Chapter 1 – Introduction
Multiple Choice
1. argued that the major activities of management and leadership are played out
differently; but both are essential to an organization
a. Jago
b. Zaleznik
c. Kotter
d. Bass
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Leadership and Management
Question Type: MC
2. Power is described as
a. A relational concern for both leaders and followers
b. Use of force over others to manipulate them
c. Letting any follower do whatever he or she wants
d. Forcing people to engage in extreme
behaviors
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MC
3. The “Great Man/Person” trait definition of leadership
a. Is about the interaction between leaders and followers
b. Can be learned
c. Is restricted to those with inborn talent, qualities, or characteristics
d. Is about developing leadership skills
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Leadership Described
Question Type: MC
4. The four key elements of the definition of leadership used in the text are
a. Trait, goal, emergent, expert
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b. Process, influence, group, goal
c. Values, ethics, process, performance
d. Capability, competency, skill, relationship
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
5. In their discussion about management and leadership, Bennis and Nanus said that leaders
a. “Do things right”
b. “Do the right thing”
c. “Do what followers want”
d. “Do enough to get the job done”
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Management
Question Type: MC
6. People in the organization like me because I know what I am doing and share knowledge with
followers. I have
a. Position power
b. Personal power
c. Information power
d. Legitimate power
e. Reward power
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MC
7. Chief executive officers of any company have
a. Legitimate power
b. Referent power
c. Expert power
d. Personal power
e. Emergent power
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MC
8. I can emerge as the leader in my group project by
a. Telling all group members exactly what to do
b. Communicating and listening well with group members
c. Sitting at the head of the table
d. Being designated by the instructor as the group
leader
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Assigned versus Emergent Leadership
Question Type: MC
9. Kellerman argues that in the last forty years there has been a shift in leadership power from
a. Shared power to top down power
b. Leader dominated power to shared power with followers
c. Follower dominated power to shared power with leaders
d. Referent power focus to coercive power
focus
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MC
10. Information power is
a. Associated with having formal job authority
b. Based on followers liking of their leader
c. Derived from having the ability to provide rewards
d. Focused on the social contract between leaders and followers
e. Derived from possessing knowledge that others want or need
Ans: E
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MC
11. Who is said to engage leadership?
a. Followers
b. Groups
c. Organizations
d. Leader
s
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Definition and Components
Question Type: MC
12. Who is responsible for the leadership process?
a. Followers
b. Leaders
c. Organizations
d. Followers and leaders
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Definition and components
Question Type: MC
13. The common goals element of the definition of leadership means
a. Leaders and followers have a mutual purpose
b. Leaders and followers have similar personalities
c. Leaders and followers have similar interests
d. Leaders and followers have a mutual desire for
power
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Definition and components
Question Type: MC
14. The statement “She/he is born to be a leader” suggests a
a. Process definition of leadership
b. Trait definition of leadership
c. Gender bias definition of leadership
d. Coercive definition of
leadership
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Definition and components
Question Type: MC
15. Social identity theory would suggest leadership emergence occurs when
a. The group identifies with the leader
b. They acquire the skills to do the job well
c. The group assigns them the role of leader
d. They become most like the group prototype
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Assigned versus Emergent Leadership
Question Type: MC
16. Coercive leadership
a. Is not allowing a player to play in competition because he or she was late to practice
b. Is forcing followers to engage in extreme behaviors
c. Is using the influence relationship to affect change
d. Is supporting ethical behavior amongst team members
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Leadership and Coercion
Question Type: MC
17. To coerce means to
a. Influence others toward a common goal
b. Influence others to behave ethically
c. Influence others to do something against their will
d. Influence others using positive
rewards
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Coercion
Question Type: MC
18. Non-leadership is
a. A relational interaction between a group of people toward common goals
b. Sharing goal development with followers
c. Leadership that is focused on individual goals
d. Leadership that is focused on working with followers to achieve common
goals
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Coercion
Question Type: MC
19. The primary functions of leadership are
a. Directing, ruling, encouraging
b. Aligning, visioning, inspiring
c. Building, maintaining, staffing
d. Budgeting, controlling, problem solving
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Management
Question Type: MC
20. Simonet and Tett (2012) found that management is distinct from leadership by
a. Extrinsic motivation
b. Intrinsic motivation
c. Strategic planning
d. Creative thinking
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Management
Question Type: MC
21. Differences between management and leadership include
a. Leaders are emotionally involved, whereas managers have low emotional involvement
b. Managers shape ideas, whereas leaders are reactive in solving problems
c. Leaders are unidirectional influencers, whereas managers are multidirectional influencers
d. Leaders are controlling, whereas managers are motivating
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Management
Question Type: MC
22. The primary functions of management are
a. Producing change and movement
b. Producing positive leadership outcomes
c. Producing a creative vision
d. Producing order and consistency
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Management
Question Type: MC
23. One key to emerging as a leader
a. Is to be perceived by others as likable and knowledgeable
b. Is to be forceful in asserting your opinions
c. Is to avoid listening to opposing opinions
d. Is to be perceived by others as commanding and dominant
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Assigned versus Emergent
Question Type: MC
24. Which of the following bases of power are considered personal power?
a. Information
b. Referent
c. Coercive
d. Reward
e. Legitimate
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MC
25. Scholarly research and popular work on the nature of leadership exploded in this decade
a. 1950
b. 1960
c. 1970
d. 1980
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
26. The emerging approach called servant leadership
a. Focuses on followers needs
b. Focuses on traits
c. Focuses on adapting to solve problems
d. Focuses on spirituality
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
27. Which way of classifying leadership involves capabilities to make leadership possible?
a. Group process
b. Personality
c. Skills
d. Power
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
28. The process definition of leadership implies
a. Leadership is linear
b. Leadership is one-way, top-down
c. Leadership is leader centered
d. Leadership is reciprocal between leaders and
followers
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Definition and Components
Question Type: MC
29. Although there are clear differences between management and leadership,
a. There is little research to support one or the other
b. Leadership is more valued than management
c. The two constructs overlap
d. Management is more valued than
leadership
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and management
Question Type: MC
30. Argued that leaders and managers are distinct; they are different types of people
a. Jago
b. Zaleznik
c. Kotter
d. Bass
e. Burns
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Leadership and management
Question Type: MC
31. Leaders' power to provide pay raises and promotions is
a. Reward
b. Coercive
c. Legitimate
d. Referent
e. Expert
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MC
32. Defining leadership as a process means
a. It is a transactional event.
b. It is focused on influence.
c. It is an inborn trait or characteristic
d. It may only take place in groups.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
33. The following is not one of the classifications for a definition of leadership:
a. The focus of group process
b. An artistic process
c. A behavior
d. A personality trait
e. An instrument of goal achievement
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
34. The primary functions of management are
a. Planning, organizing, staffing, and controlling.
b. Forming, storming, norming, and reforming.
c. Building, breaking down, rebuilding, and maintaining.
d. Ruling, listening, adapting, and adjusting.
e. Directing, framing, extending, and
encouraging.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Leadership and management
Question Type: MC
35. Some positive communication behaviors that account for successful leader emergence are
a. Sense of humor, facial expressiveness.
b. Being dominant, speaking frequently.
c. Differentiating oneself from the group, challenging group norms.
d. Being informed, initiating new ideas.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Assigned versus Emergent
Question Type: MC
36. Leadership definitions have evolved during the 20th century in the following way:
a. The trait approach remains the most popular approach over time.
b. A leader's power remains a key requirement for goal accomplishment.
c. Focus on leadership effectiveness became prominent in the 1970s.
d. Leadership research peaked in the
1980s.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
37. Fisher associates all of the following positive communication behaviors with emergent
leadership, except
a. Being verbally involved
b. Establishing roles
c. Seeking others' opinions
d. Initiating new
ideas
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Assigned versus Emergent
Question Type: MC
38. You are told you need to work weekends. Your supervisor gives you a pay raise in return.
What type of power is your supervisor using?
a. Referent
b. Expert
c. Legitimate
d. Reward
e. Coercive
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MC
39. Leadership is a phenomenon that takes place in the context of the interaction between
leaders and followers. This viewpoint would suggest leadership is accessible by all:
a. Reward
b. Referent
c. Process
d. Trait
e. Legitimate
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
40. You really enjoy working for your boss and look up to her or him as a role model. You are
more than willing to work hard for the organization because of your relationship with your boss.
This is an example of
a. Legitimate power
b. Coercive power
c. Position power
d. Personal power
e. Reward power
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MC
41. On the way to track practice you get pulled over for speeding. When you arrive to practice
late, the coach makes you run laps. This is an example of
a. Legitimate power
b. Coercive power
c. Expert power
d. Personal power
e. Reward power
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MC
42. Often leadership occurs within a context where one individual influences a group of others
to accomplish goals. Which best describes this component of leadership?
a. Leadership occurs in groups.
b. Leadership involves influence.
c. Leadership includes organizations.
d. Leadership includes attention to common
goals.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
43. Watson and Hoffman's study on leadership emergence with regard to gender-biased
perceptions would suggest
a. Influential women were rated the same as men in terms of leadership.
b. Women are much more likeable than men.
c. Emergence in leadership has little to do with gender bias.
d. There continue to be barriers to women's emergence as leaders in some settings.
e. Men are always more influential within groups and organizations.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Assigned versus Emergent
Question Type: MC
44. Kotter suggested that management produces and .
a. Change and structure
b. Vision and order
c. Order and consistency
d. Change and
movement
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Leadership and management
Question Type: MC
45. Although there are clear differences between management and leadership,
a. There is little research to support one or the other.
b. Leadership is more valued than management.
c. The two constructs overlap.
d. Management is more valued than
leadership.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership and management
Question Type: MC
46. In which way will leadership and power be approached in upcoming chapters?
a. As a form of coercion.
b. As positional power.
c. From the perspective of the follower.
d. As a relational concern for both leaders and followers.
e. As a tool to be used by the leader.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
47. Understanding the nature of leadership has proved to be quite the challenge for
practitioners and researchers because
a. Its appeal is limited to academics and scholars.
b. Very little research has been done.
c. It has not received much attention.
d. It is a highly valued phenomenon that is very complex.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Summary
Question Type: MC
48. Your parents and older siblings are all successful elected officials. After graduation, it is
suggested by many that you should seek office and, in turn, offer you their support. Which best
describes the leadership approach being demonstrated?
a. Behavioral approach to leadership
b. Leadership as a process
c. Trait perspective
d. Expert power
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
49. As captain of the soccer team, your primary concern is winning games and maintaining
the strength of the team. Your players couldn’t care less about teamwork and just want to win.
Which component of leadership would you recommend the leader focus on?
a. Roles
b. Common goals
c. Process
d. Influence
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
50. The leader is at the core of group change and activity, representing the backbone of the group
or organization. Leadership is viewed as
a. Focus of group processes
b. Personality perspective
c. Leadership as an act
d. Leadership as a behavior
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
51. Jeffrey is the chief financial officer of an established marketing firm. He recently learned
that the company is going to try to merge with a new firm. He shares this potential merger with
only a few of his mid-level managers he trusts. Jeffrey has
a. Information and referent power
b. Reward and referent power
c. Information and legitimate power
d. Personal and information power
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MC
52. Coercive leadership is not considered ideal leadership as defined in this text because
a. Influence in leadership includes followers and leaders working toward a common goal
b. Process is a part of the definition in both coercion and leadership
c. Forcing and manipulative behaviors are legitimate leadership tactics
d. Coercive leadership involves both individual and common
goals
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MC
53. My boss really does not get the technical aspects of the job my group is trying to complete. I
understand the intricacies of the project and my team members come to me with all of their
questions. What has happened in this work setting?
a. I have taken control and power of the group
b. I have undermined my boss
c. I have emerged as the team leader
d. My boss is no longer a
leader
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Emergent and Assigned Leadership
Question Type: MC
54. Writing about and researching leadership is
a. Declining in popularity
b. A universally appealing topic
c. Simplistic rather than complex
d. Less popular in the business area than in social
sciences
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Summary
Question Type: MC
55. Leadership and management
a. Are completely separate entities
b. Occur only in large corporations
c. Occur only in small organizations
d. Are both needed in organizations
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Summary
Question Type: MC
56. The faculty member on my study abroad trip to Costa Rica has traveled there many times
and is quite knowledgeable about the country and places we visited. She gave us guidance about
the country, local culture, and safety issues while we were interning with the local farmers. The
faculty member was using
a. Referent power
b. Positional power
c. Coercive power
d. Expert power
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MC
57. Which of the following is a planning and budgeting management function?
a. Create a vision
b. Build teams and coalitions
c. Setting timetables
d. Aligning people
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Management
Question Type: MC
58. The trait definition of leadership suggests
a. Leadership occurs because of who the leader is
b. Interaction is the key to leadership success
c. Self-confidence is required for good leadership
d. Dominance is required for good leadership
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: MC
Multiple Selection
59. Leadership
a. Can be learned
b. Cannot be learned
c. Is about mutual influence
d. Is one-way influence
, C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Summary
Question Type: MC
60. Leaders have multidirectional influence, which means they
a. Are emotionally active and involved with followers
b. Decide actions for the followers
c. Motivate and inspire followers
d. Plan and control work schedules
, C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Described
Question Type: MS
61. An emergent leader
a. Holds a position in an organization
b. Is perceived as likable and knowledgeable
c. Uses communication skills to be perceived by others as leading the group
d. Is ranked higher than followers
, C
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Assigned versus Emergent Leadership
Question Type: MS
62. Which of the following bases of power are considered positional power?
a. Information
b. Referent
c. Coercive
d. Reward
e. Expert
, C, D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MS
63. The people on my work project team call me aside and share that they are unhappy with the
work of the team leader. They share that they feel I know more than the leader and they like my
style of interacting with them more than the team leader’s. What is happening in this team?
a. You are emerging as the leader
b. Legitimate power is diminished
c. Personal power is diminished
d. Influence of the team leader has gone
up , B
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Assigned versus Emergent and Leadership and Power
Question Type: MS
64. Leadership emergence can be affected by
a. Gender-biased perceptions
b. Rank in the organization
c. Fit with group prototype
d. Communication behaviors
, C, D
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Definition and components
Question Type: MS
65. Simonet and Tett (2012) explored how leadership and management are best conceptualized
and found
a. Overlap between leadership and management
b. Differences between leadership and management
c. Leadership and management are synonymous terms
d. Professionalism and goal setting are similar between leadership and management
, B, D
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Leadership and Management
Question Type: MS
66. Leadership and management are similar in that they both
a. Involve influence
b. Entail working with others
c. Are concerned with effective goal management
d. Focus on adaptive and constructive
change , B, C
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership and Management
Question Type: MS
67. Which of the following holds position power?
a. Vice president of a company
b. President of a student organization
c. Dean of a college
d. Sergeant in the military
, B, C, D
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MS
68. Which of the following has legitimate power?
a. The president of a company
b. A committee member
c. A college professor
d. A police
officer , C,
D
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MS
69. The director of study abroad had to cancel a trip because a travel advisory was issued
warning that the country to be visited was not safe for foreign travel. The director was using
a. Referent power
b. Positional power
c. Coercive power
d. Legitimate
power , D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: MS
True/False
70. The research on leadership generally has found it to be a relatively simple
process.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF
71. More than 60 different leadership classification systems have been developed.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF
72. Leadership occurs in both large and small groups.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF
73. According to Burns, followers should remember that their leaders are above them and act
accordingly.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF
74. The earliest leadership theories in the 20th century emphasized control and centralization of
power.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF
75. The view that leadership is a behavior rather than a trait emerged in the 1930s.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Box 1 and Leadership Defined
Question Type: TF
76. An individual perceived by other group members as influential can only be an
assigned leader, not an emergent one.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Assigned versus Emergent
Question Type: TF
77. A boss by definition usually has position power over subordinates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: TF
78. Leaders who use coercion are generally mostly interested in their own goals, rather
than those of subordinates.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and coercion
Question Type: TF
79. Kotter argues that managerial and leadership functions are really quite similar.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Management and Leadership
Question Type: TF
80. A factor common to the leadership classification systems is the view of leadership as a
process of influence.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Definition and components
Question Type: TF
81. Followers usually are responsible for maintaining the relationship with
leaders.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Definition and Components
Question Type: TF
82. The process definition of leadership states that certain individuals have inborn qualities
that differentiate them from non-leaders.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: TF
83. The governor of your state possesses French and Raven’s legitimate power.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: TF
84. A person who is seen by their team as likeable and friendly possesses reward power.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: TF
85. The trait definition of leadership occurs through the interaction between leaders and
followers.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Trait versus Process Leadership
Question Type: TF
86. As president of my student organization I have position power.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Leadership and Power
Question Type: TF
87. Leadership scholars have agreed on a singular definition of
leadership.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF
88. Spiritual leadership is an emerging leadership approach.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF
89. Using a process definition of leadership means it is available to
everyone.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Definition and Components
Question Type: TF
Essay
90. Using Hogg’s social identity theory, how could you coach a minority person who aspires to
leadership in his or her organization?
Ans: There are two facets to this answer: First, social identity theory suggests that emergence is
tied to a person's fit with the identity of the group as a whole. If a minority person does not fit the
racial/ethnic/gender profile of the majority, then he or she should identify other dimensions of
the group identity with which he or she does fit, such as political ideology or group mission, and
highlight those when seeking leadership. Second, research on emergent leadership identifies
some positive communication behaviors associated with leader emergence. Coaches should help
individuals practice speaking up in meetings, being well informed, being good listeners and
seeking out others' ideas, initiating new ideas, and being firm but not rigid.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Assigned vs. Emergent
Question Type: Essay
91. Defend or refute: Men and women are equally likely to emerge as leaders in mixed-sex
groups.
Ans: Research on emergent leadership identifies some positive communication behaviors
associated with leader emergence: speaking up in meetings, being well informed, being a good
listener and seeking out others' ideas, initiating new ideas, and being firm but not rigid. At the
same time, when men and women engage in these behaviors, they are perceived differently by
group members. In Watson and Hoffman's 2004 study, men and women were seen as equally
influential, but women were rated lower on leadership and likability. Depending on the group
and task, women and men may not have equal opportunity to emerge as group leaders.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Assigned vs. Emergent
Question Type: Essay
92. Using Kotter’s functions of management and leadership model to support your argument,
would you rather your direct supervisor be a leader or a manager? Use Kotter's model as a
reference to the specifics of each.
Ans: Either manager or leader could be chosen here as long as the answer is well supported. A
leader choice should consist of the key aspects suggested by Kotter: producing change and
movement, establishing direction, aligning people, and motivating and inspiring. The same
should be done if manager is chosen, focusing again on the following points: produces order and
consistency, planning and budgeting, organizing and staffing, and controlling and problem
solving.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Leadership and Management
Question Type: Essay
93. Using the definition of leadership as stated in the text—“Leadership is a process whereby an
individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal”—create an example
where a leader uses and demonstrates each component effectively. Clearly explain and show how
each component is present in your example. Use examples from the text to support your claims.
Ans: The following should be clearly identified and supported: Process–leadership discussed as
an interaction between leader and followers, as well as emphasis on its availability to everyone.
Influence–-a specific mention of how said influence is applied within the example. Groups–the
context of the example should in some way take place within a group or organizational setting.
Common goals–the goals of both the leader and the follower should be mentioned and discussed
as they relate to the other aspects of the definition.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: Essay
94. Are leaders born or made? Defend your answer with specific topics and research in the text
that supports your answer.
nswers will vary. Students who answer “born” should use the trait definition of
leadership and identify traits such as intelligence and height and dominance. Answers could
include information from Chapter 2 about the intuitive appeal of being able to identify a leader
by his or her traits, which makes followers want to follow. Students who answer “made” should
discuss the influence and interactive nature of the definition of leadership. They could include
that leaders develop over time as they interact with followers and learn how to interact with
others as they gain experience. They might include information from Chapter 3 in their answers
as well.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Leadership Defined
Question Type: Essay
Chapter 2: Trait Approach
Multiple Choice
1. Kirkpatrick and Locke’s research postulated that
a. Individuals are only born with traits
b. Traits can be learned
c. Traits cannot be learned
d. Traits are unimportant to leadership
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
2. Conducted two major surveys of research on the trait approach:
a. Stogdill
b. Judge et al.
c. Jung and Sosik
d. Zaccaro
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
3. Found several consistent traits among charismatic leaders:
a. Stogdill
b. Judge et al.
c. Jung and Sosik
d. Shankman and
Allen
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
4. Conducted studies of social intelligence and its relationship to leadership:
a. Stogdill
b. Judge et al.
c. Jung and Sosik
d. Zaccao
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
5. is described as those abilities to understand one’s own and others feelings,
behaviors and thoughts and to act appropriately.
a. Great Man theory
b. Social intelligence
c. Emotional intelligence
d. Big Five personalities
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
6. Persistence, dominance, and drive are characteristics of which trait?
a. Extraversion
b. Sociability
c. Determination
d. Intelligence
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description-Determination
Question Type: MC
7. is one of the five major leadership traits that focuses on a leader’s inclination
to seek out pleasant social relationships.
a. Surgency
b. Agreeableness
c. Extraversion
d. Intelligence
e. Sociabiliy
Ans: E
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
8. Research related to the trait approach has
a. Been a newer area of research.
b. Been around for over 100 years.
c. Not been a focus of researchers until recently.
d. Consisted of very few known models and
studies.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
9. In a major review in 1948, Stogdill suggested
a. No consistent set of traits differentiates leaders from non-leaders.
b. Leadership traits are independent of situation factors.
c. Extraversion is a definitive leadership trait.
d. A consistent set of traits differentiates leaders from nonleaders.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
10. Which best describes the overall results of Stogdill's second survey when compared with his
initial survey?
a. There was little to no difference in the findings.
b. Situational factors became less of a focus.
c. It was more balanced in its descriptions of the role of traits and leadership.
d. Personality played a larger role in leadership.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
11. Mary has managed the mailroom for 2 years. Management views Mary as a person with
special leadership talent, such as intelligence, sociability, and determination. What approach is
management using in assessing Mary?
a. Trait approach
b. Attributions approach
c. Behavioral approach
d. Managerial grid
approach
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
12. Stogdill’s second study found
a. No significant differences in traits from 1948 to 1974
b. Situational factors could not be identified
c. Emotional intelligence plays a significant role in leadership
d. Both traits and situational factors are determinants of
leadership
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
13. The following traits are associated with charismatic leadership:
a. Intelligence, self-confidence
b. Physical attractiveness, height
c. Desire for power, desire to help others
d. Self-monitoring, impression
management
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
14. The trait approach focuses on
a. Follower-leader interaction
b. Role of the leader
c. Role of the follower
d. Role of the organization
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
15. A manager arrives an hour early to work every day and is always completing his task early
as well as constantly striving for excellence within the organization. Which two traits best
represent the manager?
a. Articulate and self-confident
b. Dependable and diligent
c. Trustworthy and perceptive
d. Self-confident and empathetic
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
16. During the 2008 United States presidential election, Barack Obama demonstrated this
trait extensively and brought public attention to its value as it relates to leadership.
a. Readiness
b. Vigor
c. Charisma
d. Drive
e. Capacity
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
17. Being socially aware, possessing social acumen, practicing self-monitoring, and having the
ability to decide on the best response for any given situation, and then following through with
said decision, are part of Zaccaro's definition of
a. Problem solving
b. Intelligence
c. Task knowledge
d. Cognitive ability
e. Social
intelligence Ans: E
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
18. By comparing Stogdill's findings from his 1948 survey with the findings of his updated 1974
survey, which of the following was suggested?
a. Leadership research has progressed little.
b. That risk taking and originality no longer play a role in problem solving.
c. That situational factors no longer play a large role within leadership.
d. That both personality and situational factors were causals in
leadership.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
19. Founder and former CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, best demonstrated which trait?
a. Openness
b. Integrity
c. Sociability
d. Intelligence
e. Determination
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intelligence
Question Type: MC
20. A student who practices the piano daily and tries new music despite the difficulty
demonstrates which trait?
a. Determination
b. Sociability
c. Integrity
d. Self-awareness
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Determination
Question Type: MC
21. Developed a model of emotionally intelligent leadership:
a. Stogdill
b. Judge et al.
c. Jung and Sosik
d. Zaccaro
e. Shankman and
Allen Ans: E
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Emotional Intelligence
Question Type: MC
22. Goleman suggests that emotional intelligence is a set of
a. Ethical and emotional competencies
b. Social and perceptual competencies
c. Personal and social competencies
d. Cognitive and expressive competencies
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Emotional Intelligence
Question Type: MC
23. The underlying premise of emotional intelligence’s impact on leadership is
a. Intelligence is the most essential part of leadership
b. Sensitivity to personal emotions is most important to positive leadership
c. Understanding one’s own and others emotions provides a base for impactful leadership
d. Emotional intelligence has minimal impact on effective leadership
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Emotional Intelligence
Question Type: MC
24. The cognitive domain in emotional intelligence describes
a. Confidence
b. Feeling
c. Competency
d. Thinkin
g
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Emotional Intelligence
Question Type: MC
25. Emotional intelligence has to do with two different domains and the interplay between them.
Those two domains are
a. Task and process
b. Mind and body
c. Affective and cognitive
d. Traits and styles
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Emotional Intelligence
Question Type: MC
26. Shankman and Allen's (2002) model of emotionally intelligent leadership suggests leaders
must take into account these three fundamental facets of leadership:
a. Context, self, and others
b. Referent power, expert power, and legitimate power
c. Desire for power, desire to help others, and desire to win
d. Determination, integrity, and sociability
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Emotional Intelligence
Question Type: MC
27. Openness in the Big Five Personality Model is defined as
a. intellect, being informed, creativity
b. Sociable, assertive, high energy
c. Organized, dependable, decisive
d. Accepting, trusting, nurturing
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Five Factor Personality Model
Question Type: MC
28. The Big Five personality factor that is weakly associated with leadership is
a. Conscientiousness
b. Neuroticism
c. Agreeableness
d. Sociability
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Five Factor Personality Model
Question Type: MC
29. Which of the Big Five personality factors is also one of the five major traits identified in
the text?
a. Extraversion
b. Determination
c. Conscientiousness
d. Self-confidence
e. Intelligence
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Five Factor Personality Model
Question Type: MC
30. Of the Big Five personality factors, which is the most strongly associated with leadership?
a. Openness
b. Neuroticism
c. Social status
d. Extraversio
n
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Five Factor Personality Model
Question Type: MC
31. Found a strong relationship between the Big Five traits and leadership:
a. Stogdill
b. Judge et al.
c. Jung and Sosik
d. Zaccaro
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Five Factor Personality Model
Question Type: MC
32. The Big Five consists of all of the following factors except
a. Openness
b. Neuroticism
c. Conscientiousness
d. Dominanc
e
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Five Factor Personality Model
Question Type: MC
33. The trait approach is concerned with
a. Leadership situations
b. Leadership skills
c. Follower attributes
d. Leader
characteristics
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: How Does the Trait Approach Work
Question Type: MC
34. The trait approach is
a. No longer a viable leadership approach
b. Is primarily a focus of outdated research
c. Still a focus of contemporary leadership research
d. Irrelevant in modern society
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: How Does Trait Approach Work
Question Type: MC
35. A major strength of the trait approach is
a. There is a set list of traits that identify leadership
b. It is easy to identify the best traits for leadership
c. It can be used for leader training and development
d. It highlights the leader component of the leadership
process
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Strengths
Question Type: MC
36. Within an organization, the trait approach can be applied to
a. Low-level managers
b. Middle-level managers
c. Upper-level managers
d. All levels of the
organization
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Application
Question Type: MC
37. An organization requires you to fill out a personality assessment instrument as part of your
application process for a specific position with the organization. What best explains why they
would have you do this?
a. To place you with others who share the same traits.
b. To determine whether you fit their needs for the particular position.
c. To examine your attention to detail.
d. To decide on an amount for your salary.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Application
Question Type: MC
38. People want to be able to identify leaders as those who are leading the way in our society.
This is an example of what strength of the approach?
a. Century of research
b. Intuitive appeal
c. Benchmarking traits
d. Definitive list of traits
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Strengths
Question Type: MC
39. Having a benchmark for what to look for if we want to be leaders is about
a. Trying to develop specifically the five major traits in the text
b. Giving a boss a specific set of traits to look for in potential new hires
c. Helping individuals see their own traits and decide if these are leadership traits
d. Specifically determining traits for a particular job promotion
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Strengths
Question Type: MC
40. A strength of the trait approach
a. Self-confidence is the trait most important to leadership
b. There is a clear list of leader traits
c. Identifying traits is highly objective
d. It is appealing to identify special traits in
leaders
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Strengths
Question Type: MC
41. Which of the following is not a strength of the trait approach?
a. Self-confidence is the trait most important to leadership
b. It is appealing to identify special traits in leaders
c. More than a century of research has been conducted on traits
d. It provides a benchmark for what traits to look for in individuals
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Strengths
Question Type: MC
42. A major criticism of the trait approach is
a. It’s intuitive appeal
b. There is no definitive list of leadership traits
c. It highlights the leader component in the leadership process
d. Research on leadership traits is fairly
new
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Criticisms
Question Type: MC
43. The trait approach
a. Takes situations into account
b. Is highly objective
c. Is quite useful for training programs
d. Has not found one definitive list of leadership
traits
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Criticisms
Question Type: MC
44. Individuals displaying the five major traits in the text
a. Are leaders in their workplace
b. Also display other leader traits in their workplace
c. May be leaders in their workplace
d. Also display dominance in their
workplace
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Criticisms
Question Type: MC
45. Research over the past 100 years on leadership traits
a. Has clear and unambiguous findings
b. Has produced a definitive list of traits
c. Has described leader traits that are common to all situations
d. Has failed to produce a definitive list of
traits
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Criticisms
Question Type: MC
46. Arif is the leader of a small group of human resources professionals. Two of these staff
members, Nina and Bohan, disagree about the leadership traits that Arif displays in their work
situation. This disagreement described which of the main criticisms of the trait approach?
a. High subjectivity
b. Century of research
c. Lack of leadership emergence
d. Usefulness in training and
development
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Criticisms
Question Type: MC
47. The trait approach is criticized for its failure to take into consideration.
a. Emotional intelligence
b. Personality
c. Differences in leaders
d. Situations
e. Role of the leader
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Criticisms
Question Type: MC
48. I just had an argument with my supervisor about going over budget on my project. I had
strong emotions during the argument and now I and thinking about how to improve my mood at
work. This thinking about my emotions is
a. In the affective domain of emotional intelligence
b. In the cognitive domain of emotional intelligence
c. Is affective judgment of my emotions
d. Is neither affective nor cognitive judgment of my emotions
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Emotional Intelligence
Question Type: MC
49. Social competence in emotional intelligence includes
a. Empathy
b. Self-regulation
c. Confidence
d. Motivation
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Emotional Intelligence
Question Type: MC
50. Goleman suggests that emotional intelligence
a. Is not as important to leadership as IQ
b. Is less important for meeting life’s challenges than traits
c. Plays a major role in a person’s success
d. Plays a major role at only the top management
levels
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Emotional Intelligence
Question Type: MC
51. Applying the trait approach to 21st century leadership
a. Lacks credibility
b. Helps us understand behaviors of leaders
c. Informs that leader’s traits are a part of leadership process
d. Tells us which traits are important in which contexts
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: How Does Trait Work?
Question Type: MC
52. More research has been conducted on this approach than any other.
a. Trait
b. Skills
c. French and Raven’s
d. Path–goal
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Strengths
Question Type: MC
53. When trying to identify who leaders are, I am using approach.
a. Skills
b. Trait
c. Behavioral
d. Social judgment
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
54. The 100 or more years of research on traits was completed originally to
a. To distinguish between traits and behaviors
b. To define the five major traits associated with leadership
c. To distinguish between traits and skills
d. Determine a universal set of traits associated with
leadership
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Summary
Question Type: MC
55. Which of the following is a strength of the trait approach?
a. It includes behaviors as a central component
b. It is used in many leadership training and development programs
c. It helps followers fulfill their need to see their leaders as gifted and special
d. It has a definitive set of traits that researchers agree upon
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Strengths
Question Type: MC
56. The five traits that have been found to be the set of traits leaders must have to be
considered leaders are
a. Intelligence, sociability, self-confidence, integrity, determination
b. Self-confidence, social judgment, integrity, determination, extraversion
c. There is not a set of traits that all leaders must have
d. There is a set of leader traits that all leaders must have, just not those listed above
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Summary
Question Type: MC
57. A leader who is assured and dominant in her manner is expressing
a. Agreeableness
b. Openness
c. Integrity
d. Selfconfidence Ans:
D
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Summary
Question Type: MC
58. is one of Northouse’s five major leadership traits focused on a leader’s
inclination to seek out pleasant social relationships.
a. Surgency
b. Agreeableness
c. Extraversion
d. Sociabilit
y
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Sociability
Question Type: MC
59. The vast majority of research on traits from early to modern day has found
a. Leaders are different from non-leaders
b. Masculinity is a common theme
c. Dominance is a common theme
d. Leaders and followers appear much the
same
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
60. Zaccaro et. al. in 2004 analyzed several studies about
a. Masculinity and leadership
b. Self-confidence and leadership
c. Intelligence and leadership
d. Sociability and leadership
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intelligence
Question Type: MC
61. Intelligence as a leader characteristic is found in which of the following approaches?
a. Behavioral and Trait
b. Trait and Situational
c. Skills and Behavioral
d. Skills and
Trait
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Summary
Question Type: MC
62. For effective leadership, intelligence of leaders should be
a. Fairly similar to their followers
b. Lower than their followers
c. Significantly higher than their followers’
d. Levels of intelligence do not matter in
leadership
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Intelligence
Question Type: MC
63. The tendency to be thorough, dependable, organized, and decisive describes which Big Five
personality factor?
a. Openness
b. Conscientiousness
c. Low neuroticism
d. Self-confidence
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Five Factor Model
Question Type: MC
Multiple Selection
64. Which of the following traits are not among the five major leadership traits identified in the
text?
a. Openness
b. Integrity
c. Sociability
d. Agreeableness
e. Determination
, D
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MS
65. Social competencies in emotional intelligence include
a. Empathy
b. Conflict management
c. Self-awareness
d. Self-confidence
, B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Emotional Intelligence
Question Type: MS
66. Emotional intelligence includes our ability to perceive and
a. Manipulate emotions of others
b. Manage emotions of others
c. Express emotions
d. Use emotions to facilitate
thinking , D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Emotional Intelligence
Question Type: MS
67. Emotional intelligence includes our ability to perceive and
a. Express emotions
b. Use emotions to facilitate thinking
c. Reason/understand emotions
d. Manage emotions within
oneself , B, C, D
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Emotional Intelligence
Question Type: MS
68. Completing a personal assessment of one’s own leadership traits
a. Helps individuals assess their own strengths
b. Helps individuals determine their potential for promotion
c. Helps individuals understand how they fit into an organization
d. Helps organizations choose lower-level managers
, C
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: How Does the Trait Approach Work
Question Type: MS
69. Taking a trait assessment can help people
a. Gain insight about their own traits
b. Pinpoint their weaknesses
c. Recognize potential traits to develop
d. Manipulate others to gain a higher standing in their organization
, B, C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Application
Question Type: MS
70. Mann’s study in 1959
a. Focused on situational factors in leadership
b. Reviewed studies on traits of leaders in small groups
c. Suggested that certain traits could be used to identify leaders from non-leaders
d. Described leader traits in terms of social perceptiveness rather than
dominance , C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MS
True/False
71. Openness is one of the five traits in the text that focuses on honesty and trustworthiness.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Big Five Personality Model
Question Type: TF
72. A strength of the trait approach is that it links specific leader traits to organizational
outcomes.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Strengths
Question Type: TF
73. The trait approach focuses primarily on the leader, not on the followers or the situation.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: How Does the Trait Approach Work?
Question Type: TF
74. The great person approach stresses that leaders' traits are learned.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: TF
75. The great person approach focuses on important political leaders.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: TF
76. The trait approach has a century of research to back it up.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Strengths
Question Type: TF
77. The trait approach failed to identify a definitive set of specific leadership traits.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Criticism
Question Type: TF
78. In his early studies, Stogdill found that leaders in one situation would almost always be
leaders in another situation.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: TF
79. Stogdill's later studies argued that personality and situational factors were both determinants
of leadership.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: TF
80. A major strength of the trait approach is that it is quite useful for training.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Strengths
Question Type: TF
81. Some studies have suggested that masculinity is a leadership trait.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: TF
82. The trait approach determines the most important traits in a highly objective way.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: How Does the Trait Approach Work?
Question Type: TF
83. The trait approach determines the most important traits in a highly objective way.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: How Does the Trait Approach Work?
Question Type: TF
84. Of all the traits that are related to leadership, intelligence is probably the strongest (most
consistent).
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: TF
85. In application, the trait approach can help individuals pinpoint their strengths and
weaknesses.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Application
Question Type: TF
86. The trait approach emphasizes that leadership resides within the individual.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: TF
87. A high level of neuroticism is positively correlated with leadership in Judge’s research.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Big Five Personality
Question Type: TF
88. The Big Five and leadership meta-analysis found that the factor most strongly associated
with leadership is conscientiousness.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Five Factor Personality Model
Question Type: TF
89. The trait approach successfully identified one list of specific leader traits.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Criticisms
Question Type: TF
90. The trait approach determines the most important traits in a highly objective way.
a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Criticisms
Question Type: TF
Essay
91. Why has the trait approach failed to provide a definitive list of leadership traits?
Ans: The approach has failed to take into account the impact of different situations, which may
call for different traits. The traits are not consistently operationalized and measured between
studies. Lists of important leadership traits are often subjective.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Criticisms
Question Type: Essay
92. Defend or refute: Personality assessment instruments are accurate ways of identifying
potential leaders within organizations.
Ans: If one holds the view that personal attributes are fixed and cannot be developed, then
identifying desired traits is one way of assessing potential leadership of organizational members.
Assessment instruments are limited in effectiveness in that organizations and their environments
change over time and the traits that serve members well in one setting may be less effective in
another. If one holds the view that personal attributes can be developed, then assessment
instruments may be useful in identifying initial desirable traits and, later on, measuring members'
progress in developing these traits. Personality assessment instruments, however, do not give the
full picture of a person's capabilities.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Five-factor Personality Model
Question Type: Essay
93. Of the five major leadership traits discussed in the chapter, which would you claim to be the
most important? Which the least important? Support your claim with specific examples from the
chapter.
Ans: The following traits should be referenced and supported through examples that demonstrate
specifics of each: Intelligence: Having strong verbal ability, perceptual ability, and reasoning
appears to make one a better leader. Should not differ much from the follower as this may cause
communication problems. Self-confidence: the ability to be certain about one's competencies
and skills, closely tied to influence. Determination: Determination is the desire to get the job
done and includes characteristics such as initiative, persistence, dominance, and drive.
Integrity: Leaders with integrity inspire confidence in others because they can be trusted to do
what they say they are going to do. Sociability: Leaders who show sociability are friendly,
outgoing, courteous, tactful, and diplomatic.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: Essay
94. Are leaders born or made? Defend your answer using information from either trait or skills
approach.
nswers will vary. Trait answers should include leaders are born because they have inborn
traits that help them be identified as leaders by their followers. Not all people can possess these
traits and people cannot really develop a trait. Therefore leaders are born not made.
Skills answers include leaders are made because skills and competencies can be learned and
developed. This makes leadership available to everyone if individuals take the time, energy, and
reflection to develop their skills for good leadership outcomes.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Application
Question Type: Essay
95. How do the Big Five personality factors relate to the five major leadership traits identified in
the text?
nswers will vary. Self-confidence is similar to extraversion in the sociable and assertive
area. Intelligence is similar to openness in that the insightful and informed and creative relate
somewhat to reasoning capacity. Agreeableness and sociability share the accepting and nurturing
or human capacities. Determination and conscientiousness are similarly focused on dependability
and getting things done. Neuroticism is not what we want in leaders, and integrity as a
leadership trait is not part of the Big Five explicitly.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Five-factor Personality Model
Question Type: Essay
Chapter 3: Skills Approach
Multiple Choice
1. According to Katz’s skills model, which two skills are most important for supervisory- (low-)
level managers to be successful leaders?
a. Technical skill and human skill
b. Human skill and conceptual skill
c. Technical skill and conceptual skill
d. All three skills are equally important for supervisory level
management
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Three Skills Approach
Question Type: MC
2. The skills approach takes a on leadership, like the trait approach.
a. Leader-follower centered perspective
b. Organizational-centered perspective
c. Situational-centered perspective
d. Leader-centered
perspective
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
3. Which of the following presents a competency-based approach to leadership?
a. Trait approach
b. Skills approach
c. Style approach
d. Great person approach
e. Psychodynamic
approach
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
4. are what leaders can accomplish, whereas are who leaders are.
a. Traits and outcomes
b. Behaviors and skills
c. Skills and traits
d. Outcomes and skills
e. Goals and skills
Answer Location: Description
5. The research Katz completed for his article describing the skills of an effective administrator
a. Was quantitative research
b. Was qualitative research
c. Was a meta-analysis of skills research
d. Was research focused on attributes of leaders
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
6. Leadership skills research attempts to
a. Identify largely fixed abilities in leaders
b. Identify multiple behaviors in leaders
c. Identify personality factors of leadership
d. Identify competencies that can be acquired by
leaders
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Description
Question Type: MC
7. The classic article “Skills of an Effective Administrator” by Katz was published in the
a. Journal of Leadership Education
b. Harvard Business Review
c. Journal of Education and Behavior
d. Forbes Business Journal
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Description
Question Typ
8. Developed the Three Skill Model of leadership.
a. Katz
b. Stogdill
c. Goleman
d. Mumford et al.
e. Zaccaro
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Three Skill Approach
Question Type: MC
9. Leadership skills are defined in the chapter as
a. Using individual attributes to communicate well with others
b. Developing behaviors for effective leadership outcomes
c. Technical ability to interact in the work environment
d. Knowledge and competencies to accomplish
goals
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Three Skill Approach
Question Type: MC
10. Technical skills are the
a. Ability to work with things
b. Ability to work cooperatively with others
c. Ability to work with ideas
d. Ability to be behaviorally
flexible
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Technical Skill
Question Type: MC
11. At the upper-management level in an organization
a. Technical skills are not important
b. Human skills are not important
c. Technical skills are more important than conceptual skills
d. Technical skills are less important than human
skills
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Technical Skill
Question Type: MC
12. Human skills are