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Leadership And Motivation
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Subject
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soft-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Vision - Communication - Trust - Self-Management
2. Discipline and training of oneself - usually for improvement.
Self-Disciplined
Emotional/Social Intelligence
Keys to succesfull communication
Democratic Leader
3. A spiritual power or personal quality that gives an individual influence or authority over large numbers of people
Negotiation skills
Humility
Initiative
Charisma
4. Executives responsible for the direction and success of the entire business
Charisma
Diversity
Top Management
Motivation
5. Managers are less directive and involve employees in the decision-making
Strategic
Mid-Management
Top Management
Authoritative
6. 1. Be consistent 2. Be passionate 3. Provide feedback 4. Make communication two-way 5. Issue calls in action 6. Choose media wisely
Keys to succesfull communication
Leadership Styles
Empathy
Supervisors
7. The ability to motivate individuals and groups to accomplish important goals
Objectivity
Motivating Others
Pacesetting
Leadership
8. A manager who gives little or no direction to workers.
Open Leader
Organizing
Characteristics of Leaders
Authoritative
9. The ability to control or redirect disruptive impulses and moods - suspend judgment - and think before acting
Leader
Levels in the Affective Domain
Staffing
Self-regulation
10. One who gives little or no direction to employees
Top Management
Affiliative
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Tyrant
11. The ability to pursue goals with energy and persistence - for reasons that go beyond money or status
Self-Disciplined
Autocratic Leader
Team
Motivation
12. 1. Coercive 2. Authoritative 3. Affiliative 4. Democratic 5. Pacesetting 6. Coaching
Coercive
Open Leader
Organizing
Leadership Styles
13. The process of accomplishing the goals of an organization through the effective use of people and other resources
Implementing
Networking
Top Management
Management
14. The combination of tactical and strategic management
Mixed
Characteristics of Leaders
Strategic
Open Leader
15. This style mobilizes people toward a vision. Specifically - it provides an overarching goal - but gives others the freedom to choose their own way of reaching it. This approach is most effective when a business is at sea and needs direction - or duri
Staffing
Coercive
Authoritative
Initiative
16. Judgment based on observable experience and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices.
Leader
Objectivity
Controlling
Decisive
17. This style focuses on personal development. Coaching leaders help people identify their strengths and weaknesses - and tie them to their career aspirations. While this style is highly successful with people who want to change or improve professionall
Self-regulation
Coaching
Leader
Self-awareness
18. To speak and write persuasively
Planning
Communication skills
Competent
Open Leader
19. The arrangement of resources in order to meet goals
Supervisors
Organizing
Democratic Leader
Tactical
20. Obtaining - training - and compensating employees
Initiative
Staffing
Interpersonal skills
Skills of successful leaders
21. Creating a group of acquaintances and associates and keeping it active through regular communication for mutual benefits.
Networking
Social Skill
Team
Charisma
22. A group of people working harmoniously together to effectively achieve a common goal
Team
Democratic Leader
Networking
Affiliative
23. The ability to understand people's emotional makeup
Levels in the Affective Domain
Networking
Characteristics of Leaders
Empathy
24. A system of moral principles
Ethics
Team
Decisive
Leader
25. Providing extrensic awards may...
Controlling
Objectivity
Negotiation skills
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
26. An introductory act or step; leading action
Initiative
Diversity
Keys to succesfull communication
Leadership
27. This 'people-first' style engenders the creation of emotional bonds and team harmony. It is best used when team coherence is important or in times of low employee morale. But this approach's focus on praise may permit poor performance among employees
Pacesetting
Tyrant
Management
Affiliative
28. The way a manager treats and involves employees
Staffing
Strategic
Management Style
Social Skill
29. The ability to recognize and understand your moods - emotions - and drives as well as their effect on others
Levels in the Affective Domain
Self-awareness
Organizing
Strategic
30. To align people who may not report to you toward a goal - 'Get them excited!'
Supervisors
Motivational skills
Strategic
Controlling
31. Specialists in a specific area of the business
Mid-Management
Strategic
Motivation
Coaching
32. Internal and external factors that simulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested in and committed to a job - role - subject - and to exert persistent effort in attaining a goal.
Negotiation skills
Motivational skills
Motivation
Characteristics of Leaders
33. This style expects excellence and self-direction. It works best for highly skilled and motivated people who work well on their own. Other people - however - may feel overwhelmed by a pacesetting leader's demands for excellence. Their self-esteem - tr
Pacesetting
Conflict-resolution skills
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
Top Management
34. A leader without ethics
Integrity
Top Management
Management
Tyrant
35. External Factors: Benefits - working conditions - salary - etc. Internal Factors: Achievement - feedback - responsibility
Social Skill
Leader
Motivating Others
Negotiation skills
36. To listen and hear what people are saying and react in constructive ways (active listening).
Interpersonal skills
Objectivity
Decisive
Pacesetting
37. First level of management; responsible for the work of a group of employees
Mid-Management
Organizing
Humility
Supervisors
38. To bring different groups together in order to reach mutually agreeable goals
Interpersonal skills
Communication skills
Negotiation skills
Coercive
39. Questions to ask in order to understand the employee and the problem 1. What drives the employee? 2. How are you contributing to the problem? - Consider range of outcomes - Discuss problem and reach resolution - Describe problem from your perspectiv
Energizing Difficult People
Competent
Organizing
Objectivity
40. Receiving - Responding - Valuing
Motivation
Management
Organizing
Levels in the Affective Domain
41. Having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy.
Interpersonal skills
Levels in the Affective Domain
Decisive
Networking
42. The ability to manage relationships - build networks - and find common ground
Mixed
Objectivity
Social Skill
Strategic
43. One who includes employees in making decisions
Planning
Democratic Leader
Empathy
Leader
44. Directive and controlling style of management
Humility
Self-Disciplined
Tactical
Management Style
45. Having suitable or sufficient skill - knowledge - experience - etc. - for some purpose.
Coaching
Competent
Diversity
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
46. 1. Communication skills 2. Interpersonal skills 3. Conflict-resolution skills 4. Negotiation skills 5. Motivational skills
Democratic Leader
Skills of successful leaders
Management Style
Affiliative
47. Directing and leading people
Coaching
Implementing
Characteristics of Leaders
Networking
48. Used when a leader needs to give direct - clear - and precise orders and makes decision
Top Management
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Autocratic Leader
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
49. 1. Self-awareness 2. Self-regulation 3. Motivation 4. Empathy 5. Social Skill
Ethics
Self-awareness
Characteristics of Leaders
Tactical
50. Analyzing of information - setting goals - and making decisions about what needs to be done
Planning
Communication skills
Emotional/Social Intelligence
Conflict-resolution skills