An alternative to the glass ceiling metaphor and perhaps a more accurate description of
the leadership labyrinth is described as
a. Women not in the lower-level pipeline
b. The glass cliff
c. Difficulty of women to gain leadership positions at all levels of leadership
d. The glass escalator
Foresight and conceptualization are two characteristics of the first model of servant
leadership.
a. True
b. False
Career experience is a strong influence on a leader’s competencies.
a. True
b. False
I focus on the big picture and observe the problems as a whole but always stay fully
engaged in the challenge with our employees. This is an example of which adaptive
leader behavior?
a. Identify adaptive challenges
b. Competing commitments
c. Protect leadership voices from below
d. Get on the balcony
The leadership profile that places the most importance on charismatic/value-based,
team-oriented, and self-protective leader behaviors is
a. Confucian Asia
b. Southern Asia
c. Latin America
d. Latin Europe
Which of the following are considered directive behaviors?
a. One-way communication
b. Problem solving
c. Setting time lines
d. Listening
In SLII®, Style 2 is low directive and low supportive.
a. True
b. False
What are the two critical functions of team effectiveness in Hill’s model?
a. Development and analysis
b. Performance and leader outcomes
c. Leadership outcomes and analysis
d. Performance and development
The developmental perspective of authentic leadership emphasizes balanced processing
and relational transparency.
a. True
b. False
Applying the trait approach to 21stcentury leadership
a. Lacks credibility
b. Helps us understand behaviors of leaders
c. Informs that leader’s traits are a part of leadership process
d. Tells us which traits are important in which contexts
Three of my followers each have very different views about how to solve a team
problem. When I explore each of their opinions and keep bias out of the decision, I am
using which component of authentic leadership?
a. Resilience
b. Self-awareness
c. Internal moral processing
d. Balanced processing
Research on transformational leadership did not find that
a. All four components of transformational leadership are positively related to
leadership effectiveness.
b. Men tend to engage in more contingent reward behavior than women.
c. Women tend to engage in more contingent reward behavior than men.
d. Men’s styles tend to be less transformational than women’s.
Roles being tested in leadership-making means
a. The leader and follower have already tested their interactions and found them
satisfactory
b. The leader and follower are assessing desire for the follower to take on new
responsibilities
c. The leader and follower are focused on the rules of interaction
d. The leader and follower are comfortable depending on each other
Derrick is focused on helping his followers while using his values system and “heart.”
Even in tough times he does not compromise his values. Derrick is applying
a. Authentic leader behaviors consistent with the theoretical model
b. Authentic leader behaviors consistent with the practical approach
c. Transformational leader behaviors consistent with Bass’s model
d. Transactional leader behaviors consistent with Burns’s model
The ethical issues presented in the leadership ethics chapter
a. Provide a model of ethical leadership theory
b. Provide a guide to ethical issues in leadership situations
c. Constitute a leadership ethics theory
d. Are clear prescriptions for leading ethically