Please answer the following quiz as early as possible!! 1. Definitions of leader
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Please answer the following quiz as early as possible!!
1. Definitions of leadership are not important for designing and interpreting research.
a. True
b. False
2. The best explanation for why there are so many different definitions of leadership is that
leadership is a simple phenomenon that occurs, and the study of leadership does not require it
to be defined.
a. True
b. False
3. The Leadership Definition Key relies on five key elements, which do not include:
a. People
b. Change
c. Authority
d. Leaders-Followers
e. Influence
4. According to the text, leadership is learnable.
a. True
b. False
5. What process is emphasized in the definition of leadership proposed by the text?
a. facilitating collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives
b. motivating followers to do more than they initially expected
c. influence between leaders and followers to achieve objectives through change
d. influencing followers to have complete and unquestioning trust in leaders
6. Interpersonal skills involve the ability to understand, communicate, and work well with
individuals and groups through developing effective relationships.
a. True
b. False
7. Decision-making skills involve the ability to use methods/techniques to perform a task.
a. True
b. False
8. Which leadership skill is based on other skills, such as time management, quantitative
reasoning, and also the ability to be creative?
a. decision-making
b. management
c. technical
d. interpersonal
9. Technical skills vary widely from job to job, and they are the easiest of the three management
skills to develop.
a. True
b. False
10. Interpersonal skills are based on several other skills, including negotiating, power, and ethics.
a. True
b. False
11. Top-level managers have a greater need for interpersonal and decision-making skills than
technical skills.
a. True
b. False
13. First-level managers have a balanced need for all three skills.
a. True
b. False
11. Although managers need all three skills, the need for each skill does not vary based on the level
of management.
a. True
b. False
14. Middle-level managers do not have a balanced need for all three skills.
a. True
b. False
15. Mintzberg identified ten managerial roles that leaders perform to accomplish organizational
objectives.
a. True
b. False
16. In grouping Mintzberg’s managerial roles, leadership is based on three role categories:
a. relations, task, change-oriented
b. interpersonal, informational, decisional
d. neither (a) nor (b)
17-26.
_____ Figurehead Role a. the responsibility of establishing and maintaining
relationships w/individuals & groups outside of organization
_____Leader Role b. the responsibility of evaluating what can & cannot be agreed
to in contracts/acquisitions, with or without persuasion
_____Liaison Role c. the responsibility of performing the symbolic and formal
authority duties that are generally legal or social in nature
_____Monitor Role d. the responsibility of determining use of money, personnel,
material, equipment, facilities, and services.
_____ Spokesperson Role e. the responsibility of dealing with sudden crises that are
unforeseen, accidental, and of an urgent nature
_____Negotiator Role f. the responsibility of paying attention to & continually seeking
info about any and all aspects of organizational relevance
_____Entrepreneur Role g. the responsibility to transmit information and express value
statements to people outside the organizational unit
_____Disturbance h. the responsibility of making the organizational subunit
Handler Role function as an integrated whole in pursuit of its basic purpose
i. the responsibility to determine what information gets passed
_____Resource along to subordinates
Allocator Role j. the responsibility to explore possible organizational changes
that could exploit opportunities for improving the existing
_____Disseminator Role situation of the organization
27. According to the text, one useful way to classify leadership theory and research is by the levels
of analysis.
a. True
b. False
28. The three levels of analysis are individual, group, and organizational.
a. True
b. False
29. Which level of analysis of leadership theory stresses the importance of examining how a leader
and follower influence each other over time:
a. individual
b. group
c. organizational
30. According to the text, understanding the performance of an individual is the most significant in
considering interrelationships among level of analysis.
a. True
b. False
31. Which level of analysis of leadership theory stresses the importance of effectively adapting to
the environment and acquiring the necessary resources to survive:
a. individual
b. group
c. organizational
32. A shared mindset that represents a fundamental way of thinking about, perceiving, studying,
researching, and understanding leadership is a “leadership framework”.
a. True
b. False
33. Which of the following was not listed as a leadership paradigm?
a. interpersonal
b. contingency
c. behavioral leadership
d. trait theory
34. Which of the leadership paradigms attempt to explain distinctive styles used by effective
leaders, or to define the nature of their work:
a. behavioral leadership
b. relationship-task- change oriented leadership
c. integrative leadership
35. Leadership trait theories attempt to explain distinctive characteristics accounting for leadership
effectiveness.
a. True
b. False
36. Integrative leadership theories attempt to combine the trait, behavioral, and contingency
theories to explain successful influencing leader-follower relationships.
a. True
b. False
37. Which personality classification method categorizes traits into the dimensions of surgency,
agreeableness, adjustment, conscientiousness, openness, and experience:
a. Myers Briggs Type Indicator
c. Big Five Model of Personality
d. Leadership Trait Universality
38. Personality profiles identify individual stronger and weaker traits.
a. True
b. False
39. According to the text, there are certain personality traits that can lead to leadership failure.
Although there are six major reasons for derailed leadership, overall, the problem of derailed
managers is poor “___________” skills.
40-47.
_____ Need for Achievement a. (n) personal concern for excellence in accomplishments through
Individual efforts
_____ Need for Power b. personality dimension that includes dominance, extraversion,
and high energy with determination
_____ Need for Affiliation c. personality dimension that includes traits of emotional stability
and self-confidence
_____Big 5: Surgency d. (n) personal concern for developing, maintaining, and restoring
close personal relationships—posess high emotional intelligence
_____Big 5: Agreeableness e. personality dimension that includes traits of sociability and
emotional intelligence
_____Big 5: Adjustment f. personality dimension that includes traits of flexibility,
Intelligence, and internal locus of control
_____Big 5: Conscientiousness g. personality dimension that includes traits of dependability and
integrity
_____Big 5: Openness h. (n) personal concern for influencing others and seeking positions
of authority
48. In the process of justifying unethical behavior, the term moral justification explains the thinking
process of rationalizing why unethical behavior is used.
a. True
b. False
49. In the motivation process, there is always a need or want that motivates behavior.
a. True
b. False
50. The text asserts that it is not easy to know why people behave the way they do, because
people do the same things for different reasons.
a. True
b. False
Explanation / Answer
1. Ans. A:true
Explanation: Designing and interpretting research can even be done by anyone in the team.This is not just the leader's role.Even the team member can suggest the designing and interpert his ideas to the leader.
2. Ans. b:False
There are so many definitions for a leader because the leader must contain numerous qualities to handle the team and make decisions.so this is not a simple phenomenon and leadership can be defined in many terms like decision making,proactive,people friendly,managing team etc.
3. Ans: C.Authority
Explanation: Authority is not important for a leader to make his/her team work.If he uses his authority then he is a head weighted leader .He should not misuse his position to get the work done.The position is just to lead the team and get suggestions from the team.Leader should not give orders else he should be friendly in giving instructions.
4. Ans. A:True
Leader can learn so many things from his/her team.leader doesnot mean he/she knows everything.He learns qualities everyday from his team and co workers.He gets new ideas also from his team and learns from that.
5. ans. A.facilitating collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives.
Explanation: Leader should assign goals for each and every member of a team.so objectives are shared and finally leader composes the work of a every team member as a collective one to accomplish a task successfully
6. Ans : A .true
Interpersonal skills are the skills that we have to groomed to maintain a good relationship with others.this teaches us how we should communicate with others and we should putforth our ideas
7. ans: B. false
decision making skills helps us to choose alternative solution for a task.If we use methods and techniques then it is technical skills
8. Ans: a. decision making
explanation: these skills are the ability to think and conceptualize a situation and act accordingly to select alternatives to solve a problemm to manage time so the problem can be solved within the specified time.it also gives us creative solutins for a problem
9. ans: A:true
They are business skills and with the technicality one can get promoted to first management position easily
10. Ans:A.True
They are people skills.so using these skills we know how to interact with others to get the job done either through negotiating or using their power
11. ans: A: true
A manager can reach top level if he knows to how to interact with people well and what decisions to take in a situation .Technical skills can be learnt easily but these two are difficult for a person to develop.
12. Ans: B.false
First level manager should have more technical and interpersonal skills than decision making skills.
13. Ans: b.false
The need of skills for each level vary.first level manager needs to be strong in technical skills.where as top level managers have to be strong in decision making and interpersonal skills than technical because they direct the company
14. Ans: B: false
middle level managers have a greater balanced need of all the three skills than top level or first level managers.They need not be expert in all the skills but they should be fair enough in handling all the situations
15. Ans: A: true
leaders must perform all the three roles interpersonal : Figure head,leader,liason
informational:monitor,dissimenator,spokesperson
decisional:enterpreuner,disturbance handler,resource allocator,negotiator.
16. Ans: B.interpersonal,informational,decisional
These are the three important skills for a successfull manager to perform a task and get the work done from a team and manage company in a positive manner
17. ans : c
18.ans : h
19 ans: a
20. ans :j
21. ans:g
22. ans : b
23. ans: j
24. ans :e
25. ans:d
26. ans :i
27 Ans. A,true
they are classified by levels such as individual,group,organization
28. ans: A.true
explanation:the leaders are classified based on number of persons they need to handle in a situation or for a given task
29.ans: B.group
In a group there will be a leader and his team mates. so here the team mates can give new ideas and influence a leader or a leader can influence a team member with his skills or qualities.only in a group this exists
30. Ans:a true
each and every individuals effort should be empowered and appreciated so that their relationship is good.if the inidividuals effort is not upto the mark then the peers can give suggestions to them to improve .so only when you appreciate others work you can maintain a good interrelationship
31. ans: C .organizational
Inorder to sustain in a company we need to adapt ourselves to that surroundings and make use of the resources available there .so that we get job satisfaction
32.Ans : A.true
leadership framework is about values,achieving goals,engaging people,mainitaining relationship and studying learning and learning them etc
33. ans: a.interpersonal
this is a skill or a quality for a leader but not a leadership paradigm.
34. ans: a.behavioural
Based on the behaviour of a leader the styles they work also differ .if the leader is rough and tough then he may take risks to complete a task and their nature of work also depends on their characterisitics of a person
35. Ans. a.true
the word trait itself descibes the characteristics of a person
36. ans: a.true
the term integrative itself means it is combination of two or more things.so integrative theory combines all the three theories and has some of the aspects of all three
37. ans:c:big five model
big five model explaint the basic five traits of a person with which we can calculate what kind of a person he is.so the five traits are the ones which helps to determine the persons character
38. ans: a.true
personality profiles measures each and every aspect of an individuals behaviour or qualities so it can identify the strength and weakness of an individual
39: ans: decision making skills
if a managers decision making skill is not good then it will lead to a failure.a manager must know when to take what decisions according to the situation
40. ans .a
41 ans :h
42. ans .d
43.ans.b
44. ans.f
45. ans.g
46.ans.c
47.ans.e
48. ans.a .true
because the ethics may differ from persin to person.so justification cannot be made generally
49.ans.a.true
motivation may come from a need to do something or the desire for us to achieve something then we get motivated a lot
50. ans .a.true
each people perspective is different at different situations so they act according to situations and behave in that way