What two types of leadership behavior were identified by the program of research at the
University of Michigan?
a. Employee orientation and production orientation
b. Initiating structure and consideration
c. High task and low task
d. Concern for people and concern for task
e. Paternalistic and maternalistic
Women are stereotyped with agentic characteristics.
a. True
b. False
In Hill’s Team Leadership Model, the cohesiveness of the team and the ability of team
members to satisfy their own needs while working effectively with other team members
defines
a. Development
b. Commitment
c. Recognition
d. Results-driven leadership
In the Leadership Grid, the 9, 9 type of leader prefers the middle ground and swallows
convictions in the interest of progress.
a. True
b. False
Allowing a group of employees to run the daily operations of the organization while the
supervisor remains out of the picture unless he is needed to solve problems, listen to
concerns, give praise, and provide feedback is best explained with
a. Directing style
b. Delegating approach
c. Supporting approach
d. Coaching approach
Which approach describes authentic leadership in terms of the characteristics of
leaders?
a. George’s
b. Terry’s
c. Walumbwa’s
d. Luthans and Avolio’s
Ethics
a. Focuses on the virtuousness of individuals and their motives.
b. Is a derivative of the Greek word pathos.
c. Is primarily concerned with an organization’s goals.
d. Is a derivative of the Greek word logos.
Spears’s 10 characteristics of a servant leader were derived from
a. House’s original work on ethical leadership
b. Greenleaf’s original work on servant leadership
c. House’s original work on charismatic leadership
d. Bass’s original work defining transformational leadership
How many distinct clusters, or groups of countries, are represented in the GLOBE
studies?
a. 10
b. 32
c. 62
d. 107
Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of team excellence, according to
Larson and LaFasto?
a. Results-driven structure.
b. Collaborative climate.
c. Authoritative leadership.
d. Clear, elevated goal.
My leader takes careful responsibility for managing the resources of our organization.
This is an example of which characteristic of a servant leader?
a. Stewardship
b. Commitment to the growth of people
c. Persuasion
d. Conceptualization
Who developed five cross-cultural competencies for leaders?
a. Adler and Bartholomew
b. Hofstede
c. Lord and Maher
d. House et al.
The Situational Leadership® approach
a. Is one of the more widely recognized leadership approaches
b. Integrates leadership skills with follower skills
c. Integrates leadership behaviors with follower traits
d. Is not recognized as a legitimate modern day leadership approach
According to path-goal theory, when jobs are very complex, participative leadership
should be provided.
a. True
b. False
Which of the components on Blake & Mouton’s Leadership Grid has high concern for
interpersonal relationships and low concern for task accomplishment?
a. Authority compliance
b. Country club
c. Impoverished
d. Middle of the road
e. Team
In which way will leadership and power be approached in upcoming chapters?
a. As a form of coercion.
b. As positional power.
c. From the perspective of the follower.
d. As a relational concern for both leaders and followers.
e. As a tool to be used by the leader.
According to GLOBE researchers, which of the following statements is false?
a. The Anglo cluster is high in performance orientation and low in in-group
collectivism.
b. The Eastern Europe cluster tends to be forceful and supportive of its coworkers.
c. The Latin Europe cluster places value on institutional collectivism and societal goals.
d. The Sub-Saharan Africa cluster tends to place higher concern for family and friends
than for themselves.
What does the psychodynamic study of leadership effectiveness demonstrate more
clearly than other conceptual framework?
a. Recognition that people can develop aggressive behaviors when leaders are
aggressive
b. Recognition that people’s emotions affect their behaviors
c. Recognition that early childhood experiences can be overcome
d. Recognition that people differ in their motivational patterns
Manuel has a good sense of who he is and is confident that what he does and how he
responds to situations will help him achieve his goals. Manuel has
a. External locus of control
b. Need for affiliation
c. Internal locus of control
d. Authoritarian disposition