Chapter2-Leadership

Question 1

What is it called when a person has personality traits or characteristics that are not taught or learned, and must be developed by the individual to lead?

Answer 1

Leadership

Question 2

What are the four functions of management?

Answer 2

Planning, organizing, directing, and controlling

Question 3

What is supervisory ability?

Answer 3

The ability to apply planning, organizing, directing, and controlling to accomplish the objective is through efforts of others

Question 4

What is decisiveness?

Answer 4

Solving problems and making informed decisions

Question 5

What is intelligence?

Answer 5

Using common sense, logic, and reason in making decisions

Question 6

What is Demonstrating self-confidence and self-esteem when making decisions

Answer 6

Self assurance

Question 7

Applying consistently a set of morals or values to the decision-making process and doing the right thing

Answer 7

Integrity

Question 8

Knowing the leader is secured in the position and does not feel threatened by subordinates, peers, or the political environment

Answer 8

Personal security

Question 9

Determining what must be accomplish first and maintaining focus on the outcome

Answer 9

Sense of priority

Question 10

Having a dream or concept of the way things can or should be

Answer 10

Vision

Question 11

Accomplish seemingly insurmountable tasks

Answer 11

Industriousness

Question 12

Sharing authority and responsibility with other members of the organization

Answer 12

Empowerment

Question 13

What is it called when you apply procedures, policies, rewards, and discipline evenly and fairly overtime

Answer 13

Consistency

Question 14

What leadership style is used when the leader includes employees in decisions and allows them to work with the least amount of supervision necessary

Answer 14

Democratic

Question 15

What are the best situations to use the Democratic leadership style?

Answer 15

Hazmat or technical rescue situations where knowledge and skills are more important than rank

Question 16

What does laissez fair mean in French?

Answer 16

Allowed to do

Question 17

What leadership style inspires follower loyalty and creates an enthusiastic vision that others want to attain?

Answer 17

Charismatic

Question 18

What leadership style bases theory on strong organizational culture that holds common values and beliefs?

Answer 18

Symbolic

Question 19

What is the biggest problem with symbolic leadership?

Answer 19

Employees fail to question the leadership decisions or to speak openly when management makes errors

Question 20

What leadership style was created to connect organizational results with the happiness of the workers

Answer 20

Total quality management

Question 21

What are the four styles that Leaders can use within the path to goal theory?

Answer 21

Directive, supportive, participative, and achievement oriented

Question 22

What leadership style includes multiple people within the organization who believe the same things such as integrity, excellence, loyalty, etc,

Answer 22

Principle centered leadership

Question 23

What two elements are maturity based on?

Answer 23

Willingness and ability

Question 24

Within the situational leadership model, what are the four approaches that can be taken to get the job done?

Answer 24

Telling, selling, participating, and delegating

Question 25

What leadership model is thought to be the model of the future and his value-based that places service at the core for current social change?

Answer 25

Social change model

Question 26

What model involves followers in the process of accomplishing a goal within the limits of the system?

Answer 26

Alpha leadership model

Question 27

What are the four styles of leadership that make up the path the goal theory?

Answer 27

Supportive, achievement oriented, directive, and participative

Question 28

Under the participative approach, the leader should?

Answer 28

Ask for suggestions from the subordinates

Question 29

Under the supportive approach the leader does what?

Answer 29

Shows concerns for the subordinates

Question 30

What are the four levels of readiness in the situational leadership model?

Answer 30

Selling, telling, participating, delegating

Question 31

Out of the four levels of readiness which uses the autocratic approach?

Answer 31

Telling

Question 32

Out of the four levels of readiness which is a refined autocratic approach that involves convincing members that the task is appropriate and justified?

Answer 32

Selling

Question 33

Out of the four levels of readiness which relies on input from members in determining how the test should be accomplished?

Answer 33

Participating

Question 34

Out of the four levels of readiness which uses limits set by the leader and allows members to determine how the task will be accomplished?

Answer 34

Delegating

Question 35

Which model is a value-based model of leadership that places service at the core for social change?

Answer 35

The social change model

Question 36

What is the position of control, authority, or influence over others?

Answer 36

Power

Question 37

Leaders must be consistent with what three things?

Answer 37

Decisions, actions, and relationships

Question 38

What are the eight steps to properly creating command presence?

Answer 38

Know the situation, know the resources needed, know the strategy and tactics, listen to all points of view, make the decision, take responsibility for the decision, implement the decision, and evaluate the decision