BMGT 2309 Ch 1-4 Exam Questions with Latest Update
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Knowledge results from having developed an assortment of complex schemata for learning and organizing data. - Answer-True
Jake has a tough time choosing between two candidates for a leadership position. He ends up choosing Nancy over Jackie, because Nancy just seems like she was born to lead. Fr...
BMGT 2309 Ch 1-4 Exam Questions with
Latest Update
Knowledge results from having developed an assortment of complex schemata for
learning and organizing data. - Answer-True
Jake has a tough time choosing between two candidates for a leadership position. He
ends up choosing Nancy over Jackie, because Nancy just seems like she was born to
lead. From which perspective is Jake viewing leadership? - Answer-trait perspective
The Managerial (Leadership) Grid was designed to explain how leaders help
organizations to reach their purposes through two factors: concern for production and
concern for people. - Answer-True
Judge et al. found a strong relationship between the Big Five traits and leadership.
Specifically, in their study, conscientiousness was the factor most strongly associated
with leadership. - Answer-False
You are the director of human resources for a medium-sized company and you have
been informed by the president that you have to develop a plan to reduce the
company's health-care costs. To display your problem definition decision-making skills,
you should first ______. - Answer-identify the full ramifications for employees of
changing their health insurance coverage
Based on field research in administration and his own firsthand observations of
executives in the workplace, Katz suggested that effective administration depends on
three basic personal skills, including all of the following EXCEPT ______. - Answer-
communication
Some researchers view leadership as a ______ process that moves followers to
accomplish more than is usually expected of them. - Answer-transformational
Although personality certainly plays an integral role in leadership, the skills approach
suggests that knowledge and abilities are needed for effective leadership. - Answer-
True
Emergent leadership is not assigned by position; rather, it emerges over a period
through communication. - Answer-True
The ability to understand one's own and others' feelings, behaviors, and thoughts and to
act appropriately is known as ______. - Answer-social intelligence
, The skill-based model of Mumford's group has five components: competencies,
individual attributes, leadership outcomes, career experiences, and environmental
influences. - Answer-True
Fatima is a manager in charge of personnel. Today she will have to write up an
employee for excessive tardiness. She knows the employee might feel embarrassed
and get upset when she tells them the bad news, so she decides to wait until the end of
the day and bring them in her office away from the group to have the conversation.
Which of these is Fatima displaying in this situation? - Answer-social intelligence
Although leaders and followers are closely linked, it is the ______ who often initiates the
relationship, creates the communication linkages, and carries the burden for maintaining
the relationship. - Answer-leader
Conceptually, social judgment skills are the opposite of Katz's (1955) early work on the
role of human skills in management. - Answer-False
Early theories developed around the trait approach were called ______ theories
because they focused on identifying the innate qualities and characteristics possessed
by great social, political, and military leaders. - Answer-great man
What do relationship behaviors facilitate? - Answer-helping followers feel comfortable
with themselves, each other, and their situation
Some definitions of leadership view leadership as the focus of group processes. From
this perspective, the leader is ______. - Answer-
The trait approach's narrow focus on ______ is considered both a strength and a
weakness. - Answer-leaders
______ is the capacity or potential to influence. - Answer-Power
Although many research studies could be categorized under the heading of the
behavioral approach, all of these are strongly representative of the ideas in this
approach EXCEPT ______. - Answer-studies by Blanchard
In the mid-20th century, the trait approach was challenged by research that questioned
the ______ of leadership traits. - Answer-universality
What do task behaviors facilitate? - Answer-goal accomplishment
Jorge places heavy emphasis on task and job requirements, and less emphasis on
people, except to the extent that people are tools for getting the job done. He is often
seen as controlling, demanding, hard driving, and overpowering. Which style would
Jorge most likely align with on the Leadership Grid? - Answer-authority-compliance
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