Leadership and Decision Making Quiz
Strong situations that are governed by clearly specified rules, demands, and organizational policies
maximize the effects that traits have on behavior
FALSE
The strength of the relationship between personality traits and leadership effectiveness is often
inversely related to the relative strength of the situation.
TRUE
Research has shown that openness to experience is an important component of leadership
effectiveness and seems particularly important at higher organizational levels or for success in
overseas assignments.
TRUE
Leaders who score low in conscientiousness tend to be more spontaneous, creative, and impulsive.
TRUE
Leaders tend to have higher extraversion scores than nonleaders.
TRUE
Behavioral manifestations of personality traits are often exhibited with conscious thought rather
than automatically.
FALSE
In the context of the building blocks of skills, knowledge and experience are easier components to
change than intelligence and personality traits.
TRUE
Effective leaders tend to score high on neuroticism, extraversion, and agreeableness and low on
conscientious and openness to experience.
FALSE
An advantage of the OCEAN model is that it is a useful method for profiling leaders.
TRUE
Feeling leaders tend to analyze, criticize, and approach decisions impersonally and objectively.
FALSE
The Forer effect occurs when people give high accuracy ratings to descriptive statements that are
personally flattering but so vague that they could apply to virtually anyone.
TRUE
Analytic intelligence is general problem-solving ability and can be assessed using standardized
mental abilities tests
TRUE
Analytic intelligence is much more concerned with knowledge and experience than is practical
intelligence.
FALSE
Smart but inexperienced leaders tend to be more effective in stressful situations than less
intelligent, experienced leaders.
TRUE
With respect to creative intelligence, perhaps the most important point leaders should remember
is that their primary role is not so much to be creative themselves as to build an environment where
others can be creative.
TRUE
Tests of divergent thinking usually have a single best answer, whereas tests of convergent thinking
have many possible answers.
FALSE
Stress is often defined as the result of conflicts with superiors or the apprehension associated with
performance evaluation.
TRUE
Most EQ researchers agree that emotional intelligence cannot be developed.
FALSE
Leaders who can empathize and get along with others are often more successful than those who
cannot.
TRUE
Ability-based EQ training programs make extensive use of videos and role plays to help
participants better recognize, exhibit, and regulate emotion.
TRUE
"I remain calm in pressure situations." This statement most likely corresponds to which of the
following OCEAN personality dimensions?
NEUROTICISM
In the OCEAN model, the personality dimension that is concerned with curiosity, innovative
thinking, and assimilating new information is known as
OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE
According to the Five Factor Model (FFM) or OCEAN model of personality, leaders who score
high in openness to experience tend to
BE BIG-PICTURES THINKERS
Unlike leaders who score low in conscientiousness, those who score high in conscientiousness
RARELY GET INTO TROUBLE
According to the Five Factor Model (FFM) or OCEAN model of personality, which of the
following dimensions primarily involves behaviors that are highly likely to be exhibited in group
settings and are generally concerned with getting ahead in life?
EXTRAVERSION
Unlike individuals who score low in extraversion, individuals who score high in this dimension
COME ACROSS TO OTHERS AS DECISIVE AND OPINIONATED
According to the OCEAN model, individuals who appear as insensitive, socially clueless,
pessimistic, cold, and grumpy are most likely to score low in
AGREEABLENESS
According to the Five Factor Model (FFM) or OCEAN model of personality, which of the
following statements is most likely true about agreeableness?
IT ESSENTIALLY CONCERNS ONE'S NEED FOR APPROVAL.
According to the Five Factor Model (FFM) or OCEAN model of personality, the dimension of
neuroticism is most likely
CONCERNED WITH HOW PEOPLE REACT TO STRESS, CHANGE, FAILURE, OR
PERSONAL CRITICISM.
Leaders who score low in neuroticism tend to
HIDE THEIR EMOTIONS
The ________ states that if one simply works hard and achieves superior results, then good things
will happen.
JUST WORLD HYPOTHESIS
According to Myers and Myers, there are four basic preference dimensions in which people can
differ. Identify a true statement about people exhibiting these dimensions.
INTROVERTED LEADERS PREFER TO THINK THINGS THROUGH AND
ANNOUNCE ONLY FINAL DECISIONS
According to Myers and Myers's basic preference dimensions in which people can differ, the
thinking-feeling dimension
IS CONCERNED WITH THE CONSIDERATIONS LEADERS PREFER WHEN
MAKING DECISIONS.
Which of the following theories explains the interesting relationships between leader intelligence
and experience levels, and group performance in stressful versus nonstressful conditions?
COGNITIVE RESOURCES THEORIES
In the context of Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, leaders and followers who possess
high levels of analytic intelligence
TEND TO BE QUICK LEARNERS AND DO WELL IN SCHOOL.
Raymond scores high on practical intelligence and has extensive knowledge and experience in
leading a pharmaceutical research team. He is likely to feel uncomfortable and unprepared when
asked to organize a major fund-raising activity for a charitable institution. This example illustrates
that practical intelligence is most likely
DOMAIN SPECIFIC
According to Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence, creative intelligence is
THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE WORK THAT IS BOTH NOVEL AND USEFUL.
According to Reuven Bar-On's model of emotional intelligence, reality testing, flexibility, and
problem-solving relate to
ADAPTABILITY
According to Goleman's conceptualization of emotional intelligence (EQ), the "change catalyst"
attribute most likely corresponds to the ________ dimension of the OCEAN model.
EXTRAVERSION
Which of the following terms is most likely defined as the ability to intentionally pay attention to
the present moment while letting go of judgment?
MINDFULNESS