Leadership Fundamentals
Leader Characteristics
Styles & Behaviors
Ethics & Conflict
Everything Else
100
This approach to understanding leadership assumes that leaders are born, rather than made.
What is the trait approach?
100
This leader trait is characterized by having good language skills, perceptual skills, and reasoning ability.
What is intelligence?
100
The leadership philosophy that assumes followers want security, rather than responsibility?
What is Theory X?
100
The influence of a moral person who moves others to do the right things, in the right way, for the right reasons
What is ethical leadership?
100

The category of leadership skills that is highly important across all "levels of leadership" in an organization

What are interpersonal skills?

200
These are groups in which formal leadership is absent.
What are leaderless groups?
200
This collection of leader traits represents leader characteristics that, on average, have a negative effect on leader performance
What are "dark side" traits?
200
This leadership style closely aligns with the Theory Y philosophy.
What is democratic leadership?
200

From the article "Moral Person and Moral Manager", one of the three ways a leader can establish a reputation as ethical in his/her organization

What is role modeling, rewards & discipline, or communicating about ethics & values?

200
The element of leader vision that gives others a path to follow
What is a map?
300
This approach to leadership focuses on the communication between the leader and followers, rather than on the unique qualities of the leader
What is the relationship approach?
300
This leader trait is characterized by a preference for hierarchy in social systems
What is social dominance?
300
This leadership style can be effective in times of crisis when quick decisions need to be made
What is authoritarian leadership?
300
One of the two pillars of ethical leadership
What is Moral Person (or Moral Manager)?
300
The two components that make up people's perceptions of inclusion
What are perceptions of belonging and value for uniqueness?
400
This approach to understanding leadership views it as something that can be studied and learned.
What is the skills approach?
400
According to the Gallup perspective, the four domains of leadership strengths are: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building, and...
What is Strategic Thinking?
400
Leader behavior that focuses on defining roles, organizing work, and scheduling activities
What is task-focused leadership behavior?
400
The conflict management style in which you are highly cooperative in attempting to satisfy the other person's concerns, and highly assertive in trying to satisfy your own concerns
What is collaboration?
400
These skills have high value only with a specific employer and have little/no value on the external labor market
What are firm-specific skills?
500
One of the top three challenges commonly mentioned by first-time leaders
What are people management/authority or developing managerial/personal effectiveness or leading team achievement
500
The Strengths equation
What is Talent x Investment = Strength?
500
When a team is reluctant to share knowledge, challenge ideas, or admit mistakes, more of this type of leader behavior may be needed
What is relationship-focused leader behavior?
500
A communication strategy for handling conflict that involves breaking larger conflict down into smaller, more manageable pieces
What is fractionation?
500
The formal process for identifying and developing potential leaders who will eventually replace existing leaders in an organization
What is succession planning?
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