model and an innovator.
To organize and to control.
Participative leadership is effective with subordinates who have a strong need to control (internal locus of control).
True
False
Assisting group members in building cohesiveness is primarily a task behaviour.
True
False
Who focused on leaders matching their style to the competence and commitment of employees?
Stogdill
Hersey and Blanchard
Blake and McCanse
Katz
Fisher
Which of the following presents a competency-based approach to leadership?
Trait approach
Skills approach
Style approach
Great person approach
Contingency approach
Pseudotransformational leadership:
Aids followers in an exclusively superficial way.
Is socialized leadership concerned with the collective good.
Focuses on the leader's own interests rather than the interests of others.
Is an ineffective form of leadership.
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