MGT 6615 CHAPTER 3 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
Developed a capability model that includes individual attributes, competencies, and leadership
outcomes. - ANS Mumford et al.
Which is not a social judgment skill? - ANS Knowledge acquisition
The basic premise of the skills approach is to - ANS Identify the skills of leaders
The skills approach is primarily - ANS Descriptive
In Mumford's Skills Model, social judgment skill is defined as - ANS The capacity to
understand people and social systems
In the skills model, which of these is a general cognitive ability? - ANS Information processing
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,A supervisory-level manager of a company who applies the level of administrative skills to the
degrees delineated in Katz's model - ANS Is more "hands-on" with producing the company's
product than interacting with staff
A chief operating officer of the company who applies the level of administrative skills to the
degrees delineated in Katz's model - ANS Incorporates the entire staff in the process of
shaping the company's goals
The classic article "Skills of an Effective Administrator" by Katz was published in the -
ANS Harvard Business Review
The environmental influences listed are all internal, with the exception of - ANS Flooding of
the office
I am meeting my new team, which I will directly supervise for the first time. I introduce myself
and jump right into the agenda items for the jobs each team member will be assigned. I am
using - ANS Task behaviors
Before the inception of the behavioral approach, leadership was treated exclusively as a(n) -
ANS Sets of skills
I am the lead barista at a local coffee shop managing four staff. I chat often with the staff and
enjoy joking with them but only after I have assigned the tasks and they have accomplished
them. My behavior would plot on the Blake & Mouton Leadership Grid at what point? -
ANS 5, 5
A leader who is indifferent and apathetic is displaying - ANS Impoverished behaviors
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, Which of the components on Blake & Mouton's Leadership Grid has low concern for
interpersonal relationships and high concern for task accomplishment? - ANS Authority
compliance
The director of your department attends one weekly meeting. The director is seldom at the
office outside of the meeting and rarely responds to e-mails when you send questions
pertaining to the organization. This is an example of - ANS Impoverished management
A leader who places high emphasis on job requirements and low emphasis on people is
displaying - ANS Authority compliance behaviors
Paternalism/maternalism refers to a leader who - ANS Is a benevolent dictator
The behavioral approach works by - ANS Describing major components of leader behaviors
Which study analyzed questionnaires taken by followers as they described their leader
behaviors? - ANS Ohio State studies
Katz started the research focus on skills during a time when - ANS There was still
disagreement about leader traits in the literature
The main goal of Mumford et al.'s research was - ANS To explain the elements of effective
performance
Which part of the skills model supports people as they apply their leadership competencies? -
ANS Individual attributes
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
Developed a capability model that includes individual attributes, competencies, and leadership
outcomes. - ANS Mumford et al.
Which is not a social judgment skill? - ANS Knowledge acquisition
The basic premise of the skills approach is to - ANS Identify the skills of leaders
The skills approach is primarily - ANS Descriptive
In Mumford's Skills Model, social judgment skill is defined as - ANS The capacity to
understand people and social systems
In the skills model, which of these is a general cognitive ability? - ANS Information processing
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,A supervisory-level manager of a company who applies the level of administrative skills to the
degrees delineated in Katz's model - ANS Is more "hands-on" with producing the company's
product than interacting with staff
A chief operating officer of the company who applies the level of administrative skills to the
degrees delineated in Katz's model - ANS Incorporates the entire staff in the process of
shaping the company's goals
The classic article "Skills of an Effective Administrator" by Katz was published in the -
ANS Harvard Business Review
The environmental influences listed are all internal, with the exception of - ANS Flooding of
the office
I am meeting my new team, which I will directly supervise for the first time. I introduce myself
and jump right into the agenda items for the jobs each team member will be assigned. I am
using - ANS Task behaviors
Before the inception of the behavioral approach, leadership was treated exclusively as a(n) -
ANS Sets of skills
I am the lead barista at a local coffee shop managing four staff. I chat often with the staff and
enjoy joking with them but only after I have assigned the tasks and they have accomplished
them. My behavior would plot on the Blake & Mouton Leadership Grid at what point? -
ANS 5, 5
A leader who is indifferent and apathetic is displaying - ANS Impoverished behaviors
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, Which of the components on Blake & Mouton's Leadership Grid has low concern for
interpersonal relationships and high concern for task accomplishment? - ANS Authority
compliance
The director of your department attends one weekly meeting. The director is seldom at the
office outside of the meeting and rarely responds to e-mails when you send questions
pertaining to the organization. This is an example of - ANS Impoverished management
A leader who places high emphasis on job requirements and low emphasis on people is
displaying - ANS Authority compliance behaviors
Paternalism/maternalism refers to a leader who - ANS Is a benevolent dictator
The behavioral approach works by - ANS Describing major components of leader behaviors
Which study analyzed questionnaires taken by followers as they described their leader
behaviors? - ANS Ohio State studies
Katz started the research focus on skills during a time when - ANS There was still
disagreement about leader traits in the literature
The main goal of Mumford et al.'s research was - ANS To explain the elements of effective
performance
Which part of the skills model supports people as they apply their leadership competencies? -
ANS Individual attributes
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