MGT 6615 EXAMS SCRIPT ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Knowledge - ✔✔The accumulation of information and the mental structures used to
organize that information
✔✔Schema - ✔✔a conceptual framework a person uses to make sense of the world
✔✔What are the four individual attributes that have an impact on leadership skills? -
✔✔General Cognitive Ability
Crystallized Cognitive Ability
Motivation
Personality
✔✔Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔Intelligence that usually grows and expands up through early
adulthood and then declines with age
✔✔General Cognitive Ability - ✔✔General intelligence that is linked to biology rather
than experience
✔✔Crystallized Cognitive Ability - ✔✔Intellectual ability that is learned or acquired over
time
✔✔3 aspects of motivation - ✔✔Willingness, dominance, and social good
✔✔Effective problem solving and performance are the outcomes of what? -
✔✔Leadership
✔✔Performance - ✔✔The degree to which a leader has successfully performed the
assigned duties.
✔✔Types of Environmental influence - ✔✔Internal & External
, ✔✔Environmental Influences - ✔✔Factors that lie outside the leader's competencies,
characteristics, and experiences
✔✔Internal Environmental Influences - ✔✔Outdated technology, facilities, expertise of
subordinates, and communication
✔✔External Environmental Influences - ✔✔Economic, political, or social issues; natural
disasters
✔✔Criticisms of the skills model - ✔✔Does not explain how skills lead to effective
leadership performance
Use of individual attributes is closely related to trait theory
✔✔Behavioral Approach to Leadership - ✔✔Focuses exclusively on what leaders do
and how they act
✔✔According to the behavioral approach, leadership is composed of what two kinds of
behaviors? - ✔✔Task behaviors and Relationship behaviors
✔✔Task behaviors facilitate what? - ✔✔Goal acccomplishments
✔✔Relationship Behaviors - ✔✔Help followers feel comfortable with themselves, with
each other, and with the situation in which they find themselves
✔✔Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) - ✔✔A questionnaire developed
in the Ohio State studies used to measure perceptions of a leader's style by his or her
subordinates
✔✔The Ohio State studies viewed what two behaviors as independent? - ✔✔Providing
structure & nurture; meaning that a leader could be high in both
✔✔The Michigan State studies identified what two types of leadership behaviors? -
✔✔Employee orientation & production orientation
✔✔How do the Michigan Studies differ from the Ohio State studies? - ✔✔Originally the
MS studies theorized that the two leadership behaviors were not independent of each
other, but actually on a continuum.
✔✔What is the best known model of managerial behavior? - ✔✔Managerial/Leadership
Grid
✔✔The Leadership Grid focuses on what two factors? - ✔✔Concern for production &
concern for people
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Knowledge - ✔✔The accumulation of information and the mental structures used to
organize that information
✔✔Schema - ✔✔a conceptual framework a person uses to make sense of the world
✔✔What are the four individual attributes that have an impact on leadership skills? -
✔✔General Cognitive Ability
Crystallized Cognitive Ability
Motivation
Personality
✔✔Fluid Intelligence - ✔✔Intelligence that usually grows and expands up through early
adulthood and then declines with age
✔✔General Cognitive Ability - ✔✔General intelligence that is linked to biology rather
than experience
✔✔Crystallized Cognitive Ability - ✔✔Intellectual ability that is learned or acquired over
time
✔✔3 aspects of motivation - ✔✔Willingness, dominance, and social good
✔✔Effective problem solving and performance are the outcomes of what? -
✔✔Leadership
✔✔Performance - ✔✔The degree to which a leader has successfully performed the
assigned duties.
✔✔Types of Environmental influence - ✔✔Internal & External
, ✔✔Environmental Influences - ✔✔Factors that lie outside the leader's competencies,
characteristics, and experiences
✔✔Internal Environmental Influences - ✔✔Outdated technology, facilities, expertise of
subordinates, and communication
✔✔External Environmental Influences - ✔✔Economic, political, or social issues; natural
disasters
✔✔Criticisms of the skills model - ✔✔Does not explain how skills lead to effective
leadership performance
Use of individual attributes is closely related to trait theory
✔✔Behavioral Approach to Leadership - ✔✔Focuses exclusively on what leaders do
and how they act
✔✔According to the behavioral approach, leadership is composed of what two kinds of
behaviors? - ✔✔Task behaviors and Relationship behaviors
✔✔Task behaviors facilitate what? - ✔✔Goal acccomplishments
✔✔Relationship Behaviors - ✔✔Help followers feel comfortable with themselves, with
each other, and with the situation in which they find themselves
✔✔Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) - ✔✔A questionnaire developed
in the Ohio State studies used to measure perceptions of a leader's style by his or her
subordinates
✔✔The Ohio State studies viewed what two behaviors as independent? - ✔✔Providing
structure & nurture; meaning that a leader could be high in both
✔✔The Michigan State studies identified what two types of leadership behaviors? -
✔✔Employee orientation & production orientation
✔✔How do the Michigan Studies differ from the Ohio State studies? - ✔✔Originally the
MS studies theorized that the two leadership behaviors were not independent of each
other, but actually on a continuum.
✔✔What is the best known model of managerial behavior? - ✔✔Managerial/Leadership
Grid
✔✔The Leadership Grid focuses on what two factors? - ✔✔Concern for production &
concern for people
