Path-goal theory does not clearly show how
a. Leader behaviors affect follower motivation levels.
b. Motivation is achieved by followers.
c. Whether or not leaders can adapt behaviors to different situations.
d. The best context for supportive behaviors.
Which of the following is not a reason why ethics is central to leadership?
a. The process of influence.
b. The impact leaders have on establishing the organization’s values.
c. The need to engage followers to accomplish mutual goals.
d. The existence of bottom-up communication.
Groups subject to the dependency assumption are united by which of the following?
a. Feelings of sadness
b. Feelings of helplessness
c. Fear of the outside world
d. Wanting to flee the situation
Transactional leadership refers to the bulk of leadership models.
a. True
b. False
A leader who places high emphasis on job requirements and low emphasis on people is
displaying
a. Country club behaviors
b. Authority compliance behaviors
c. Middle-of-the-road behaviors
d. Team behaviors
e. Impoverished behaviors
In path-goal theory, the main components are ______, ______, and ________.
a. Leader style, follower characteristics, work setting
b. Supportive leadership, directive leadership, participative leadership
c. Follower characteristics, task characteristics, supportive leadership
d. Leadership, followers, task
The systems perspective in adaptive leadership involves looking at problems that
a. Require people to adapt to both their internal cues and external environments
b. Are complicated, complex, and dynamic that can evolve and change
c. Require service through using expertise in diagnosing and prescribing solutions
d. Are focused on psychological parameters for adapting to difficult problems
32. You are the executive director of the local animal humane society. The staff you
supervise have been working at the society for more than two years and you have given
them consistently excellent performance appraisals at the last two annual reviews. You
have noticed lately that they have brought new ideas to you for ways to improve
customer service and animal care and that they are excited about helping new staff get
accustomed to the workplace. Based on the Situational Leadership® Approach, which
leadership style should you exhibit?
a. Delegating
b. Supporting
c. Coaching
d. Directing
Kouzes and Posner’s five practices that enable leaders to get extraordinary things
accomplished include all of these except
a. Inspire a shared vision.
b. Support contingent reward.
c. Challenge the process.
d. Model the way.
The continuum of transformational leadership contains
a. Two non-intersecting continua
b. Is one single continuum
c. Is made up of independent transformational variables
d. Is plotted on x and y axes to show variable interaction
When we use gender stereotypes in interactions with others
a. Females benefit
b. Males benefit
c. It often leads to biased judgments
d. We solve gender-based problems using facts
Leaders evaluate the competence and commitment of followers in which leadership
theory?
a. Path-goal
b. Leader-member exchange
c. Servant
d. Situational
Fisher associates all of the following positive communication behaviors with emergent
leadership, except
a. Being verbally involved
b. Establishing roles
c. Seeking others’ opinions
d. Initiating new ideas
According to research, when a woman leader encounters gender-leader stereotypes, her
likely response
a. Is to ignore it if it is an isolated gender stereotype threat.
b. Is to push back more strongly if the threats are combined.
c. Is to seek support from a more powerful leader in the organization.
d. Is to display a vulnerable response if the threats are combined.
When I approach decisions and take action based on what is in the best interest of
others, I am applying which ethical theory?
a. Utilitarianism
b. Altruism
c. Virtue-based theory
d. Ethical egoism
When leaders use servant leadership behaviors, the expected outcome on followers is
a. Greater self-actualization
b. Followers may themselves become servant leaders
c. Reduced need for leader interaction
d. Increased dependence on servant leaders
Laissez-faire leadership represents the absence of leadership.
a. True
b. False
The Heifetz perspective of ethical leadership suggests that it is up to the leader to
provide a trusting, empathic “holding environment” for followers to feel safe while
confronting difficult problems. This concept is also part of which leadership theory?
a. Leader-member exchange
b. Path-goal
c. Adaptive
d. Servant
There is no single accepted definition of servant leadership.
a. True
b. False
A framework through which we apply a psychodynamic lens to the study of behavior in
organizations is
a. A behavioral paradigm
b. A psychological paradigm
c. A clinical paradigm
d. A psychic paradigm
What are the advantages of studying group leadership from a dyadic perspective?
Identify at least five effects that charismatic leadership can have on followers. Under
what conditions are these effects likely to occur? What cautions might you offer to
followers of a charismatic leader?
How would a follower be able to identify, and perhaps identify with, a leader who is
using authentic leadership?
Is it possible for a narcissistic leader to acquire emotional intelligence?
Explain the relationship between transformational, transactional, and charismatic
leadership.
Gender is not mentioned as a relevant factor in this model, but has been mentioned in
previous chapters of our textbook. How would Watson and Hoffman (2004) predict that
male and female leaders would be perceived when using the team leadership model?
What would you predict?
What evidence is there for the existence of a glass ceiling?
How does management of virtual teams differ from face-to-face teams? Do all parts of
the team leadership model apply as well to virtual teams?
Hypothetically, the decision-making steps involved in the team leadership model could
be done by any member of the team. Under what conditions would a team need to have
more than just the leader monitoring and intervening?