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Leadership And Motivation
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soft-skills
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The ability to recognize and understand your moods - emotions - and drives as well as their effect on others
Empathy
Autocratic Leader
Self-awareness
Management Style
2. Feature of a mixed workforce that provides a wide range of abilities - experience - knowledge - and strengths due to its heterogeneity in age - background - ethnicity - physical abilities - political and religious beliefs - sex - and other attributes
Motivation
Diversity
Leadership
Staffing
3. The way a manager treats and involves employees
Democratic Leader
Management Style
Initiative
Management
4. Judgment based on observable experience and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices.
Levels in the Affective Domain
Supervisors
Competent
Objectivity
5. One who includes employees in making decisions
Staffing
Humility
Affiliative
Democratic Leader
6. The ability to manage relationships - build networks - and find common ground
Social Skill
Open Leader
Top Management
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
7. 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
Controlling
Energizing Difficult People
Self-Disciplined
Competent
8. 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
Humility
Coaching
Planning
Self-regulation
9. Executives responsible for the direction and success of the entire business
Top Management
Characteristics of Leaders
Self-Disciplined
Implementing
10. An introductory act or step; leading action
Initiative
Leadership
Top Management
Management
11. Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundless of moral character; honestly.
Initiative
Integrity
Self-awareness
Open Leader
12. To align people who may not report to you toward a goal - 'Get them excited!'
Pacesetting
Motivational skills
Self-regulation
Team
13. 1. Self mastery - how you manage/master yourself. 2. You feel chemistry with person
Levels in the Affective Domain
Emotional/Social Intelligence
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
14. Directing and leading people
Motivation
Negotiation skills
Implementing
Team
15. Having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy.
Decisive
Leader
Implementing
Tactical
16. One who tries to figure out how to orchestrate people in order to get things done ...has very good social skills
Leader
Tyrant
Top Management
Staffing
17. A spiritual power or personal quality that gives an individual influence or authority over large numbers of people
Charisma
Mid-Management
Open Leader
Top Management
18. Directive and controlling style of management
Authoritative
Interpersonal skills
Top Management
Tactical
19. To handle friction and inevitable tensions - - short-term - 'fighting fires'
Mid-Management
Social Skill
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
Conflict-resolution skills
20. The arrangement of resources in order to meet goals
Authoritative
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
Coaching
Organizing
21. Providing extrensic awards may...
Implementing
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
Leadership
Humility
22. To listen and hear what people are saying and react in constructive ways (active listening).
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
Decisive
Interpersonal skills
Supervisors
23. Creating a group of acquaintances and associates and keeping it active through regular communication for mutual benefits.
Tyrant
Self-regulation
Organizing
Networking
24. Analyzing of information - setting goals - and making decisions about what needs to be done
Tactical
Energizing Difficult People
Levels in the Affective Domain
Planning
25. The quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance - rank - etc.
Planning
Humility
Emotional/Social Intelligence
Conflict-resolution skills
26. To bring different groups together in order to reach mutually agreeable goals
Tactical
Negotiation skills
Communication skills
Interpersonal skills
27. The combination of tactical and strategic management
Mixed
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
Motivational skills
Emotional/Social Intelligence
28. Obtaining - training - and compensating employees
Pacesetting
Top Management
Staffing
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
29. Used when a leader needs to give direct - clear - and precise orders and makes decision
Authoritative
Pacesetting
Competent
Autocratic Leader
30. A group of people working harmoniously together to effectively achieve a common goal
Affiliative
Leadership Styles
Team
Levels in the Affective Domain
31. Managers are less directive and involve employees in the decision-making
Supervisors
Integrity
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
Strategic
32. 1. Self-awareness 2. Self-regulation 3. Motivation 4. Empathy 5. Social Skill
Characteristics of Leaders
Motivating Others
Networking
Self-Disciplined
33. 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
Open Leader
Controlling
Diversity
Authoritative
34. Determining to what extent the business is accomplishing the goals
Controlling
Skills of successful leaders
Tyrant
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
35. The ability to control or redirect disruptive impulses and moods - suspend judgment - and think before acting
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
Reduce intrinsic motivation in some cases
Self-regulation
Tyrant
36. This 'do what I say' style demands immediate compliance. It is especially useful in turnaround situations - in a crisis - and with problem employees. However - using this style inhibits your organization's flexibility and can dampen employee motivati
Coercive
Staffing
Strategic
Integrity
37. To speak and write persuasively
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Conflict-resolution skills
Communication skills
Supervisors
38. A leader without ethics
Management Style
Objectivity
Self-Disciplined
Tyrant
39. The process of accomplishing the goals of an organization through the effective use of people and other resources
Characteristics of Leaders
Management
Coercive
Competent
40. 1. Be consistent 2. Be passionate 3. Provide feedback 4. Make communication two-way 5. Issue calls in action 6. Choose media wisely
Planning
Keys to succesfull communication
Negotiation skills
Coercive
41. Management of Attention - Management of Meaning - Mangament of Trust - Management of Self
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
Coercive
Tactical
Bennis/Nanus variant leader characteristics
42. First level of management; responsible for the work of a group of employees
Supervisors
Social Skill
Mid-Management
Pacesetting
43. Discipline and training of oneself - usually for improvement.
Self-Disciplined
Mixed
Empathy
Conflict-resolution skills
44. External Factors: Benefits - working conditions - salary - etc. Internal Factors: Achievement - feedback - responsibility
Open/Laissez-Faire Leader
Motivational skills
Humility
Motivating Others
45. The ability to pursue goals with energy and persistence - for reasons that go beyond money or status
Motivation
Levels in the Affective Domain
Organizing
Objectivity
46. Having suitable or sufficient skill - knowledge - experience - etc. - for some purpose.
Keys to succesfull communication
Authoritative
Decisive
Competent
47. 1. Coercive 2. Authoritative 3. Affiliative 4. Democratic 5. Pacesetting 6. Coaching
Social Skill
Motivational skills
Humility
Leadership Styles
48. 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.
Motivation
Skills of successful leaders
Affiliative
Emotional/Social Intelligence
49. The ability to motivate individuals and groups to accomplish important goals
Pacesetting
Empathy
Management Style
Leadership
50. 1. Communication skills 2. Interpersonal skills 3. Conflict-resolution skills 4. Negotiation skills 5. Motivational skills
Warren Bennis' Leadership Competencies
Skills of successful leaders
Strategic
Self-Disciplined