MGT 6615 FINAL EXAMS ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔How can high intelligence be counterproductive for leaders? - ✔✔Leaders with
higher abilities may have difficulty communicating with followers because their ideas are
too advanced for their followers to accept
✔✔What is the optimal IQ for perceived leadership? - ✔✔One standard deviation above
the mean IQ of the group
✔✔Self-Confidence - ✔✔The ability to be certain about one's competencies and skills
✔✔Determination - ✔✔The desire to get the job done
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔Honesty and trustworthiness
✔✔Sociability - ✔✔Inclination to seek out pleasant social relationships
✔✔Which Big 5 dimension is most strongly related with leadership? - ✔✔Extraversion
✔✔How is agreeableness related to leadership? - ✔✔Weak relationship
✔✔Which Big 5 dimension is most strongly correlated with overall job performance? -
✔✔Conscientiousness
✔✔Strengths - ✔✔An attribute or quality of an individual that accounts for successful
performance
✔✔Emotional Intelligence - ✔✔Ability to effectively manage emotions within oneself and
in relationships with others
✔✔MSCEIT (Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence test) - ✔✔Measures
emotional intelligence as a set of mental abilities
, ✔✔Shankman and Allen developed a practice-oriented model of emotionally intelligent
leadership, which suggests that leaders must be conscious of what three fundamentals?
- ✔✔Context, self, and others
✔✔Strengths of the Trait Approach - ✔✔Intuitively appealing
Centuries of research
Focuses solely on the leader
✔✔Weaknesses of Trait Approach - ✔✔Failure to define a definitive list of leadership
traits
Fails to take situations into account
Highly subjective
Not useful in training/development off leaders
✔✔Skills Approach to Leadership - ✔✔Knowledge and abilities are needed for effective
leadership and can be developed
✔✔Katz suggests that effective administration depends on what 3 basic skills? -
✔✔Technical
Human
Conceptual
✔✔Skills vs Traits - ✔✔Skills are what leaders can accomplish, whereas traits are who
leaders are
✔✔Skills - ✔✔Ability to use one's knowledge and competencies to accomplish a set of
goals or objectives
✔✔Technical Skills - ✔✔knowledge about and proficiency in a specific type of work or
activity
✔✔Human Skills - ✔✔Knowledge about and ability to work with people
✔✔Skills needed for Top Management - ✔✔Human & Conceptual
✔✔Skills Needed for Middle Management - ✔✔Equal parts Human, Conceptual, and
Technical
✔✔Skills needed for Supervisory (Lower Level) Management - ✔✔Technical & Human
✔✔Conceptual Skills - ✔✔The mental ability to analyze and diagnose complex
situations
SET A+
✔✔How can high intelligence be counterproductive for leaders? - ✔✔Leaders with
higher abilities may have difficulty communicating with followers because their ideas are
too advanced for their followers to accept
✔✔What is the optimal IQ for perceived leadership? - ✔✔One standard deviation above
the mean IQ of the group
✔✔Self-Confidence - ✔✔The ability to be certain about one's competencies and skills
✔✔Determination - ✔✔The desire to get the job done
✔✔Integrity - ✔✔Honesty and trustworthiness
✔✔Sociability - ✔✔Inclination to seek out pleasant social relationships
✔✔Which Big 5 dimension is most strongly related with leadership? - ✔✔Extraversion
✔✔How is agreeableness related to leadership? - ✔✔Weak relationship
✔✔Which Big 5 dimension is most strongly correlated with overall job performance? -
✔✔Conscientiousness
✔✔Strengths - ✔✔An attribute or quality of an individual that accounts for successful
performance
✔✔Emotional Intelligence - ✔✔Ability to effectively manage emotions within oneself and
in relationships with others
✔✔MSCEIT (Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence test) - ✔✔Measures
emotional intelligence as a set of mental abilities
, ✔✔Shankman and Allen developed a practice-oriented model of emotionally intelligent
leadership, which suggests that leaders must be conscious of what three fundamentals?
- ✔✔Context, self, and others
✔✔Strengths of the Trait Approach - ✔✔Intuitively appealing
Centuries of research
Focuses solely on the leader
✔✔Weaknesses of Trait Approach - ✔✔Failure to define a definitive list of leadership
traits
Fails to take situations into account
Highly subjective
Not useful in training/development off leaders
✔✔Skills Approach to Leadership - ✔✔Knowledge and abilities are needed for effective
leadership and can be developed
✔✔Katz suggests that effective administration depends on what 3 basic skills? -
✔✔Technical
Human
Conceptual
✔✔Skills vs Traits - ✔✔Skills are what leaders can accomplish, whereas traits are who
leaders are
✔✔Skills - ✔✔Ability to use one's knowledge and competencies to accomplish a set of
goals or objectives
✔✔Technical Skills - ✔✔knowledge about and proficiency in a specific type of work or
activity
✔✔Human Skills - ✔✔Knowledge about and ability to work with people
✔✔Skills needed for Top Management - ✔✔Human & Conceptual
✔✔Skills Needed for Middle Management - ✔✔Equal parts Human, Conceptual, and
Technical
✔✔Skills needed for Supervisory (Lower Level) Management - ✔✔Technical & Human
✔✔Conceptual Skills - ✔✔The mental ability to analyze and diagnose complex
situations
