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| Leadership is the influenceing process of leaders and followers to achieve organizational objectives through change. |
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| There are managers who are not effective leaders. |
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| Good followers are considered "you people." |
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| The qualities needed for effective leadership are the same as those needed to be an effective follower. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| Taking advantage of followers for personal gain is part of leadership. |
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| Leaders are born, not made. |
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| A role is a set of expectations of how a person will behave to perform a job. |
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| The interpersonal leadership roles include figurehead, leader, and monitor. |
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| Figurehead is an interpersonal role. |
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| Serving on committees with members from outside the organizational unit is an example of a figurehead role. |
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| Monitor, dissemination, and spokesperson are the three informational leadership roles. |
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| Spokesperson is a decisional role. |
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| Leaders perform a disseminator role when they send information to others in the organizational unit. |
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| Time management priorities are the responsibility of a monitor. |
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| The three levels of analysis of leadership theory are individual, group, and organizational. |
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| The group level of analysis of leadership theory can also be called the dyadic process. |
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| Individual and group performance are based on organizational performance. |
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| The group-level approach provides a better understanding of leadership effectiveness than the individual. |
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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. |
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| Early leadership theories were based in the assumption that leaders are made, not born. |
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| There is a universal list of traits that all successful leaders possess. |
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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. |
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| Behavioral leadership theories attempt to explain the appropriate leadership style based on the leader, followers, and situation. |
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| Mintzburg's ten managerial roles are an example of contingency leadership theory. |
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| Contingency leadership theories attempt to combine the trait and behavioral theories to explain successful, influencing leader-follower relationships. |
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| The contingency theory paradigm emphasizes the importance of situational factors. |
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| Integrative leadership theories attempt to combine the trait, behavioral, and contingency theories to explain successful, influencing leader-follower relationships. |
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| The overarching paradigm has shifted from management to leadership. |
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| Successful managers typically use an autocratic form of leadership. |
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The key elements of leadership include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. influence.
b. leaders-followers.
c. change.
d. personality. |
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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. |
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| d. between the leader and the follower. |
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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. |
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| a. A manager always has the ability to influence others; a leader may not. |
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_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 |
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Which of the following is NOT a managerial role category?
a. interpersonal
b. intrapersonal
c. informational
d. decisional |
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Which of the following is NOT one of Mintzberg's interpersonal leadership roles?
a. figurehead
b. entrepreneur
c. leader
d. liaison |
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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 |
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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 |
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| c. signing official documents |
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_ behavior includes networking to develop relationships and gain information and favors.
a. Disseminator
b. Figurehead
c. Liaison
d. Resource-allocator |
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Which of the following is one of the informational leadership roles?
a. negotiator
b. liaison
c. monitor
d. resource-allocator |
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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 |
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| a. reporting information to the government |
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The decisional leadership roles include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. entrepreneur.
b. disturbance-handler.
c. resource-allocator.
d. spokesperson. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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| a. a useful way of classifying leadership theory. |
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The three levels of analysis constitute of leadership theory include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. individual.
b. group.
c. behavioral.
d. organizational.
a. |
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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. |
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| a. individual, group, and organizational. |
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The _ level of analysis can also be called the dyadic process.
a. group
b. individual
c. organizational
d. non of these answers are correct |
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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. |
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| d. all of these answers are correct. |
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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. |
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| d. neither the group nor organizational performance affect individual performance. |
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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. |
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| a. The individual level does not impact the group level. |
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Leadership theory classifications include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. behavioral.
b. integrative.
c. contingency.
d. individual. |
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Early leadership studies were based on the assumption that leaders are:
a. autocratic.
b. primarily male.
c. born, not made.
d. also managers. |
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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. |
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| c. distinctive style used by effective leaders. |
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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. |
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| c. behavioral leadership theory. |
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_ and _ leadership theories are also called universal theories.
a. Contingency; integrative.
b. Trait; behavioral
c. Behavioral; contingency
d. Trait; integrative |
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The _ leadership theory paradigm emphasizes the importance of situational factors.
a. trait
b. behavioral
c. contingency
d. integrative |
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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. |
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| a. contingency leadership. |
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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. |
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| a. leader, followers, and situation. |
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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 |
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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. |
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| b. called the integrative leadership theory paradigm. |
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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. |
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| a. Leaders are concerned with stability. |
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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. |
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| c. the findings of empirical research to the practice of leadership. |
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