Which of These Statements About Leadership Is FALSE

question 33

Multiple Choice

Which of these statements about leadership is FALSE?

• A)Anyone may be a leader at an appropriate time and place.
• B)Leaders use power and persuasion to get others to achieve organizational objectives.
• C)In the 1940s,leadership experts identified seven competencies that are consistently associated with effective leadership.
• D)Effective leaders provide an environment for followers to achieve team or organizational objectives.
• E)Organizational behaviour scholars have studied leadership from several different perspectives.

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Definitions:

Opportunity

A set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something or that creates a chance for progress or advancement.

Maslow

A renowned American psychologist who developed the concept of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which suggests that psychological well-being is based on meeting certain fundamental human needs.

Self-Actualization

The realization or fulfillment of one's talents and potentialities, especially considered as a drive or need present in everyone.

Hierarchy Of Needs

A framework proposed by Abraham Maslow that outlines a series of human needs ranging from the most basic physiological needs to higher-order needs of self-actualization.