My job’s policies and procedures change regularly. This is a(n)
a. Complex task characteristic
b. Unclear task characteristic
c. Challenging task characteristic
d. Mundane task characteristic
The gender leadership gap occurs because
a. Women choose the “mommy track”
b. Women using flexible time are often marginalized
c. Women are not in the pipeline
d. Women do not possess the right leadership skills
Transformational leadership
a. Helps followers to transcend their own self-interests for the good of the group.
b. Communicates high expectations.
c. Is a process in which leaders and followers exchange efforts for specified rewards.
d. Is an interactive process in which the leader tries to shift power to those who are
being led.
The Full Range Model of Transformational Leadership contains how many factors?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 4
d. 7
Which best describes the overall results of Stogdill’s second survey when compared
with his
initial survey?
a. There was little to no difference in the findings.
b. Situational factors became less of a focus.
c. It was more balanced in its descriptions of the role of traits and leadership.
d. Personality played a larger role in leadership.
Team effectiveness is evaluated on these desired team outcomes:
a. Performance and development.
b. Norming and forming.
c. Technical and empathetical.
d. Controlling and delegating.
The knowledge competency in the skills model is most similar to
a. Self-confidence in trait approach
b. Katz’s conceptual skill
c. Katz’s technical skill
d. Knowledge in Mumford’s model
Power is described as
a. A relational concern for both leaders and followers
b. Use of force over others to manipulate them
c. Letting any follower do whatever he or she wants
d. Forcing people to engage in extreme behaviors
The tendency to be thorough, dependable, organized, and decisive describes which Big
Five personality factor?
a. Openness
b. Conscientiousness
c. Low neuroticism
d. Self-confidence
Servant leadership has been called a paradox because
a. It is not a trait but a behavior that can be learned.
b. It asks leaders to serve and influence others at the same time.
c. It is both a theory and an approach.
d. Followers grow while being served.
What best resembles the consideration behavior construct?
a. Supportive
b. Directive
c. Participative
d. Achievement oriented
When some leaders encourage the fight-flight assumption and use in-group/out-group
division for motivation and to reinforce the group’s identity they are misrepresenting the
main premise of which leadership approach?
a. Situational
b. Behavioral
c. Trait
d. LMX
13. Kohlberg’s Model of Moral Development has been criticized for
a. Focusing exclusively on individualistic viewpoints of moral development
b. Focusing on moral development, which is not ethical development
c. The non-inclusive subject sample used in developing the model
d. The authoritative nature of the stages