Individuals displaying the five major traits in the text
a. Are leaders in their workplace
b. Also display other leader traits in their workplace
c. May be leaders in their workplace
d. Also display dominance in their workplace
Human skills are important at all levels of management.
a. True
b. False
As captain of the soccer team, your primary concern is winning games and maintaining
the
strength of the team. Your players couldn’t care less about teamwork and just want to
win. Which component of leadership would you recommend the leader focus on?
a. Roles
b. Common goals
c. Process
d. Influence
Which of the following is not a criticism of the team leadership model?
a. Its complexity
b. It includes only a partial list of skills leaders might use to make team decisions
c. Shared leadership might not work for all team members’ skill levels
d. It provides a cognitive guide to aid leaders in maintaining effective teams
The psychodynamic approach has some roots in how early childhood experiences
influence how we respond to people.
a. True
b. False
Phase 1 in leadership making
a. Is hierarchical
b. Is contractual
c. Is reciprocal
d. Is transformational
According to Atwater and Carmeli, a study of employees in a variety of jobs in Israeli
organizations found
a. High-quality leader-member exchanges were directly correlated with creativity
b. High-quality leader-member exchanges were negatively correlated with employee
feelings of energy
c. LMX was directly correlated with creativity
d. LMX correlated with employee feelings of energy, which then enhanced their
creativity
Motivation and personality fall within the competencies component of Mumford’s skills
model.
a. True
b. False
Servant leadership
a. Directly impacts society
b. Indirectly impacts society
c. Has not been shown to impact society
d. Is not a useful theory of leadership
People want to be able to identify leaders as those who are leading the way in our
society. This is an example of what strength of the approach?
a. Century of research
b. Intuitive appeal
c. Benchmarking traits
d. Definitive list of traits
Which of the following is a communal characteristic?
a. Sensitivity
b. Confidence
c. Assertiveness
d. Rationality
Adaptive leadership is a complex process comprising which major dimensions?
a. Adaptive work
b. Situational challenges
c. Leader behaviors
d. Legitimate power
A football team decides to completely restructure its offense and use many different
players in the process. The players, coaches, and even the fans could have a hard time
figuring out the new system and implementing this completely new structure.This is an
example of
a. An adaptive challenge
b. A technical challenge
c. A technical and adaptive challenge
d. A non-challenge
The clinical paradigm in psychodynamic approach attempts to discover how leaders and
organizations really work.
a. True
b. False
Kouzes and Posner’s research included a meta-analysis of over 30 studies of
transformational leadership.
a. True
b. False
Stogdill’s later studies argued that personality and situational factors were both
determinants
of leadership.
a. True
b. False
I am the lead barista at a local coffee shop managing four staff. I chat often with the
staff and enjoy joking with them but only after I have assigned the tasks and they have
accomplished them. My behavior would plot on the Blake & Mouton Leadership Grid
at what point?
a. 3, 3
b. 1, 9
c. 5, 5
d. 3, 8
e. 9, 1
The set of rules or principles that guides us in making decisions about right or wrong is
called
a. Moral theory
b. Ethical dilemmas
c. Ethical decision-making process
d. Ethical theory