Which of the following leadership traits or skills is more likely to belong to men than to
women?
a. Intelligence
b. Initiative
c. Persuasiveness
d. Authoritative
94. Optimism is a factor that influences authentic leadership.
a. True
b. False
Personality and other personal characteristics are unrelated to the process of how
in-groups
are formed.
a. True
b. False
What is the basis of authentic leadership?
a. The positive psychological capacities
b. The four components
c. Critical life events
d. Internalized moral perspective
The study of the usefulness of the psychodynamic approach in studying leadership in
organizational structures is quite different from the way leadership is studied and
recommendations for leadership development that address more observable, conscious,
and rational phenomena. Describe how the concepts of the psychodynamic approach
specifically look at different components of leadership when compared to leadership
theories focused on the behaviors of leaders.
Pseudotransformational leadership
a. Aids followers in an exclusively superficial way.
b. Is socialized leadership concerned with the collective good.
c. Focuses on the leaders own interests rather than the interests of others.
d. Is an ineffective form of leadership.
Behavioral approach contributes to leadership understanding by
a. Expanding focus to what leaders do
b. Focusing in on leader characteristics
c. Expanding focus to who leaders are
d. Focusing on adaptive leadership
According to the Leadership Grid, opportunistic leaders rely primarily on the 5, 5 style
of leadership.
a. True
b. False
Of the scholar(s) listed below, who argued that true leadership raises the moral values
of subordinates?
a. Bennis and Nanus
b. Graen and Uhl-Bien
c. MacGregor Burns
d. Kouzes and Posner
For task characteristics that are ambiguous, how many possible leader behaviors might
be used?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
Writing about and researching leadership is
a. Declining in popularity
b. A universally appealing topic
c. Simplistic rather than complex
d. Less popular in the business area than in social sciences
Of all the traits that are related to leadership, intelligence is probably the strongest
(most
consistent).
a. True
b. False
My boss really does not get the technical aspects of the job my group is trying to
complete. I understand the intricacies of the project and my team members come to me
with all of their questions. What has happened in this work setting?
a. I have taken control and power of the group
b. I have undermined my boss
c. I have emerged as the team leader
d. My boss is no longer a leader
A strength of the trait approach
a. Self-confidence is the trait most important to leadership
b. There is a clear list of leader traits
c. Identifying traits is highly objective
d. It is appealing to identify special traits in leaders
Responses women have to gender-based stereotypes depend on which of the following
factors?
a. Degree to which the followers engage in emotionally intelligent behaviors
b. The followers’ self-efficacy
c. The power the leader holds
d. Experience the leader has in dealing with gender bias
Mumford’s research studied military personnel rather than business and organizational
leaders.
a. True
b. False
The behavioral approach works by telling leaders how to behave.
a. True
b. False
Explain how stereotype assimilation and stereotype reactance relate to women’s
leadership performance.
Much of the psychodynamic approach research and concepts discuss leadership in
groups or organizations. How does the information in the Focus on the Leader-Follower
Relationships directly or more indirectly relate to concepts in the Leader-Member
Exchange approach?
What is the relationship between LMX and employee empowerment?
In path-goal theory, when tasks are ambiguous, three different styles of leadership are
prescribed. How would a leader know which one to choose?
Using Kotter’s functions of management and leadership model to support your
argument, would you rather your direct supervisor be a leader or a manager? Use
Kotter’s model as a reference to the specifics of each.
How can transformational leadership practices affect organizations undergoing
mergers?
Why might some subordinates not want to work with servant leaders?
LMX theory assumes that improved exchanges between leaders and followers are
desirable. When might a follower not want €improved career-oriented social
exchanges€ with a leader?
Propose some guidelines for how a leader can adapt his or her communication to
diverse cultures.
Compare and contrast the laissez-faire leader discussed in the transformation approach
and the delegating leader discussed in the Situational Leadership Model.