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Your company's HR director is a believer in trait theories of leadership. He believes that he can differentiate leaders from non-leaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics. The HR director plans to promote Lawrence, a highly extroverted manager with a great deal of ambition and energy. Furthermore, the president of the company is preparing to retire, and the HR director is searching for her replacement. He asks for your expertise in helping him to apply trait theory to leadership selection within your company. The director believes that because of these innate characteristics, Lawrence will be highly effective at helping the company achieve its production goals. You advise the director against this decision because ________.

research has identified emotional stability as the strongest predictor of leadership effectiveness
studies have found that the Big Five traits are difficult to identify in leaders
studies have shown that traits are poor predictors of leadership effectiveness
research has found that conscientiousness is a better predictor of effectiveness than extroversion
research has shown that effective managers are often unlikely to become effective leaders

Your boss has been reading several books on leadership. You notice that every few months he is spouting a different approach and philosophy. You have been trying to keep up with him and figure out which "leadership theory of the month" he is studying. Suddenly your boss begins sending people to training to help them develop more effective leadership styles. It is clear that he is reading an author who supports ________.

trait theories
behavioral theories
Fiedler's contingency model
the reflection effect
none of the above

Because he has an internationally based team, Leo and the team do most of their business communications via e-mail. Which of the following represents what is least likely to be true of Leo's experience working with the team in an online environment?

Leo relies heavily on his written skills to communicate support and inspiration.
Team members must be particularly adept at reading emotions in others' messages.
Team members tend to have high levels of identification-based trust.
Negotiations between team members sometimes stall due to lack of trust.
Leo uses written communication to reinforce what he conveys to team members verbally.

Leadership and management are two terms that are often confused. 

True
False

The Ohio State Studies involved research on only two dimensions - initiating structure and consideration.
True
False

The Fiedler contingency model proposes that effective group performance depends upon the proper match between a leader's style and the degree to which a situation gives control to the leader.
True
False

Most experts believe that individuals may be trained to exhibit charismatic behavior.
True
False