11 – 13 questions and answers well
illustrated.
Leadership involves the exercise of: - CORRECT ANSWER.Influence
When one person tries to influence another person's actions, the possible outcomes
are:
I: Resistance
II: Compliance
III: Commitment
IV: Resilience - CORRECT ANSWER.I, II, and III
True or False: Leading and managing are one and the same. - CORRECT ANSWER.False
"Leading is influencing, guiding in direction, course, action, opinion" and to manage
means "to bring about, to accomplish, to have charge of or responsibility for, to
conduct."
All of the following are activities of management EXCEPT:
Controlling and problem solving
Planning and budgeting
Aligning people
Organizing and staffing - CORRECT ANSWER.Aligning people
, Which of the following is NOT an activity of a leader?
Establishing direction
Controlling and problem solving
Inspiring
Motivating - CORRECT ANSWER.Controlling and problem solving
"Leaders are born and not made" is what theory of leadership? - CORRECT
ANSWER.Trait theory
According to behavior theory, the best leaders are and .-
CORRECT ANSWER.Task-oriented; people-oriented
The four behaviors in the Hersey-Blanchard Situational Theory of Leadership are: -
CORRECT ANSWER.Participating, selling, delegating, and telling
"Maturity" of the group means:
How long the group has been working together
How well the members understand the goals and roles
How well the group has been performing as a group
All of the above - CORRECT ANSWER.All of the above
What leadership behavior should be used when a new group is being formed? - CORRECT
ANSWER.Telling
A social learning theory which proposes that much of human behavior is learned
observationally through modeling. - CORRECT ANSWER.Behavior modeling training
The term "action learning" refers to which of these descriptions? - CORRECT
ANSWER.Bringing groups of leaders or leaders-in-training together to work on real
business problems
Coaching relationships work best when the coaches:
I: Are empathetic
II: Know all the answers
III: Are self-confident
IV: Tell the employee what to do - CORRECT ANSWER.I and III
Most of the learning about leadership occurs through: - CORRECT ANSWER.Job
experiences
The term "externship" means: - CORRECT ANSWER.Promising employees spending time at
another firm
True or False: A fully functioning and fully mature group still requires leadership. -
CORRECT ANSWER.False