You provide a pay raise to a follower who has received high scores on annual
performance reviews two years in a row. You are demonstrating
a. Management by exception-passive
b. Management by exception-active
c. Individualized consideration
d. Contingent reward
In the Leadership Grid, a person who uses but does not integrate the 1, 9 and 9, 1
behavioral styles of leadership could be called a “benevolent dictator.”
a. True
b. False
Coercive leadership is not considered ideal leadership as defined in this text because
a. Influence in leadership includes followers and leaders working toward a common
goal
b. Process is a part of the definition in both coercion and leadership
c. Forcing and manipulative behaviors are legitimate leadership tactics
d. Coercive leadership involves both individual and common goals
Greenleaf’s original writing about servant leadership is accepted as a leadership
a. Theory
b. Model
c. Approach
d. Dissertation
A criticism of situational approach is
a. It is unclear how followers move along the developmental continuum
b. The research does not support a universal leadership style
c. Research does not clearly support the theoretical framework
d. Flexibility and adaptability are unreasonable behavioral expectations
The cultural dimension defined as the degree to which an organization encourages
institutional or societal collective action is
a. In-group collectivisim
b. Future orientation
c. Assertiveness
d. Institutional collectivism
I think about situations and the future with a sense of abundance. What influencing
factor of authentic leadership am I using?
a. Moral reasoning
b. Integrity
c. Optimism
d. Confidence
Path-goal leadership is not a trait approach that locks leaders into only one kind of
leadership.
a. True
b. False
The extent to which people are devoted to their organizations and families is
a. In-group collectivisim
b. Future orientation
c. Institutional collectivism
d. Humane orientation
According to Katz, the most important leadership skills for lower-levels of management
are
a. Technical skills
b. Problem-solving skills
c. Technical, human, and conceptual skills
d. Technical and human skills
e. Conceptual and human skills
Some positive communication behaviors that account for successful leader emergence
are
a. Sense of humor, facial expressiveness.
b. Being dominant, speaking frequently.
c. Differentiating oneself from the group, challenging group norms.
d. Being informed, initiating new ideas.
During the stranger phase of leadership making, the exchanges are
a. Low quality
b. Medium quality
c. Moderately high quality
d. High quality
The ideas and mental abilities that people learn through experiences can best be
described as
a. Crystal cognitive ability
b. Motivation
c. Career experiences
d. General cognitive ability
e. Performance
Which leader behavior is a prerequisite for the other adaptive leader behaviors?
a. Regulate distress
b. Identify adaptive challenges
c. Maintain disciplined attention
d. Get on the balcony
The environmental influences listed are all internal, with the exception of
a. Slow Internet
b. Limited office space
c. Highly competent followers
d. Simplistic task
e. Flooding of the office
Having a benchmark for what to look for if we want to be leaders is about
a. Trying to develop specifically the five major traits in the text
b. Giving a boss a specific set of traits to look for in potential new hires
c. Helping individuals see their own traits and decide if these are leadership traits
d. Specifically determining traits for a particular job promotion
My leader tries to appreciate what I am thinking and feeling in our interactions; he is
using which characteristic of a servant leader?
a. Empathy
b. Listening
c. Persuasion
d. Conceptualization