Quiz 1: The Importance of Leadership: Setting the Stage

The weakest link in business and industry effectiveness is ______. A) Technology B) Tools and equipment C) Physical plant and facilities D) Employee skills E) Leadership

Leadership means ______. A) Adherence to performance standards B) Influencing the behaviors of others through ideas and deeds C) Evaluating a course of action D) Seeking direction from others E) Writing and speaking effectively

Ralph M. Stogdill shows the importance of social circumstance in determining leadership by contrasting qualities admired in _______ and _______ cultures. A) Russian; American B) English; French C) German; Japanese D) Indian; Chinese E) Egyptian; Greek

Satisfactions of leaders include both _______ and ______. A) Feelings of power; personal freedom B) High income; good health C) Opportunity for advancement; love and admiration of friends D) A chance to help others; feeling in on things E) Opportunity to control resources; aesthetic experience

Frustrations of leaders include both _______ and ______. A) Conflicting goals; people problems B) Insufficient authority; too much power C) Uncompensated work time; customer interference D) Loneliness; vendor demands E) Organizational politics; personal needs

The successful leader cares about _______ and ______. A) The people; the money B) The money; the time C) The time; the work D) The work; the people E) None of these

Caring leadership means _______ and ______. A) Caring about the task to be done; caring about people B) Caring about self-advancement; caring about the task to be done C) Caring about the welfare of others; caring about self-advancement D) Caring about the task to be done; caring about personal well-being E) None of these

Either by ______, leaders show the way and influence the behavior of others. A) Ideas or deeds B) Humor or study C) Fear or force D) Books or speeches

Both nature and _______ have a role in the leadership equation. A) Nurture B) Agriculture C) Water D) Trees

The Greek warrior Achilles led by ______. A) Ideas B) Deeds C) Guile D) Force

The poem _______ reminds us that leadership must come from the heart. A) "The Raven" B) "Threads" C) "Needles" D) "The Road Not Taken"

King Arthur of Camelot is to Achilles of Greece as: A) Southern Europe is to Northern Europe B) Old is to new C) Ideas are to deeds D) Lost is to found E) Large is to small

Political leadership is to Caesar and Elizabeth as: A) Religious leadership is to Alexander and Joan of Arc B) Economic leadership is to John Stuart Mill and Susan B. Anthony C) Military leadership is to Martin Luther King and Adam Smith D) None of these E) All of these

Leaders as teachers include: A) Rumi and Yoritomo B) Aquinas and Watt C) Confucius and Plato D) Hippocrates and Saladin E) None of these

The 66th Edition of Who's Who in America contains entries for: A) more than 90,000 people B) 78,000 people C) 47,500 people D) 22,000 people E) None of these

Rosa Parks provided leadership in the area of: A) Economic theory B) Art appreciation C) Science and technology D) Civil rights E) Religious thought

Thomas Carlyle taught a conception of leadership based upon: A) The great man theory B) The melting pot theory C) Social interaction theory D) Acquired competency theory E) None of these

Ralph M. Stogdill identifies individual traits that correlate positively with leadership. These include: A) Intelligence, hand strength, size, birth order B) Height, gender, age, experience C) Education, ability, aggressiveness, cunning D) Responsibility, vigor, venturesomeness, self-confidence E) Training, motivation, need-deficiency, skill

The influence of environmental factors and individual qualities in determining leadership effectiveness is shown in studies by: A) Biologist Richard Borowsky B) Economist Paul Samuelson C) Psychologist B.F. Skinner D) Anthropologist Margaret Mead E) None of these

Most cited places where American leaders say they learn to lead are: A) Business, industry, government B) Television, films, print-media C) Experience, examples, education D) Mistakes and failures E) None of these

The qualities American workers want most in a leader are: A) Integrity, job knowledge, people-building skills B) Time, attention, consideration C) Experience, skill, commitment D) Respect, understanding, encouragement E) Technical expertise, task-orientation, support

The central message of Theodore Roosevelt's passage on caring leadership is: A) The one who cares too much will surely fail B) Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all C) Victory belongs to the strongest D) Victory and defeat are the opposite sides of the same coin E) None of these

Jan Carlzon, former CEO of Scandinavian Airlines, states that the path to success begins in the: A) Business plan B) Heart C) Product development D) Financial record E) None of these

The central message of the poem "Threads" is that the leader must: A) Learn to sew the threads of a business together B) Care about the well being of others C) Thread personal life into work life for greatest success D) As you sew, so you reap E) None of these

Karl Marx observed: A) The Russians and Chinese will dominate the world B) An intelligent individual has a well-developed sense of humor C) The Communists doctrine is doomed to failure D) Capitalist ideals constitute proven principles for social well-being E) The manner in which a society does its work shapes most things a society believes and does

Distilled to its essence, leadership is: A) Planning, organizing, and controlling the work of the organization B) Organizing the organization to fulfill its potential C) Planning the future and tracking progress D) Establishing direction, aligning people and resources, and energizing people to achieve success

The three basic types of leaders are: A) Heroes, rulers, and teachers B) Democrats, Republicans, and Independents C) Progressives, traditionalists, and moderates

Ruler-type leaders include: A) Buddha, Marx, and Aristotle B) Newton, Michelangelo, and Edison C) Elizabeth I, Napoleon, and Washington

Leadership is present: A) In all areas of society and at all levels of responsibility B) Only in upper management of Fortune 500 companies C) In the corporate world and higher levels of government only D) Nowhere. It is an outdated concept as we approach the next millennium

The primary purpose of management is to ______; The primary function of leadership is to ______. A) make policy; implement policy B) establish rules; enforce rules C) provide order and consistency; produce change and movement D) None of these

John W. Gardner identifies the _______ in which his own leadership abilities emerged to be his experience as a(n) ______. A) vortex; professor B) box; athlete C) crucible; marine D) School; executive

Management involves ______, _______, _______, _______, first identified by _______. A) ideas; actions; organization; results; John Kotter B) thoughts; feelings; inputs; outputs; John Gardner C) planning; organizing; directing; controlling; Henri Fayol D) data gathering; making decisions; follow through; Ralph Stogdill

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