Liberty BMAL 590 Week 4 ALC 8 BUSINESS LEADERSHIP

Section 1 Traits, Motives, and Characteristics of Leaders

1. Self-confidence is an important leadership characteristic

2. A key part of a leader having humility is to

3. Finance manager Sharon has the reputation of “walking the talk,” so she most likely scores high on the trait of

4. An important part of being assertive is to

5. The most effective type of humor for an organizational leader to use is directed at

6. Research about emotional intelligence and leadership concludes that

7. A leader with an internal locus of control

8. The achievement motive refers to

9. “Knowledge of the business” as a leadership characteristic is closely related to the leadership trait of

10. Creativity among leaders tends to be distributed

11. Jane is a farsighted leader, so she

12. According to the WICS Model of Leadership,an effective leader synthesizes

13. With respect to heredity and environment, leadership effectiveness appears to be

14. Emotional intelligence tends to

15. An important strength of the trait approach to leadership is that it

Section 2 Leadership Development and Succession

16. After receiving negative feedback about her company, the CEO showed double-loop learning by saying,

17. The opposite end of the leadership dimension forceful is

18. Keith is a lopsided leader, so he best fits the category of being too

19. Self-discipline plays an important role in leadership development because

20. An important way for leaders to capitalize on challenging experiences is for them to be given

21. To achieve multifunctional managerial development, a leader would have to

22. To use the shadowing form of mentoring, the prot

23. The support in a feedback-intensive management development program relates to

24. A key element of behavioral role modeling involves

25. Of the following, the most likely to be emphasized in a personal growth program of leadership development is

26. Shay works for PricewaterhouseCoopers where she participates in action learning for leadership development. Shay is therefore

27. The purpose of psychotherapy as leadership development is to

28. A strongly recommended approach for the board to use in choosing a new CEO is for the board members to

29. Developing a pool of leadership successors combines evaluating with giving high potential candidates the

30. Barry gets promoted to the CEO position partly because he is perceived to be an inside-outside leader, meaning that he

Section 3 Charismatic and Transformational Leadership

31. A study showed that attributions of charisma are heavily influenced by

32. We know that charismatic leadership has taken place when

33. The personalized charismatic leader uses power to

34. A vitally important part of being a charismatic leader is

35. Brain research about visions suggests that visionaries in contrast to non-visionaries,

36. To apply “management by storytelling,” the leader should

37. A leader who is personally charismaticis likely to

38. Max wants to develop a personal brand, so he

39. Melissa wants to bring about transformations in her organization. Which one of the following would be the best recommendation for her?

40. Which one of the following is the least typical characteristic of a transformational leader?

41. A study of team leadership found that transformational leadership helped the group

42. A major concern about charismatic leadership is that

Section 4 Leadership Behaviors, Attitudes, and Styles

43. The consideration dimension of leadership behavior includes how well the leader creates an environment of

44. A leader who scored high on initiating structure would

45. Division manager Cassandra wants to get the most out of her direct reports. A good strategy would be for her to

46. The major thrust of the servant leaderis to

47. A key part of 360-degree feedback is for leaders to

48. Suggestions for making better use of 360-degree feedback do not include which one of the following?

49. Participative management is likely to work the best with

50. A study with Norwegian workers found that when employees reported to manager with a laissez-faire leadership style, they

51. According to the Leadership Grid system, the most effective leadership style is

52. A pronounced characteristic of an entrepreneurial leader is

53. A large research study about sex differences in effectiveness between men and women leaders found that

54. A study with 3,000 executives revealed that leaders who obtain the best results typically use

Section 5 Contingency and Situational Leadership

55. The contingency approach to leadership explains that leaders are most effective when they

56. Contingency leadership theorists believe that in terms of shaping the leader’s behavior,

57. In Fiedler’s contingency theory, the most important dimension of the situation for determining situational control is

58. Following Fiedler’s contingency model, a leader can increase situational control by

59. The general thrust of path-goal theory is to specify what the leader must do to

60. A suggestion to the leader based on path-goal theory is for the leader to

61. The situational leadership model II emphasizes contingency factors relating to

62. The “coaching” style of leadership in the situational leadership model II is described as

63. According to the normative decision model,when group development is a high priority, the leader

64. According to the cognitive resource theory, under high stress conditions

65. Which CEO approach best fits the contingency factor of “unstable environment, high rate of change, complexity”?

66. A key part of evidence-based leadership or managementis to