Leadership Quiz Paper

Chapter 1--Who Is a Leader and What Skills Do Leaders Need?
Student: ___________________________________________________________________________
1. Leadership is the influencing process of leaders and followers to achieve organizational objectives through change.
True False 2. If you are a manager, then you are an effective leader.
True False 3. If a person is not interested and not willing to be in charge, he or she is still well-suited to be a leader.
True False 4. Knowing how to lead and developing leadership skills will make you a better leader and a better follower.
True False 5. The qualities needed for effective leadership are the same as those needed to be an effective follower.
True False 6. Leadership
Leadership is the process of a leader communicating ideas, gaining acceptance of them, and motivating followers to support and implement the ideas through change.
FALSE

7. Effective leaders influence followers to think not only of their own interests but also of the interest of the organization through a shared vision.
TRUE

8. Taking advantage of followers for personal gain is a part of leadership.
FALSE

9. Research indicates that leadership success is associated with being a hard-nosed, tough manager.
FALSE

10. Leaders are born, not made.
TRUE

11. Of the three managerial leadership skills that all leaders need to be successful and middle-level managers in an organization need to have a balanced need for all three skills.
TRUE

12. Of the three managerial leadership skills that all leaders need to be successful and top-level managers in an organization need to have a greater need for interpersonal and decision-making skills than technical skills.
TRUE

13. A role is a set of expectations of how a person will behave to perform a job.
TRUE

14. The interpersonal leadership roles include figurehead, leader, and monitor.
FALSE

15. Figurehead is an interpersonal role.
Organizational performance, in the long run, depends on maintaining the status quo regardless of what changes occur in the external environment.
FALSE

24. Individual and group performance are based on organizational performance.
FALSE

25. A leadership theory is a shared mindset that represents a fundamental way of thinking about, perceiving, studying, researching, and understanding leadership.
FALSE

26. Early leadership theories were based on the assumption that leaders are made, not born.
FALSE

27. There is a universal list of traits that all successful leaders possess.
FALSE

28. By the 1950s, most of the leadership research had changed its paradigm, going from trait theory to focusing on what the leader actually did on the job.
TRUE

29. Behavioral leadership theories attempt to explain the appropriate leadership style based on the leader, followers, and situation.
FALSE

30. Mintzberg's ten managerial roles are an example of contingency leadership theory.
FALSE

31. Contingency leadership theories attempt to combine the trait and behavioral theories to explain successful, influencing leader-follower relationships.
FALSE

32. The contingency theory paradigm emphasizes the importance of situational factors.