ORGB 327 LEADERSHIP FINAL EXAM WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS | 2024
Which of the following statements regarding managers and leaders is not true?
a. Managers focus on doing things right.
b. Leaders are concerned with maintaining stability.
c. Leaders place great concern on innovation and change.
d. Managers are concerned with the best way to get the job done.
e. Successful managers use a truly participative form of leadership. - b. Leaders are
concerned with maintaining stability.
A manager is attending a company workshop called the Leadership Grid to help him
improve his effectiveness as a manager. The manager will learn how to implement a
high concern for getting the job done while showing concern for the workers. This
workshop best illustrates which leadership theory paradigm?
a. trait
b. behavioural
c. contingency
d. management to leadership - b. behavioural
The ___________ leadership theory paradigm attempts to explain the appropriate
leadership style based on the leader, followers, and situation.
a. trait
b. behavioural
c. contingency
d. situational - c. contingency
4 According to Mintzberg, which of the following is a managerial role category?
a. interpersonal
b. intrapersonal
c. technical
d. integrative - a. interpersonal
Leaders perform the role --- when they represent the organization or department in
legal, social, and ceremonial activities.
a. symbolic
b. liaison
c. negotiator
d. disturbance handler
e. figurehead - e. figurehead
Which of the following is not a trait identified within the Big Five Model of Personality
Traits?
, a. dominance
b. high energy
c. intelligence
d. talent
e. locus of control - d. talent
Research has found that, overall, the problem of derailed managers is:
a. lack of skills and knowledge.
b. poor human relations skills.
c. working too hard and burning out.
d. over-managing and inability to delegate or build a team.
e. betrayal of personal trust. - b. poor human relations skills
As a leader or manager, it is important to know what influences ethical and unethical
behaviour. Which of the following would encourage ethical behaviour?
a. highly competitive and unsupervised situations
b. the absence of a formal ethics policy or code of ethics
c. punishment of unethical behaviour
d. diffusion of responsibility - c. punishment of unethical behaviour
People with a strong need for achievement (n Ach) tend to have all of the following
characteristics except
a. self-confidence.
b. external locus of control.
c. high energy traits.
d. a high concern for excellence - b. external locus of control
The idea that managers should let employees have full access to information that is not
confidential is consistent with
a. Theory Y.
b. Theory X.
c. the Pygmalion Effect.
d. the need for power effect. - a. Theory Y
Emotional intelligence (EI) includes all of the following except
a. self-awareness
b. self-esteem
c. self-management
d. relationship management - b. self-esteem
A team leader has concern for both production and people. According to Leadership
Grid theory this leadership style would fall in the ____________ area of the leadership
grid.
a. low-high
b. low-low
c. high-high
CORRECT ANSWERS | 2024
Which of the following statements regarding managers and leaders is not true?
a. Managers focus on doing things right.
b. Leaders are concerned with maintaining stability.
c. Leaders place great concern on innovation and change.
d. Managers are concerned with the best way to get the job done.
e. Successful managers use a truly participative form of leadership. - b. Leaders are
concerned with maintaining stability.
A manager is attending a company workshop called the Leadership Grid to help him
improve his effectiveness as a manager. The manager will learn how to implement a
high concern for getting the job done while showing concern for the workers. This
workshop best illustrates which leadership theory paradigm?
a. trait
b. behavioural
c. contingency
d. management to leadership - b. behavioural
The ___________ leadership theory paradigm attempts to explain the appropriate
leadership style based on the leader, followers, and situation.
a. trait
b. behavioural
c. contingency
d. situational - c. contingency
4 According to Mintzberg, which of the following is a managerial role category?
a. interpersonal
b. intrapersonal
c. technical
d. integrative - a. interpersonal
Leaders perform the role --- when they represent the organization or department in
legal, social, and ceremonial activities.
a. symbolic
b. liaison
c. negotiator
d. disturbance handler
e. figurehead - e. figurehead
Which of the following is not a trait identified within the Big Five Model of Personality
Traits?
, a. dominance
b. high energy
c. intelligence
d. talent
e. locus of control - d. talent
Research has found that, overall, the problem of derailed managers is:
a. lack of skills and knowledge.
b. poor human relations skills.
c. working too hard and burning out.
d. over-managing and inability to delegate or build a team.
e. betrayal of personal trust. - b. poor human relations skills
As a leader or manager, it is important to know what influences ethical and unethical
behaviour. Which of the following would encourage ethical behaviour?
a. highly competitive and unsupervised situations
b. the absence of a formal ethics policy or code of ethics
c. punishment of unethical behaviour
d. diffusion of responsibility - c. punishment of unethical behaviour
People with a strong need for achievement (n Ach) tend to have all of the following
characteristics except
a. self-confidence.
b. external locus of control.
c. high energy traits.
d. a high concern for excellence - b. external locus of control
The idea that managers should let employees have full access to information that is not
confidential is consistent with
a. Theory Y.
b. Theory X.
c. the Pygmalion Effect.
d. the need for power effect. - a. Theory Y
Emotional intelligence (EI) includes all of the following except
a. self-awareness
b. self-esteem
c. self-management
d. relationship management - b. self-esteem
A team leader has concern for both production and people. According to Leadership
Grid theory this leadership style would fall in the ____________ area of the leadership
grid.
a. low-high
b. low-low
c. high-high
