Adaptive leadership provides a prescriptive approach to leadership that is useful and
practical. What are these prescriptions?
a. The adaptive work that takes place
b. The leader behaviors used
c. Correctly identifying the situational challenge
d. The change in followers once adaptation occurs
Our team has just the right mix of people with complementary skills and strengths. Our
team is displaying which characteristic of team excellence?
a. Standards of excellence
b. Clear norms of conduct
c. Competent team members
d. Principled leadership
Transformational leadership can be used to
a. Influence followers individually
b. Influence only followers who want this type of leadership
c. Influence whole organizations
d. Influence only leaders who want this type of leadership
The SLII® model emphasizes flexibility in leadership style.
a. True
b. False
Kellerman argues that in the last forty years there has been a shift in leadership power
from
a. Shared power to top down power
b. Leader dominated power to shared power with followers
c. Follower dominated power to shared power with leaders
d. Referent power focus to coercive power focus
42. What is not a result found by meta-analysis on characteristics and behaviors of
female and male leaders?
a. Women devalued when they worked in male-dominated environments.
b. Women devalued when the evaluators were men.
c. Women evaluated favorably when they used directive or autocratic styles.
d. Women led in a more democratic style than men.
Persistence, dominance, and drive are characteristics of which trait?
a. Extraversion
b. Sociability
c. Determination
d. Intelligence
Liden’s servant leadership model is “trait-like” in that
a. Leader behaviors are identified
b. Leader attributes are part of the antecedent conditions
c. Humility is a consistent servant leadership factor
d. Identifying leader traits is an outcome of servant leadership
Workplace problems with clearly defined and solvable solutions are
a. Biological challenges
b. Adaptive challenges
c. Technical challenges
d. Psychodynamic challenges
Completing a personal assessment of one’s own leadership traits
a. Helps individuals assess their own strengths
b. Helps individuals determine their potential for promotion
c. Helps individuals understand how they fit into an organization
d. Helps organizations choose lower-level managers
The people I am leading want me to use servant leadership. This is an example of
a. Collective bargaining
b. Emotional healing
c. Context and culture
d. Follower receptivity
McGrath suggests preventing deleterious changes as part of
a. Monitoring/internal.
b. Executive action/internal.
c. Monitoring/external.
d. Executive action/external
23. The dimension of culture that is concerned with how much a society or organization
emphasizes sensitivity to others, social support, and community values is
a. Values orientation
b. Future orientation
c. In-group orientation
d. Humane orientation