A leader who is assured and dominant in her manner is expressing
a. Agreeableness
b. Openness
c. Integrity
d. Self-confidence
Psychodynamic approach involves an in-depth and systemic investigation of a single
person, group, or community. This is
a. A strength of the approach
b. A criticism of the approach
c. An incorrect representation of the approach
d. Easy to incorporate into leadership training programs
What was the main purpose of the GLOBE project?
a. To refute the concepts found in implicit leadership theory
b. To determine how people from different cultures viewed leadership
c. To describe how transformational leadership is different in multiple cultures
d. To refute the concepts in Hofstede’s five cultural dimensions of leadership
In LMX leaders treat followers
a. Equally
b. In a collective way
c. Independently
d. According to group average
Openness is one of the five traits in the text that focuses on honesty and trustworthiness.
a. True
b. False
I want to do what is best for myself, and I am willing to bargain with others for favors
that I offer to provide in return in the future. I am at what stage of moral development?
a. Obedience and punishment stage
b. Conventional morality stage
c. Interpersonal accord and conformity stage
d. Individualism and exchange stage
During the acquaintance phase of leadership making, the roles are
a. Scripted
b. Tested
c. Negotiated
d. Implied
When the challenge requires that people learn new ways of coping, leaders need to take
an adaptive approach.
a. True
b. False
The underlying premise of the psychodynamic approach chapter is
a. There are rational behaviors that describe leadership action
b. There are irrational forces that underlie seemingly rational behaviors
c. Irrational behaviors are the downfall of organizations
d. Observations of behaviors are rational in nature
Blake and Mouton’s research identified
a. How leaders combine concern for results and concern for people
b. How task and relationship behaviors are part of one continuum
c. How task and relationship behaviors are on two separate continua
d. How opportunism as a behavior style focuses on followers roles
Training and development programs using the cultural behaviors, dimensions, and
clusters from the GLOBE studies could focus on all except which of the following
topics to help leaders be more effective in working with others from different cultures?
a. Teaching cultural sensitivity
b. Helping individuals understand their own cultural biases
c. New employee orientation programs
d. Present stereotypical behaviors from multiple cultures
Path-goal theory suggests all of the following except
a. That task and subordinate characteristics affect leadership effectiveness.
b. That leaders should help subordinates around their difficulties by removing obstacles.
c. That subordinates with an external locus of control should be directed.
d. That leaders need confidence and articulateness.
Which factor in the full model of transformational leadership encourages followers to
be creative and innovative?
a. Individualized consideration
b. Inspirational motivation
c. Idealized influence
d. Intellectual stimulation