Leadership Skills

___________ is increasing Leadership rapidly

• Strategy

• Command

• Control

• Getting others to follow

Regarding leadership, which statement is false?

• Leadership does not necessarily take place within a hierarchical structure of an organisation

• When people operate as leaders their role is always clearly established and defined

• Not every leader is a manager

• All of the above

__________ are the approaches to the study of leadership which emphasise the personality of the leader:

• Contingency theories

• Group theories

• Trait theories

• Inspirational theories

The effectiveness of a leader is dependent upon meeting _______ areas of need within the workgroup:

• One

• Three

• Five

• None of the above

Needs, setting standards and maintaining discipline, and appointing sub-leaders according to Adair’s approach, called as:

• Work functions

• Task functions

• Individual functions

• Team functions

The Ohio State Leadership Studies revealed _____________ and initiating structure as two major dimensions of leadership behaviour:

• Control

• Communication

• Collaboration

• Consideration

_________ used the terms “employee-centred” and “production-centred” to describe leader behaviour:

• Blake and McCanse

• Fiedler

• McGregor

• Likert

Identify the four main styles of leadership displayed by the manager which identified in Tannenbaum and Schmidt’s continuum of possible leadership behaviour

• Tells, help, joins and leads

• Commands, sells, consults and resists

• Tells, sells, consults and joins

• Commands, help, joins and leads

Contingency theories of leadership based upon:

• That there is no single style of leadership appropriate to all situations

• That there is a single style of leadership appropriate to all managers

• That there is a single style of leadership appropriate to all situations

• None of the above

Leaders with a low LPC score gain satisfaction from _______________ according to Fiedler’s LPC scale:

• Developing team relationships

• Achieving objectives

• Both of these

• None of the above