Ashford MGT380 Week 1 Quiz Latest 2020 September

MGT380 Leadership for Organizations

Week 1 Quiz   

Question 1Mintzberg (1973, 2009) identified 10 specific managerial roles, categorizing them into three groups. Which of the following is NOT one of the three categories?

  Decisional

  Informational

  Interpersonal

  Transactional

Question 2Which of the following statements about leadership is NOT true?

  Leadership is an art, so people cannot be trained to be leaders.

  Leadership contributes more to employee engagement than any other single variable.

  Leadership occurs across cultures, across industries, and within all levels of the organization.

  Leadership is both an art and a science.

Question 3One study of 160 male college students found that emergent leaders exhibited all of the following personality characteristics EXCEPT _____.

  self-efficacy

  intelligence

  conscientiousness

  dominance

Question 4Jolie has an engineering degree from a top-tier university. Which of the following best describes Jolie’s education and development needs?

  She can feel confident that she understands the technology she needs to continue to be successful.

 

  She will need to constantly learn new skills in order to be effective.

  She has the skills she needs to remain successful throughout her career.

  Her knowledge will remain stable now that she has an engineering degree.

Question 5Tom is in charge of a Habitat for Humanity build site where volunteers arrive daily, excited to volunteer,

but with very little knowledge of how to do the work or what needs to be completed. Based on the Situational Leadership Model II®, which leader style would be best for Tom to use?

  Delegating

  Coaching

  Supporting

  Directing

Question 6Marcie is in leader training, and she has been asked to diagnose her organizational situation based on Fiedler’s leadership-situation theory. Which of the following characteristics is she NOT likely to use?

  Marcie does not have access to many rewards, and her boss never supports her when she tries to terminate an employee.

  Marcie’s workgroup’s tasks are typically structured, straightforward, and easily understood.

  Marcie’s employees eat lunch as a group at a picnic table immediately outside of their work facility.

  Marcie’s followers do not have a lot of respect for her and often doubt whether she has the best ideas.

Question 7The marketing team for Phillips Real Estate is characterized by creativity and camaraderie. The employees feel close to each other, and the manager feels like “just another team member” instead of the person in charge. The marketing team has positive:

  Team-Member Exchanges.

  Leader-Member Exchanges.

  achievement-oriented leadership.

  energy.

Question 8Sasha generally assumes that her peers and subordinates are unmotivated to work, and she believes that people need to be controlled, directed, coerced, and micromanaged. Sasha likely has what type of attitude toward her subordinates?

  Machiavellian

  Negative affectivity

  Theory Y

 

  Theory X

Question 9The most widely used assessment worldwide is the:

  Narcissism Personality Indicator (NPI).

  Assessment of EQ.

  Big Five Personality Assessment.

  Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

Question 10Jenny is in charge of a group of employees who work in a kitchen to prepare meals for elderly individuals. The work is very simple and repetitive, yet the employees consistently report that they love their job, they enjoy working for Jenny, and they appreciate the extra perks and rewards that Jenny is able to distribute. Based on Fiedler’s leadership-situation theory, how is the situation described, and what leadership style would be best?

  Favorable situation; task-oriented leader

  Unfavorable situation; people-oriented leader

  Unfavorable situation; task-oriented leader

  Favorable situation; people-oriented leader