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Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
2) Executive presence is, in general, concerned with a person's ability to radiate confidence,
poise, and authority.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
3) Leader support is a job-centered dimension of behavior and is similar to the initiating structure
dimension of the various Ohio State questionnaires.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
4) The LBDQ-XII assesses behaviors such as being able to tolerate uncertainty and acting as a
representative for a group.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
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6) According to the Leadership Grid, authoritarian leaders are most likely to have a positive
impact on their subordinates' job performance, organizational commitment, and intentions to
stay.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
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Bloom's: Remember
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
8) According to the Leadership Grid, 1,1 leaders are the most effective in workplaces.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
9) The context and style of leaders' behavior are also factors that affect their ability to build
teams and get results through others.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
10) Intrapersonal skills are leadership competencies and behaviors having to do with adapting to
stress, goal orientation, and adhering to rules.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
11) According to Boris Groysberg's division of skills into buckets, leadership and management
skills are less portable than produce skills.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
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12) The Leadership Pipeline provides a useful framework for thinking about how leadership
competencies change as people are promoted through organizations.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-02 Clarify the meaning of the leadership pipeline.
Bloom's: Remember
13) According to the Leadership Pipeline, people who skip organizational levels often turn out to
be effective leaders.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-02 Clarify the meaning of the leadership pipeline.
Bloom's: Remember
14) Organizations usually offer on-boarding programs to help internal candidates move into top
managerial roles, which help them figure out how to operate at this leadership level.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-02 Clarify the meaning of the leadership pipeline.
Bloom's: Remember
15) The three components of community leadership include mobilization, framing, and building
social capital.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-03 Illustrate community leadership behaviors.
Bloom's: Remember
16) Framing is the leadership competency of developing relationships that allow people to work
together in the community across their differences.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-03 Illustrate community leadership behaviors.
Bloom's: Remember
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17) A study of 750 firms by Watson-Wyatt, a human resource consulting firm, reported that
companies that used 360-degree feedback systems had a 10.6 percent increase in shareholder
value.
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-04 Generalize how to assess leadership behaviors using multirater
feedback instruments.
Bloom's: Remember
18) Walker and Smither reported that managers who shared their 360-degree feedback results
with their followers and worked on an action plan to improve their ratings had a dramatic
improvement in others' ratings over a five-year period.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-04 Generalize how to assess leadership behaviors using multirater
feedback instruments.
Bloom's: Remember
19) According to a comprehensive study by Mount, Sytsma, Hazucha, and Holt, white peers and
subordinates generally gave about the same level of ratings for both black and white peers and
bosses.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-04 Generalize how to assess leadership behaviors using multirater
feedback instruments.
Bloom's: Remember
20) Research on 360-degree feedback shows that those individuals who work for superiors
receiving above-average ratings from others were more likely to receive above-average ratings
themselves.
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-04 Generalize how to assess leadership behaviors using multirater
feedback instruments.
Bloom's: Remember
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21) Which of the following terms refers to how friendly and supportive a leader is toward
subordinates?
A) goal emphasis
B) consideration
C) initiating structure
D) work facilitation
Answer: B
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
22) Which of the following terms refers to how much a leader emphasizes meeting work goals
and accomplishing tasks?
A) consideration
B) initiating structure
C) interaction facilitation
D) mobilization
Answer: B
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
23) The ________ asked leaders to indicate the extent to which they believed different
consideration and initiating behaviors were important to leadership success.
A) Leadership Opinion Questionnaire (LOQ)
B) Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire (SBDQ)
C) Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ)
D) Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ)
Answer: A
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
24) Which of the following leadership questionnaires measured the extent to which leaders in
industrial settings exhibited consideration and initiating structure behaviors?
A) the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ)
B) the Leadership Opinion Questionnaire (LOQ)
C) the LBDQ (Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire)-XII
D) the Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire (SBDQ)
Answer: D
Difficulty: 1 Easy
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Bloom's: Remember
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25) Goal emphasis and work facilitation are ________ dimensions of leadership behavior.
A) job-centered
B) interpersonal
C) employee-centered
D) intrapersonal
Answer: A
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
26) Behaviors that are concerned with motivating subordinates to accomplish the task at hand are
called ________ behaviors.
A) interaction facilitation
B) work facilitation
C) goal emphasis
D) leader support
Answer: C
Difficulty: 1 Easy
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Bloom's: Remember
Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Understand
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28) Researchers at the University of Michigan concluded that there are four categories of
leadership behaviors related to effective group performance. Identify a true statement about one
of the four categories, interaction facilitation.
A) It is a job-centered dimension of behavior.
B) It is similar to initiating structure, an Ohio State dimension.
C) It includes those behaviors where leaders act to smooth over and minimize conflicts among
followers.
D) It includes those behaviors that are primarily concerned with motivating subordinates to
accomplish the task at hand.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Understand
29) The Leadership Grid profiles leader behavior on two dimensions, which are
A) communication skills and cognitive skills.
B) concern for people and concern for production.
C) leader support and interaction facilitation.
D) the introversion–extroversion dimension and the thinking–perceiving dimension.
Answer: B
Difficulty: 1 Easy
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Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
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Bloom's: Understand
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31) Identify a true statement about leadership skills according to Hogan and Warrenfelz's four
major categories of skills and behaviors found in virtually every organizational competency
model.
A) They are skills and behaviors concerned with building teams and getting results through
others.
B) They are difficult to develop when compared to the skills and behaviors associated with
interpersonal skills.
C) They are the primary focus of MBA programs and are among the easiest to learn of the four
categories.
D) They are skills and behaviors that involve direct interaction, such as communicating and
building relationships with others.
Answer: A
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Understand
32) According to Hogan and Warrenfelz, competencies concerned with analyzing issues, making
decisions, and strategic thinking fall into the ________ category.
A) intrapersonal skills
B) leadership skills
C) interpersonal skills
D) business skills
Answer: D
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-01 List the various studies of leadership behavior.
Bloom's: Remember
33) Which of the following concepts was most likely promoted by Boris Groysberg?
A) The difference between consideration and initiating structure.
B) The profiling of leader behavior on two dimensions, concern for people and concern for
production.
C) The categorization of the skills and behaviors found in competency models into four
categories.
D) The difference between portable and nonportable skills.
Answer: D
Difficulty: 1 Easy
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Bloom's: Remember
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34) Community leaders are most likely to
A) have significant position power.
B) go through formal selection processes.
C) have fewer resources than most other leaders.
D) use coercive power to discipline followers.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 07-03 Illustrate community leadership behaviors.
Bloom's: Understand
35) The leadership competency of helping a group or community recognize and define its
opportunities and issues in ways that result in effective action is known as
A) framing.
B) building social capital.
C) mobilizing followers.
D) facilitating interaction.
Answer: A
Difficulty: 1 Easy
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Bloom's: Remember
Answer: B
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 07-03 Illustrate community leadership behaviors.
Bloom's: Understand
Answer: D
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-03 Illustrate community leadership behaviors.
Bloom's: Remember
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38) In the ________, 10–15 superiors, peers, and direct reports are asked to share a target
individual's strengths and areas of improvement as a leader in phone or face-to-face interviews.
A) leadership virtues questionnaire
B) competency-based 360-degree questionnaires
C) verbal 360-degree technique
D) leadership versatility approach
Answer: C
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-04 Generalize how to assess leadership behaviors using multirater
feedback instruments.
Bloom's: Remember
39) In ________, superiors, peers, and direct reports provide ratings on the extent to which target
individuals demonstrate too much, just the right amount, or too little strategic, operations,
enabling, or forcing leadership behavior for a particular position.
A) the leadership virtues questionnaire
B) a leadership versatility approach
C) competency-based 360-degree questionnaires
D) the verbal 360-degree technique
Answer: B
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Learning Objective: 07-04 Generalize how to assess leadership behaviors using multirater
feedback instruments.
Bloom's: Remember
40) Which of the following statements about 360-degree feedback is most likely true?
A) Most firms use 360-degree feedback as a development tool rather than for performance
appraisal purposes.
B) Few global firms use 360-degree feedback because of its mixed development results.
C) 360-degree feedback should be built around a competency model.
D) Research shows that 360-degree feedback ratings change significantly over time.
Answer: C
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Learning Objective: 07-04 Generalize how to assess leadership behaviors using multirater
feedback instruments.
Bloom's: Understand
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41) In the context of the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ), explain the two
independent dimensions of behavior called consideration and initiating structure that are used to
describe leaders when analyzing questionnaires.
42) Compare and contrast the leader behavior research conducted by the Ohio State University
and the University of Michigan.
43) Describe the Leadership Grid and explain why it can be considered an extension of the Ohio
State and University of Michigan studies.
44) How do leadership behaviors and leadership skills differ? Provide examples to illustrate your
response.
45) What are competency models? How do organizations benefit from developing these models?
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47) What is community leadership? How does community leadership differ from leadership in
other organizations, such as private firms or the military?
49) What role does societal or organizational culture play in the accuracy and utility of the 360-
degree feedback process? Provide examples to illustrate your response.
50) What are the important gender issues related to 360-degree feedback?
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