Principles Of Management Quiz 1

Persons who are able to influence others and who possess managerial authority are termed ________.

• organizers

• visionaries

• leaders

• managers

Leadership is ________.

• the process of influencing a group toward the achievement of goals

• the function of influencing a group towards the achievement of goals

• directing a group towards the achievement of goals

• a group that achieves goals

Leadership ________.

• is based on management direction

• has only been studied since the early twentieth century

• has a requirement of at least five members to be led

• cannot be developed, according to research

Ibn Khaldun's most famous book, in which he included a perspective on leadership, is called the ________.

• Assiyash wal Hukm (or "Politics and Governing")

• Tareekh (or "History")

• Muqaddimah (or "Introduction")

• Assabiyat AlArab (or "The Group bond among Arabs")

Perfecting details, according to Ibn Khaldun, refer to ________.

• the personal qualities of the leader

• the details of the leader's message

• the environmental factors that shape a leader's behavior

• the attributes of the leader's tribe or family

Ibn Khaldun describes "asabiya" as ________.

• the agreements between tribes

• the leader's ability to force compliance

• the follower's attachment to the leader

• the group feeling or group bond

One element of the prophetic-caliphal model of leadership is ________.

• the amount of resources that a leader has

• the presence of a group bond

• the role of asabiya

• individualism

Personalism, in the prophetic-caliphal model of leadership, refers to ________.

• a person making personal connections with his/her followers

• a person easily following a potential leader

• a person being easily insulted by others

• a person's insistence on his personal opinion

According to the prophetic-caliphal model of leadership, a vacuum of leadership ________.

• is never really filled

• occurs when a leader dies

• results from a leader who does not have the necessary resources

• is filled by the expectation of the "great man"

According to the prophetic-caliphal model of leadership, the combination of personalism and individualism leads to ________.

• lack of institutional development

• an expectation that the leader will succeed

• weak attachment to the leader

• an expectation that the leader will fail