MGT 6615 STANDARD ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔Which leadership style, according to Blake and Mouton, includes rewards and
approval for people in return for their loyalty and obedience? -
✔✔Paternalism/maternalism
✔✔I am the lead barista at a local coffee shop managing four staff. I love to chat with
them regularly, work with them on schedules that fit their needs, and work to develop
camaraderie amongst all. I do assign tasks and hold them accountable for the work, but
that is my secondary concern. My behavior would plot on the Blake & Mouton
Leadership Grid at what point? - ✔✔3, 8
✔✔Social judgment skill is similar to - ✔✔Katz's human skill
✔✔All of the following environmental influences are external except - ✔✔Inexperienced
followers
✔✔The structure of the skills approach is - ✔✔Consistent with leadership education
programs
✔✔The knowledge competency in the skills model is most similar to - ✔✔Katz's
conceptual skill
✔✔Which is not a social judgment skill? - ✔✔Knowledge acquisition
✔✔Leadership skills are defined in the chapter as - ✔✔Knowledge and competencies to
accomplish goals
✔✔The skills approach takes a _____________ on leadership, like the trait approach. -
✔✔Leader-centered perspective
,✔✔The breadth of the skills approach, which includes motivation, critical thinking, and
personality - ✔✔Is a weakness of this approach
✔✔Which of the following presents a competency-based approach to leadership? -
✔✔Skills approach
✔✔Jonathan has equally high skills in managing relationships with the employees he
supervises and in helping the firm shape the vision for growth. Applying Katz's skills
model, at what level of management is Jonathan? - ✔✔Top management
✔✔Which of the following is a strength of the behavioral approach? - ✔✔The wide
range of research on leadership behaviors gives it credibility
✔✔The behavioral approach explains - ✔✔Describing leader behaviors
✔✔I am able to identify task and relationship types of behaviors in my leader. I am
applying the main focus of which leadership theory? - ✔✔Behavioral
✔✔The behavioral approach describes - ✔✔What leaders do
✔✔Which scholar(s) created the Leadership Grid? - ✔✔Blake and Mouton
✔✔Which research group labeled task behaviors "initiating structure"? - ✔✔Ohio State
studies
✔✔Jamal enjoys interacting with the team members he supervises. He is employing -
✔✔Relationship behaviors
✔✔The individual attributes factor in the skills model suggests - ✔✔That the skills model
is not just a competency-based model.
✔✔The research Mumford et al. completed used a sample of - ✔✔Army officers
✔✔Skill in persuasion and communicating change describes which social judgment
competency? - ✔✔Social performance
✔✔Additional research completed by Mumford, Campion, and Morgeson used a four
skill model to assess cognitive, interpersonal, business, and strategic skills in managers
at junior and senior levels of an organization. The research findings in this study were
most similar to - ✔✔Katz's hierarchical three skills model
, ✔✔You recently received a promotion to a higher level of management within your
organization. This is your third promotion with your department. What best represents
this type of promotion and its outcomes? - ✔✔Career experiences
✔✔Mumford et al.'s model is characterized as a capability model because - ✔✔It
examines the relationship between knowledge and skills and leader performance
✔✔In the skills model, crystallized knowledge refers to - ✔✔Intellectual ability acquired
over time
✔✔Before the inception of the behavioral approach, leadership was treated exclusively
as a(n) - ✔✔Sets of skills
✔✔Your boss listens to employees' personal problems and tries to create a positive
work environment by being agreeable, eager to help, comforting, and uncontroversial.
This is an example of - ✔✔Country club leadership
✔✔Collectively among all the research on the Behavioral Approach, what is one
consistent finding from the research? - ✔✔There was no universal style determined to
be best
✔✔Which of the components on Blake & Mouton's Leadership Grid has medium
concern for interpersonal relationships and task accomplishment? - ✔✔Middle of the
road
✔✔You are required to report directly to your supervisor every morning. Upon arrival he
gives you a large list of tasks to be completed by the end of the day; he states he will be
checking in after lunch to see your progress. This is an example of - ✔✔Authority
compliance management
✔✔I am doing a training program for staff to help them understand how to integrate both
task and relationship behaviors in the workplace. I am applying the main components of
which approach in this training session? - ✔✔Behavioral
✔✔Researchers studying the behavioral approach determined that leadership is
composed of two general kinds of behaviors: - ✔✔Task and relationship
✔✔The basic premise of the skills approach is to - ✔✔identify the skills of leaders
✔✔The skills approach is - ✔✔not suitable for application across leadership contexts
✔✔Katz started the research focus on skills during a time when - ✔✔there was still
disagreement about leader traits in literature
SET A+
✔✔Which leadership style, according to Blake and Mouton, includes rewards and
approval for people in return for their loyalty and obedience? -
✔✔Paternalism/maternalism
✔✔I am the lead barista at a local coffee shop managing four staff. I love to chat with
them regularly, work with them on schedules that fit their needs, and work to develop
camaraderie amongst all. I do assign tasks and hold them accountable for the work, but
that is my secondary concern. My behavior would plot on the Blake & Mouton
Leadership Grid at what point? - ✔✔3, 8
✔✔Social judgment skill is similar to - ✔✔Katz's human skill
✔✔All of the following environmental influences are external except - ✔✔Inexperienced
followers
✔✔The structure of the skills approach is - ✔✔Consistent with leadership education
programs
✔✔The knowledge competency in the skills model is most similar to - ✔✔Katz's
conceptual skill
✔✔Which is not a social judgment skill? - ✔✔Knowledge acquisition
✔✔Leadership skills are defined in the chapter as - ✔✔Knowledge and competencies to
accomplish goals
✔✔The skills approach takes a _____________ on leadership, like the trait approach. -
✔✔Leader-centered perspective
,✔✔The breadth of the skills approach, which includes motivation, critical thinking, and
personality - ✔✔Is a weakness of this approach
✔✔Which of the following presents a competency-based approach to leadership? -
✔✔Skills approach
✔✔Jonathan has equally high skills in managing relationships with the employees he
supervises and in helping the firm shape the vision for growth. Applying Katz's skills
model, at what level of management is Jonathan? - ✔✔Top management
✔✔Which of the following is a strength of the behavioral approach? - ✔✔The wide
range of research on leadership behaviors gives it credibility
✔✔The behavioral approach explains - ✔✔Describing leader behaviors
✔✔I am able to identify task and relationship types of behaviors in my leader. I am
applying the main focus of which leadership theory? - ✔✔Behavioral
✔✔The behavioral approach describes - ✔✔What leaders do
✔✔Which scholar(s) created the Leadership Grid? - ✔✔Blake and Mouton
✔✔Which research group labeled task behaviors "initiating structure"? - ✔✔Ohio State
studies
✔✔Jamal enjoys interacting with the team members he supervises. He is employing -
✔✔Relationship behaviors
✔✔The individual attributes factor in the skills model suggests - ✔✔That the skills model
is not just a competency-based model.
✔✔The research Mumford et al. completed used a sample of - ✔✔Army officers
✔✔Skill in persuasion and communicating change describes which social judgment
competency? - ✔✔Social performance
✔✔Additional research completed by Mumford, Campion, and Morgeson used a four
skill model to assess cognitive, interpersonal, business, and strategic skills in managers
at junior and senior levels of an organization. The research findings in this study were
most similar to - ✔✔Katz's hierarchical three skills model
, ✔✔You recently received a promotion to a higher level of management within your
organization. This is your third promotion with your department. What best represents
this type of promotion and its outcomes? - ✔✔Career experiences
✔✔Mumford et al.'s model is characterized as a capability model because - ✔✔It
examines the relationship between knowledge and skills and leader performance
✔✔In the skills model, crystallized knowledge refers to - ✔✔Intellectual ability acquired
over time
✔✔Before the inception of the behavioral approach, leadership was treated exclusively
as a(n) - ✔✔Sets of skills
✔✔Your boss listens to employees' personal problems and tries to create a positive
work environment by being agreeable, eager to help, comforting, and uncontroversial.
This is an example of - ✔✔Country club leadership
✔✔Collectively among all the research on the Behavioral Approach, what is one
consistent finding from the research? - ✔✔There was no universal style determined to
be best
✔✔Which of the components on Blake & Mouton's Leadership Grid has medium
concern for interpersonal relationships and task accomplishment? - ✔✔Middle of the
road
✔✔You are required to report directly to your supervisor every morning. Upon arrival he
gives you a large list of tasks to be completed by the end of the day; he states he will be
checking in after lunch to see your progress. This is an example of - ✔✔Authority
compliance management
✔✔I am doing a training program for staff to help them understand how to integrate both
task and relationship behaviors in the workplace. I am applying the main components of
which approach in this training session? - ✔✔Behavioral
✔✔Researchers studying the behavioral approach determined that leadership is
composed of two general kinds of behaviors: - ✔✔Task and relationship
✔✔The basic premise of the skills approach is to - ✔✔identify the skills of leaders
✔✔The skills approach is - ✔✔not suitable for application across leadership contexts
✔✔Katz started the research focus on skills during a time when - ✔✔there was still
disagreement about leader traits in literature
