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OLS 28400:Exam One
Which thoery of leadership emphasized the leaders are "born" with a set of personal qulaities that destined them to be great? |
Great Person Theory |
Self-efficacy can best be described as a leader who |
Believes they have the capacity to succeed |
Which concept suggest that a leader's potential to be influential arises out of the follower's positive perception about the leader's behaviors? |
Idiosyncrasy credit |
Leadership effectiveness is best assessed |
by a variety of subjective and objective criteria |
Which of the following four approaches for studying and understanding leadership emphasizes attributes of leaders such as personality, motives, values and skills? |
Trait |
Which of the following is not true about what leaders do for the groups of which they are a part? |
They control all events around the group |
Given the leadership phenomenon, social process is defined through: |
Interactions |
The process component of leadership is said to be: |
Both dynamic and interactive |
Personality characteristics that may be expected of a leader are determined by the perceptions held by whom? |
The followers |
The concept of leadership is a central building block of the conventional wisdom of: |
Organization and Management |
When a manager uses time to read, understand and comply with labor laws and environmental regulations, that time is best described as the core component of: |
Constraints |
Which of the following is not a guideline for problem solving? |
Assign blame |
Which of the follwoing is not a change in the nature of managerial work? |
A decrease in reliance on outside suppliers and consultants |
When a manager's primary concern is to structure work and develop procedures to increase the efficiency of operations, that organization is in the life cycle of |
Maturity |
As the size of an organization increases upper level managers are more likey to |
Make more autocratic decisions |
When a manager is faced with a crisis such as a work stoppage the role that the manager would adopt is most likely: |
Disturbance handler |
The term often used to describe the number of employees over whom the manager is responsible is: |
The span of control |
Which one of the following four is not a primary process in managing? |
Figurehead |
Which of the following is not a guideline for managing time? |
Increase constraints |
Leaders who simultaneously display high degrees of both structuring and consideration behavior are likely to be the most_______ |
Effective |
Workers under supervisors who establish a climate of mutual trust: |
Are more likely to accept higher levels of structure |
Which one of the following is an example of "consideration" behavior? |
Accepting suggestions |
According to Blake and Mouton, effective leaders are more likely to: |
Have a high concern for both the task and relationships |
Which feature was not recommended as a guideline for individual performance goals? |
Set goals for every task and responsibility |
In general, leader behaviors of________ consideration and _____ structure equate to higher grievances and turnover |
Low, High |
Initiating structure is absent even when consideration is high, results will be: |
Lower |
Which one of the following is not a change-oriented behavior? |
Provide Coaching |
Which one of the following is not an example of coaching |
Provide answers to tough problems |
Which of the following statements is not a reason for not delegating tasks? |
Delegation makes an employee's job more meaningful |
Which of the following is not an empowerment program? |
Legitimate power |
When a manager makes a decision alone without asking for the opinions or suggestions of others that decision is best described as: |
Autocratic |
Decisions about what to delegate to a subordinate are more likely to be influenced by: |
How competent and trustworthy the subordinate is |
Authoritarian supervision is characterized by which of the following? |
Decisions are not shared |
Laissez-faire leaders are seen as having what type of leadership attitude? |
Hands off |
Hands off |
Personal Power motive |