McDaniel Final Exam and Actual
Answers.
true - Answer t or f: leadership has probably been written about, researched, and discussed
more than any other single topic
"black box" - Answer leadership remains a ___________, or unexplainable concept
leaders conquer, and managers surrender - Answer leaders _________ the context and
managers __________ to it
an individual's ability to find meaning in negative events and learn from trying circumstances, or
to conquer adversity - Answer Bennis and Thomas's most reliable indicator and predictor of
true leadership
manager characteristics - Answer Administers
A copy
Maintains
Focuses on systems and structure
Relies on control
Short Range View
Asks how and when
Eye on the bottom line
Imitates
Accepts the status quo
Classic good soldier
Does things right
Leader Characteristics - Answer innovates, focuses on people, develops, inspires trust, an
original, long-range perspective, asks what and why, eye on the horizon, originates, challenges
status quo, is their own person, does the right thing.
Luthan's definition of authentic leadership - Answer to know oneself, to be consistent with
oneself, to have positive and strength based orientations towards one's development and
others' development
, Iowa leadership studies - Answer First attempt to determine what effects styles of leadership
have on a group.
First to analyze leadership from the standpoint of scientific methodology
Showed that different styles of leadership can produce different, complex reactions from the
same or similar groups.
demonstrated three leadership styles: authoritarian, democratic, and laissez faire
Ohio Leadership Studies - Answer Theory that examines levels of consideration and
initiating structure; first to point out the importance of both task and human dimensions in
assessing leadership. Started on the premise that there was no satisfactory definition of
leadership
Michigan Leadership Studies - Answer these studies defined job centered and employee
centered leadership as opposite ends of a single leadership continuum; found supervisors of
high producing sections to be more general than similar. found supervisors of low producing
sections to be similar and production centered.
born vs. made issue - Answer controversy surrounding whether leaders are born with
leadership traits or if leaders are made. conclusion is that both nature (genetics) and nurture
(development)
trait theory of leadership - Answer concerned mainly with identifying the personality traits
of the leader, the great person approach
Zeitgeist Approach - Answer leader is viewed as a product of the situation and times. person
with the traits required by the situation will be the leader
resurfacing of the trait approach - Answer emergence of the "Big Five" personality traits in
OB resulted in the
emergence and effectiveness - Answer personality trait of extraversion has the highest
correlation with leader ________ and __________
hope, resiliency, EI, self-efficacy - Answer characteristics related to effective leaders