Johanna is excellent at applying tax law and other accounting principles in her job as a
manager in her accounting firm. She has equally high skills in working with the
employees she supervises but does not have as much skill in helping the firm shape the
vision for growth. Applying Katz’s skills model, at what level of management is
Johanna?
a. Top management
b. Middle management
c. Supervisory management
d. CEO management
Having a benchmark for what to look for if we want to be leaders is about
a. Trying to develop specifically the five major traits in the text
b. Giving a boss a specific set of traits to look for in potential new hires
c. Helping individuals see their own traits and decide if these are leadership traits
d. Specifically determining traits for a particular job promotion
Foresight and conceptualization are two characteristics of the first model of servant
leadership.
a. True
b. False
I have done significant reflection about myself, my leadership, and my life experiences,
which has helped me become the leader that I am. I am using which definition of
authentic leadership?
a. Intrapersonal
b. Interpersonal
c. Developmental
d. Fundamental
Team leaders need to construct a mental model to
a. Identify problems and solutions within the team.
b. Take simple problems and find hidden complexities.
c. Improve their communication skills.
d. Give team members the role of problem solving.
Deontological theory focuses primarily on the consequences (ends or purposes) of an
individual’s actions.
a. True
b. False
When trying to identify who leaders are, I am using _______ approach.
a. Skills
b. Trait
c. Behavioral
d. Social judgment
Social judgment is an individual attribute in the skills model.
a. True
b. False
The dyadic relationships in LMX occur between
a. The leader and other leaders
b. The leader and the in-group followers
c. The leader and each follower
d. The followers and each other follower
Allowing a group of employees to run the daily operations of the organization while the
supervisor remains out of the picture unless he is needed to solve problems, listen to
concerns, give praise, and provide feedback is best explained with
a. Directing style
b. Delegating approach
c. Supporting approach
d. Coaching approach
The behavioral approach is not describing what leaders do but who leaders are.
a. True
b. False