RPTA 255 QUIZ #1 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
trait theories Ans✓✓✓theories that consider personal qualities and
characteristics that differentiate leaders from nonleaders
- people inherit certain qualities and traits that make them better suited
to leadership
- certain personality traits associated with leadership
Great "Man" Theory Ans✓✓✓a theory of leadership that explained
leadership by examining the traits and characteristics of individuals
considered to be historically great leaders
- natural born leader
- characteristics such as charisma, confidence, social skills
- inherit these skills
-heroic
- born with or without leadership skills
Behavioral Theories Ans✓✓✓leadership theories that identify behaviors
that differentiated effective leaders from ineffective leaders
- based on the belief that great leaders are made, not born
- focuses on actions not mental qualities or internal states
- People can learn to become leaders through teaching and observations
, autocratic leadership Ans✓✓✓leadership style that involves making
managerial decisions without consulting others
- forthright, directive, assertive
- make important decisions, more concerned with accomplishing a task
than with the satisfaction of followers
- maintain considerable social distance from followers
- motivate followers by threat of punishment rather than reward
Democratic Leadership Ans✓✓✓A form of leadership in which the
leader solicits input from subordinates.
- make final decisions but invite group members to participate in
decision making process
- slower process
-listens to followers
- trust and respect between leader and follower
laissez-faire leadership Ans✓✓✓a form of "leadership" characterized by
a general failure to take responsibility for leading
- leader gives group members free rein to do their work and figure out
how to reach their goals
-shy away from group members and their tasks and avoids decision
making responsibilities
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) ALREADY GRADED A+
trait theories Ans✓✓✓theories that consider personal qualities and
characteristics that differentiate leaders from nonleaders
- people inherit certain qualities and traits that make them better suited
to leadership
- certain personality traits associated with leadership
Great "Man" Theory Ans✓✓✓a theory of leadership that explained
leadership by examining the traits and characteristics of individuals
considered to be historically great leaders
- natural born leader
- characteristics such as charisma, confidence, social skills
- inherit these skills
-heroic
- born with or without leadership skills
Behavioral Theories Ans✓✓✓leadership theories that identify behaviors
that differentiated effective leaders from ineffective leaders
- based on the belief that great leaders are made, not born
- focuses on actions not mental qualities or internal states
- People can learn to become leaders through teaching and observations
, autocratic leadership Ans✓✓✓leadership style that involves making
managerial decisions without consulting others
- forthright, directive, assertive
- make important decisions, more concerned with accomplishing a task
than with the satisfaction of followers
- maintain considerable social distance from followers
- motivate followers by threat of punishment rather than reward
Democratic Leadership Ans✓✓✓A form of leadership in which the
leader solicits input from subordinates.
- make final decisions but invite group members to participate in
decision making process
- slower process
-listens to followers
- trust and respect between leader and follower
laissez-faire leadership Ans✓✓✓a form of "leadership" characterized by
a general failure to take responsibility for leading
- leader gives group members free rein to do their work and figure out
how to reach their goals
-shy away from group members and their tasks and avoids decision
making responsibilities
