One criticism of servant leadership is
a. Researchers have been unable to reach a consensus on a common definition.
b. Servant leadership makes altruism the central component of the leadership process.
c. There is not enough focus on the role of influence and power in leadership.
d. A follower’s readiness to receive servant leadership moderates its potential
usefulness.
Beth and James are in a dyadic relationship on a work team in which both of them are
focused on the group’s goals and outcomes. Beth and James are in
a. Tested roles
b. Low-quality exchange
c. Stranger phase
d. Mature partnership phase
Kirkpatrick and Locke’s research postulated that
a. Individuals are only born with traits
b. Traits can be learned
c. Traits cannot be learned
d. Traits are unimportant to leadership
If team goals are unclear, an internal relational intervention is needed to focus on
building commitment.
a. True
b. False
Who solves adaptive challenges?
a. Employees
b. Leaders and followers
c. Leaders
d. The organization
Giving an employee a merit-based pay raise is an example of
a. Respect.
b. Service.
c. Distributive justice.
d. Altruism.
Transformational leadership stresses that leaders need to
a. Focus first on themselves; then the followers
b. Understand the needs of the followers
c. Adapt to the needs of the followers
d. Use transactional leadership for highly motivated followers
Developing and promoting women leaders are in the best interest of employers.
a. True
b. False
The dyadic relationships in LMX occur between
a. The leader and other leaders
b. The leader and the in-group followers
c. The leader and each follower
d. The followers and each other follower
61. Who used research from the fields of positive psychology and positive
organizational behavior to identify psychological attributes that contribute to authentic
leadership?
a. Terry
b. George
c. Walumbwa et al.
d. Luthans and Avolio
The trait approach determines the most important traits in a highly objective way.
a. True
b. False
The positive psychological attributes are
a. Fixed parts of personality
b. Fixed skills of leaders
c. Developable behaviors
d. Developable characteristics
The highly competent, highly committed follower benefits from
a. A leader who provides a high level of support
b. A leader who directs tasks carefully
c. A leader who stays out of the day-to-day tasks and provides low levels of support
d. A leader who is both a cheerleader and authoritarian
When comparing environmental constraints or advantages and psychodynamic
approach to leader effectiveness, which of the following statements is true?
a. Environmental constraints have the greatest impact on leader effectiveness.
b. Environmental advantages stymie leader effectiveness.
c. Psychodynamic processes in leader-follower interactions greatly influence leader
effectiveness.
d. Psychodynamic processes in leader-follower interactions are less influential on leader
effectiveness than environmental advantages
Leadership skills research attempts to
a. Identify largely fixed abilities in leaders
b. Identify multiple behaviors in leaders
c. Identify personality factors of leadership
d. Identify competencies that can be acquired by leaders
According to the GLOBE study, which of these is not a cultural dimension?
a. Institutional collectivism
b. In-group collectivism
c. Division of labor
d. Future orientation
My math teacher not only helps me solve difficult equations, but she also wrote me a
great letter of recommendation for the college I want to attend that has a highly ranked
math department. She is using which servant leader behavior?
a. Helping followers grow and succeed
b. Emotional healing
c. Behaving ethically
d. Conceptualizing