MGMT 410 - Final Review

Defining leadership as a process implies which of the following?

• Leadership is restricted to certain people

• Leadership only takes place in formal settings

• Leadership is an inborn trait or characteristic

• Leadership is a transactional event between people

Which of the following statements misrepresents the relationship between leadership and management?

• Leadership tends to be multidirectional, whereas management tends to be unidirectional

• Managers shape ideas, whereas leaders are reactive in solving problems

• Leaders are emotionally involved, whereas managers have low emotional involvement

• Leadership produces Change & Movement; Management produces Order & Consistency

Power is necessary for leadership, but not everyone who has power will use it to lead.

An essential ingredient to leadership is:

• Rizz

• Influence

• Expertise

• Problem-Solving

We talked about multiple influencing strategies in this class. One of the common threads among these strategies is that empathy and creating positive energy is important.

This idea that your moods and emotions can affect the moods and emotions of everyone else is captured by the concept known as:

• Pleasantness

• Emotional Labor

• Emotional Contagion

• Being 'Lit'

Employee/subordinate participation is crucial in leading. Which of the following forms of leadership focuses on soliciting input from subordinates prior to decision-making

• Laissez-Faire Leadership

• Delegative Leadership

• Autocratic Leadership

• Democratic Leadership

Which of the following traditional theories of leadership focuses on attempting to identify personal characteristics of an effective leader?

• Charismatic Leadership

• Behavioral Approach to Leadership

• Trait Approach to Leadership

• Contingency Theory to Leadership

In terms of the Trait Approach to Leadership, which of the following is NOT considered to be a characteristic of an effective leader?

• Intelligence & Self-Confidence

• Initiating Structure & Consideration

• Integrity & Sociability

• Emotional Intelligence

Seth is the leader of a small group of human resources professionals. Two of the staff members, Kurt and Jake, disagree about the leadership traits that Seth displays in their work situation.

This disagreement describes which of the main criticisms of the trait approach?

• lack of leadership emergence

• usefulness in training and development

• high subjectivity and implicit bias

• century of research

If the trait approach is about who leaders are and what they look like, then the _______ approach is about what leaders can potentially accomplish.

(Select the best answer)

• Skills

• Behavior

• Outcomes

• Situations

In terms of the Skills Approach, which of the following is NOT a core category of leader skills?

• Technical Skills

• Conceptual Skills

• Harmonizing Skills

• Human Skills