Exam 1: Who Is a Leader?

Leadership is the process of a leader communicating ideas, gaining acceptance of them, and motivating followers to support and implement the ideas through change.

If you are a manager, then you are an effective leader.

Leaders perform the ____ role when they represent the organization or department in legal, social, ceremonial, and symbolic activities.

Briefly describe the five key elements of leadership.

Contingency leadership theories attempt to combine the trait and behavioral theories to explain successful, influencing leaderfollower relationships.

Explain the interrelationships among the levels of leadership analysis.

Mintzberg's ten managerial roles is an example of:

Leadership theory classifications include all of the following EXCEPT:

Levels of analysis constitute:

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

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.

Behavioral leadership theories attempt to explain:

Early leadership studies were based on the assumption that leaders are:

A researcher is conducting a study of charismatic leaders. The researcher is attempting to determine the qualities that make a leader charismatic, as compared to those leaders who are not charismatic. This workshop best illustrates which leadership theory paradigm?

List the ten managerial roles based on their three categories.

List and define the leadership theory paradigms.

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

Why is leadership important?

Recall a present or past job. Were you both a leader and a follower? Explain.

If a person is not interested and not willing to be in charge, he or she is still well-suited to be a leader.