Leadership and Management Quiz

According to the text, what is the primary focus of a manager?

• Promoting changes and adaptation

• Focused on the future

• Focused on the present

• Creating visions of the future

What is leadership primarily concerned with?

• Stability and efficiency

• Detailed plans

• Influencing an organized group toward accomplishing its goals

• Day to day operations

Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a myth about leadership?

• Good leadership is common sense

• Leaders are born not made

• Leadership is modest

• Effective leadership has a simple recipe

What does the LFS Interaction framework consider when assessing leadership?

• Leader's personal history, interests, trait, and motivation

• The environmental factor only

• The task only

• The followers' expectations only

What does effective leadership require according to the text?

• A simple recipe for all situations

• The same behavior in every situation

• Assessing the context of the LFS framework

• Ignoring the characteristics of the followers

What are the three deference processes enhanced in leadership development according to the Action, Observation, and Reflection Model (AOR Model)?

• Planning, execution, and evaluation

• Action, observation, and reflection

• Perception, reaction, and implementation

• Analysis, decision-making, and learning

What is a perceptual set?

• A fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

• A tendency to perceive one thing and not another influenced by various factors

• A type of learning that confronts fundamental ideas or actions

• A method of leader development through coaching

What is the fundamental attribution error?

• The tendency to underestimate the dispositional causes of behavior and overestimate the environmental causes when others fail

• The tendency to overestimate the dispositional causes of behavior and underestimate the environmental causes when others fail

• The tendency to make internal attributions for one's failures and external attributions for one's successes

• The tendency to make external attributions for one's failures and internal attributions for one's successes

What is double loop learning?

• Learning that involves receiving feedback from the environment

• Learning that involves confronting one's own views and inviting others to do the same

• Learning that is based on observing and reflecting on actions

• Learning that is focused on developing leadership through mentoring

Which of the following is NOT listed as a common method of leader development?

• Action learning

• Development planning

• Coaching

• Performance appraisal