1. Which of the following statements regarding leaders and managers is NOT true?
a. A manager always has the ability to influence others; a leader may not.
b. A manager has a formal title and authority.
c. A leader may either be a manager or a nonmanager.
d. All managers perform four major functions: planning, organizing, leading, and
controlling.
2. Which of the following leadership theories attempts to explain distinctive characteristics for
leadership effectiveness?
a. interpersonal
b. trait
c. integrative
d. behavioral
3. Which of the following is NOT one of Mintzberg's interpersonal leadership roles?
a. figurehead
b. entrepreneur
c. leader
d. liaison
4. In your position, you serve on committees with people from outside of your organizational
units and attend professional meetings. These are expectations for Mintzberg's interpersonal
role of ___________.
a. disseminator
b. figurehead
c. liaison
d. resource-allocator
5. Your leader has asked you to design a new performance evaluation system. Designing the
system is an example of which of Mintzberg's managerial roles?
a. entrepreneur
b. interpersonal
c. disturbance-handler
d. negotiator
6. The three levels of analysis of leadership theory are ___________.
a. individual, group, and organizational
b. team, group, and organizational
c. leader, group, and organizational
d. interpersonal, leader, and group
7. The individual level of analysis which focuses on the leader's relationship with individual
followers is also called the ___________ process.
a. group
b. dyadic
c. organizational
d. conceptual
8. Early leadership studies were based on the assumption that leaders are ___________.
a. autocratic
b. primarily male
c. born, not made
d. also managers
9. Which of the following statements regarding personality is true?
a. Personality is developed based on genetics and environmental factors.
b. Personality predicts behavior and job performance.
c. Personality affects behavior as well as perceptions and attitudes.
d. All of the above.
10. The _________ personality dimension includes traits related to self-control and how well one
remains under pressure.
a. agreeableness
b. conscientiousness
c. surgency
d. adjustment
11. Of the Big Five personality dimensions, the highest correlation with leadership is _________.
a. conscientiousness
b. openness to experience
c. surgency
d. adjustment
12. Which of the following is NOT a trait of an effective leader?
a. dominance
b. high energy
c. intelligence
d. talent
13. Which of the following is NOT a belief of David McClelland?
a. Needs are based on personality.
b. All people possess the need for achievement, power, and affiliation, but to varying
degrees.
c. Our needs are motivated by our behavior.
d. Needs are developed as we interact with the environment.
14. The Leader Motive Profile (LMP) defines which motive as the highest need for leaders?
a. achievement
b. power
c. affiliation
d. enjoyment
15. ________ are positive or negative feelings about people, things, and issues.
a. Attitudes
b. Norms
c. Beliefs
d. Traits
16. A manager from a prestigious university believed that employees who were from "lesser
schools" lacked sufficient intelligence and motivation for the high-tech firm that she led.
She set goals for these employees low, and did not trust them with certain important tasks
or company information. The employees, in fact, tended to show dissatisfaction and low
performance. At length, many of them quit. This would be an example of ___________.
a. Theory Y
b. the Pygmalion effect
c. negative self-concept
d. None of the above.
17. The University of Iowa studies led to an era of ___________ research.
a. behavioral
b. trait
c. personality
d. participation
18. __________ is credited as being the first to identify the participative leadership style that is
commonly used today.
a. Maslow
b. Vroom
c. Herzberg
d. Likert
19. Based on extensive research, Blake and Mouton would expect the best performance from a
firm whose leadership ____________.
a. displays an ultimate priority of meeting employees' needs
b. sets the highest priority on task completion
c. puts a balanced and moderate managerial effort between meeting employees' needs
and task completion
d. puts the highest priority on both meeting employees' needs and task completion
20. Which of the following is NOT one of the four major assumptions that Abraham Maslow
based his hierarchy of needs theory on?
a. People's needs are arranged in order of importance going from basic to complex
needs.
b. People will not be motivated to satisfy a higher-level need unless the lower-level
need(s) has been at least minimally satisfied.
c. Both met and unmet needs motivate.
d. People have five classifications of needs.
21. To motivate his highest performers, a manager gives his highest performer each month an
"Employee of the Month" award and a parking space next to his. Of what motivational
theory is this an example?
a. goal-setting
b. equity
c. expectancy
d. Reinforcement theory
22. Which of the following is NOT a category of needs in the acquired needs theory?
a. success
b. power
c. achievement
d. affiliation
23. To motivate employees with a high n Pow, you should do all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Let them plan and control their jobs as much as possible.
b. Try to include them in decision making.
c. Try to assign them to a whole task rather than just a part of a task.
d. Let them work as part of a team.
24. The process motivation theories are alike in that all focus on ___________.
a. understanding how people choose behavior to fulfill their needs
b. explaining and predicting behavior based on people's needs
c. reinforcement of positive behaviors
d. giving praise
25. Today, more companies are looking for graduates with ___________.
a. more collective responsibility
b. international openness and flexibility
c. more holistic concern for employees
d. longer periods of employment
Text:
Leadership: Theory, Application, & Skill Development
Fifth Edition, 2013
ISBN-13: 9781111827076
Robert N. Lussier and Christopher F. Achua
Cengage Learning
a. A manager always has the ability to influence others; a leader may not.
b. A manager has a formal title and authority.
c. A leader may either be a manager or a nonmanager.
d. All managers perform four major functions: planning, organizing, leading, and
controlling.
2. Which of the following leadership theories attempts to explain distinctive characteristics for
leadership effectiveness?
a. interpersonal
b. trait
c. integrative
d. behavioral
3. Which of the following is NOT one of Mintzberg's interpersonal leadership roles?
a. figurehead
b. entrepreneur
c. leader
d. liaison
4. In your position, you serve on committees with people from outside of your organizational
units and attend professional meetings. These are expectations for Mintzberg's interpersonal
role of ___________.
a. disseminator
b. figurehead
c. liaison
d. resource-allocator
5. Your leader has asked you to design a new performance evaluation system. Designing the
system is an example of which of Mintzberg's managerial roles?
a. entrepreneur
b. interpersonal
c. disturbance-handler
d. negotiator
6. The three levels of analysis of leadership theory are ___________.
a. individual, group, and organizational
b. team, group, and organizational
c. leader, group, and organizational
d. interpersonal, leader, and group
7. The individual level of analysis which focuses on the leader's relationship with individual
followers is also called the ___________ process.
a. group
b. dyadic
c. organizational
d. conceptual
8. Early leadership studies were based on the assumption that leaders are ___________.
a. autocratic
b. primarily male
c. born, not made
d. also managers
9. Which of the following statements regarding personality is true?
a. Personality is developed based on genetics and environmental factors.
b. Personality predicts behavior and job performance.
c. Personality affects behavior as well as perceptions and attitudes.
d. All of the above.
10. The _________ personality dimension includes traits related to self-control and how well one
remains under pressure.
a. agreeableness
b. conscientiousness
c. surgency
d. adjustment
11. Of the Big Five personality dimensions, the highest correlation with leadership is _________.
a. conscientiousness
b. openness to experience
c. surgency
d. adjustment
12. Which of the following is NOT a trait of an effective leader?
a. dominance
b. high energy
c. intelligence
d. talent
13. Which of the following is NOT a belief of David McClelland?
a. Needs are based on personality.
b. All people possess the need for achievement, power, and affiliation, but to varying
degrees.
c. Our needs are motivated by our behavior.
d. Needs are developed as we interact with the environment.
14. The Leader Motive Profile (LMP) defines which motive as the highest need for leaders?
a. achievement
b. power
c. affiliation
d. enjoyment
15. ________ are positive or negative feelings about people, things, and issues.
a. Attitudes
b. Norms
c. Beliefs
d. Traits
16. A manager from a prestigious university believed that employees who were from "lesser
schools" lacked sufficient intelligence and motivation for the high-tech firm that she led.
She set goals for these employees low, and did not trust them with certain important tasks
or company information. The employees, in fact, tended to show dissatisfaction and low
performance. At length, many of them quit. This would be an example of ___________.
a. Theory Y
b. the Pygmalion effect
c. negative self-concept
d. None of the above.
17. The University of Iowa studies led to an era of ___________ research.
a. behavioral
b. trait
c. personality
d. participation
18. __________ is credited as being the first to identify the participative leadership style that is
commonly used today.
a. Maslow
b. Vroom
c. Herzberg
d. Likert
19. Based on extensive research, Blake and Mouton would expect the best performance from a
firm whose leadership ____________.
a. displays an ultimate priority of meeting employees' needs
b. sets the highest priority on task completion
c. puts a balanced and moderate managerial effort between meeting employees' needs
and task completion
d. puts the highest priority on both meeting employees' needs and task completion
20. Which of the following is NOT one of the four major assumptions that Abraham Maslow
based his hierarchy of needs theory on?
a. People's needs are arranged in order of importance going from basic to complex
needs.
b. People will not be motivated to satisfy a higher-level need unless the lower-level
need(s) has been at least minimally satisfied.
c. Both met and unmet needs motivate.
d. People have five classifications of needs.
21. To motivate his highest performers, a manager gives his highest performer each month an
"Employee of the Month" award and a parking space next to his. Of what motivational
theory is this an example?
a. goal-setting
b. equity
c. expectancy
d. Reinforcement theory
22. Which of the following is NOT a category of needs in the acquired needs theory?
a. success
b. power
c. achievement
d. affiliation
23. To motivate employees with a high n Pow, you should do all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Let them plan and control their jobs as much as possible.
b. Try to include them in decision making.
c. Try to assign them to a whole task rather than just a part of a task.
d. Let them work as part of a team.
24. The process motivation theories are alike in that all focus on ___________.
a. understanding how people choose behavior to fulfill their needs
b. explaining and predicting behavior based on people's needs
c. reinforcement of positive behaviors
d. giving praise
25. Today, more companies are looking for graduates with ___________.
a. more collective responsibility
b. international openness and flexibility
c. more holistic concern for employees
d. longer periods of employment
Text:
Leadership: Theory, Application, & Skill Development
Fifth Edition, 2013
ISBN-13: 9781111827076
Robert N. Lussier and Christopher F. Achua
Cengage Learning
