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Leadership 101 Practice Test: Why Leadership Matters 2
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Leadership 101 Practice Test: Why Leadership Matters 2
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1. Research about the difference between male and female managers indicates that women are generally less effective leaders, but excellent managers.
2. Financial pressures often force organizations to select ruthless leaders.
3. Job satisfaction is higher in organizations with more bureaucracy and lower autonomy.
4. For Barbara Waugh, personnel manager of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, effectiveness is communication, collaboration, and innovation.
5. Becoming an effective leader requires experimentation and organizational support.
6. The focus on quality forces organizations to expect leaders to be in charge and show dominance.
7. Planning and organizing is increasingly being done by followers instead of leaders alone.
8. Women currently hold 20 percent of all executive positions in the United States.
9. While leadership is an age-old concept, the idea of management was developed during the industrial revolution.
10. Effective managers often have to perform roles and functions attributed to leaders.
11. As the leader
12. By 2025, Hispanics are estimated to outnumber African Americans in the United States.
13. Recent research suggests that leaders must be able to manage their followers
14. Rick Sapio, CEO of Mutual.com, and Jeff Imelt, of GE, both focus on listening to their employees.
15. Most researchers agree that leadership and management are basically the same concept.
16. Managers tend to take a long-term perspective, whereas leaders take a short-term perspective
17. The key to effective leadership is practice and learning from one
18. The factors that are fueling leadership changes include legal pressures and requirements.
19. The homogeneity of managers in the U.S. is highly beneficial to creativity.
20. Leadership in traditional organizations continues to include a desire for control and power.
21. Rewards based on individual performance and employees
22. Sweden leads all countries in percentage of women who hold senior level executive positions.
23. Fred Luthans found that only 10% of managers are both effective and successful.
24. Male images of leadership which include dominance and control are no longer used in most organizations.
25. The definition of leadership effectiveness depends on the organization and the context.