Recent questions and answers in Attitude and Leadership

Among the components of attitude ___________ is the only component that can be observed directly.CognitiveBehaviouralObservationAffective

Attitude is the main predictor of ___________.ObservationBehaviourPerformancePerception

Downward communication is outlined below. Which one is correct?The communication is between two supervisorsThe flow of communication is from the head nurse to supervisorT...

Supervision and delegation fall to what phase of the management process :OrganizingDirectingControllingPlanning

It is a managerial function that indicates leading the staff in the most applicable method :PlanningDirectingOrganisingControlling

What must a cost-leadership strategy accomplish to be successful ?It must reduce the firm's cost below that of its competitors while offering adequate value.It must incre...

Which of the following is not a result of Positive attitude of employee?Improved productivitySuccessful OrganisationHigher performanceFavourable Response

A person has some important attitude, those attitudes are likely to be :Mutually consistentAccessiblePersistent over timeAll of the above

A phobia may be based on which components of attitude?Only behaviouralOnly affectiveUniversal traitsMulti-component evaluations

The theory of cognitive dissonance was proposed by ____________.Abraham MaslowGeert HofstedeDaryl BemLeon Festinger

In the Blake and Mouton Leadership grid, which management style has a low concern for people but a high concern for production?ImpoverishedMiddle-of-the-roadCountry clubA...

Leadership Continuum was developed by :Prof. BernardProf. TerryTannenbaum and SchmidtStephen Robbins

Which of the following is a quality of a leader, as opposed to a manager?flexibleanalyticalrationalstabilizing

The $\text{VUCA}$ model of leadership is based on the premise that :The world is changing rapidly like never beforeDiverse forms of leadership can cause unnecessary compl...

Leadership behaviour influenced by certain qualities of a person is ____________.Followers theoryTrait theorySituational theoryManagerial theory

During controlling and evaluating phase, which one of the following is quality improvement method utilized by institutions?Credentialing and licensingStandards of careCli...

Which of the following statements about leadership is false?Leadership does not necessarily take place within a hierarchical structure of an organisationWhen people opera...

The foundation or base of the components of Job related attitude is ____________.BehaviourIndividual AttitudeJob satisfactionJob Performance

According to Esses et al. $(1993)$ feelings and emotions influence ___________.Attitude towards liked groupsProcessing of personally salient informationAttitude towards d...

Leadership is concerned with :Leading other individualsLeading groupsLeading organisationAll of these

Theory of planned behaviour was developed by ______________.DavisAjzenKatzEdward Thorndike

The belief that "discrimination is wrong" is a value statement. Such an opinion is the _____________ component of an attitude.CognitiveAffectiveReactiveBehavioural

If attitude and behaviour are inconsistent, individuals will most likely ___________.change their behaviourchange their attitudechange either their attitude or behaviourd...

You are requested by your instructor to differentiate a leader and a manager. Which one is incorrect?A leader relies on trust while a manager relies on control.A leader m...

An investigator who wishes to study the attitudes of people in Illinois identifies $1,000$ people in Illinois, taking care that the percentages of male and female, black ...

A range of management behaviours based on the various ways that task-oriented and employee-oriented styles (each expressed as a continuum on a scale of $1$ to $9)$ is kno...

Which incident amongst the following shows "leading by example"?Manager makes policy to reduce costs and frequently buys furniture for his officeManager has an open door ...

Employees with ___________ strongly identify with and care about the kind of work they do.High job involvementHigh cognitive dissonanceLow psychological empowermentLow or...

___________ refers to evaluative statements or judgments concerning objects, people, or events.PerceptionAppearanceAttitudeDemeanour

Leadership today is increasingly associated with the concept of __________.Getting others to followControlCommandStrategy

The Thurstone scale is an example of :An implicit attitude measureAn explicit attitude measureA form of evaluative primingAn implicit alternative to association tests

Which of the following are predictors of attitude strength?AccessibilityConsistencyAmbivalenceAll of these

Which Management Guru believed that managers should, above all else, be leaders?Michael PorterPeter DruckerTom PetersPhilip Kotler

As a manager, one of James' duties is to present awards to outstanding employees within his department. Which Mintzberg managerial role is James acting on when he does th...

An individual is rejected in a job interview, which he was very eager to join. Now he claims his present job is better. He is using ____________.Reaction FormationProject...

"A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees an opportunity in every difficulty." These words were said by :Winston ChurchillAbraham LincolnAPJ Kal...

The ______________ of an attitude tells us whether an attitude is positive or negative towards the attitude object.CentralityValenceExtremenessSimplicity

Which can be considered as a difficulty in changing the Attitude of the employees ?Providing new informationUse of fearInfluence by friends and peersEscalation of Commitm...

The heroic leader :greatly influences by their strong confidence in themselvesis someone whom we greatly respectcan save people from many difficult situationsAll of these

Which describes an informal leader ?Competencies and continuing education.The leader of the team because of years of experience in the department.The leader of the team s...