63. I focus on getting my job done and satisfying my needs and also think about the
needs of my team members. I also consider my influence with my leader as mixed and
one in which we are both testing my role in the organization. We are in the
a. Mature partnership phase
b. Acquaintance phase
c. Stranger phase
d. Negotiated phase
Which of the following is not a strength of the team leadership model?
a. Its complexity
b. It provides a cognitive guide to aid leaders in maintaining effective teams
c. Shared leadership works for all team members’ skill levels
d. It provides for a shared leadership model in organizations
Destructive leadership thrives in environments that are
a. Stable
b. Ethical
c. Utilitarian
d. Collectivist
To which research scholar is the charismatic theory of leadership attributed?
a. Avolio
b. Bass
c. Liden
d. House
Which of the Big Five personality factors is also one of the five major traits identified
in the text?
a. Extraversion
b. Determination
c. Conscientiousness
d. Self-confidence
e. Intelligence
His ethical perspective speaks directly to values of workers and values of organizations.
a. Burns
b. Heifetz
c. Greenleaf
d. Mathews
Some of the main concepts of authentic leadership were identified earlier as a part of
which approach?
a. Leader-member exchange
b. Transformational
c. Path-goal
d. Adaptive
When leaders use good communication skills to understand and acknowledge followers’
viewpoints they are using which characteristic of a servant leader?
a. Healing
b. Listening
c. Persuasion
d. Conceptualization
My job is data entry, which I do all day long every day of the week. This is a(n)
a. Complex task characteristic
b. Ambiguous task characteristic
c. Challenging task characteristic
d. Mundane task characteristic
A mistake commonly made is to call a work group a “team” but treat it as a collection of
individuals.
a. True
b. False
Within an organization, the trait approach can be applied to
a. Low-level managers
b. Middle-level managers
c. Upper-level managers
d. All levels of the organization
Your boss listens to employees’ personal problems and tries to create a positive work
environment by being agreeable, eager to help, comforting, and uncontroversial. This is
an example of
a. Authority compliance leadership
b. Team leadership
c. Country club leadership
d. Middle of the road leadership
e. Impoverished leadership
Expectancy theory, when applied in path-goal leadership says
a. Leaders need to find the right reward to motivate followers
b. Make the same rewards available to all followers
c. Leaders should show motivation in multiple ways
d. Followers are expected to motivate other followers.
“Men just seem to be naturally better at math than women; that’s just a fact!” This
statement is an example of
a. Prejudice
b. Gender egalitarianism
c. Institutional collectivism
d. Diversity
Meta-analysis shows that women and men leaders have many similarities.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is a criticism of authentic leadership?
a. The practical model has not been validated
b. It does not fully express the need for trustworthy leadership
c. It provides broad guidelines for authentic leadership development
d. It has a moral dimension
Bass and Avolio suggest that transformational leadership cannot be taught since it
results from innate leadership characteristics.
a. True
b. False
An adaptive challenge occurs when the problem is quite clear, but the solution is not
easy to ascertain.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following interfere(s) with our ability to understand and appreciate the
human experience of others?
a. Culture
b. Ethnocentrism
c. Prejudice
d. Diversity
Leadership generates motivation by
a. Adjusting style to commitment of followers
b. Setting high expectations
c. Using only directive behaviors
d. Clarifying the path to goal accomplishment
According to the SLII® model, why is there a regression in commitment at
development levels 2 and 3? Do you agree with this reasoning?
Environmental influences are considered those things that are outside the control of the
leader’s capabilities. Describe why you think the authors of this research included this
in a skills model of leadership.
What is the benefit to the leader of having a high-quality relationship with employees?
What happens in the holding environment of adaptive leadership?
How does the power of servanthood compare with French and Raven’s five bases of
social power?
One of the follower characteristics in path-goal theory is perception of ability. As
perception of ability goes up, directive leadership should go down. Why is this? And
what is the effect on the follower if directive leadership continues to be used?
100. Compare the earlier LMX studies, which described in-groups and out-groups to
the leadership-making studies in which there are three phases. How is it more helpful to
describe LMX in three phases instead of categorizing in- and out-groups?
Using the definition of leadership as stated in the text-“Leadership is a process whereby
an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal”-create an
example
where a leader uses and demonstrates each component effectively. Clearly explain and
show how
each component is present in your example. Use examples from the text to support your
claims.
Plan a way for two countries that differ on future orientation (one with a high score, the
other with a low score) to negotiate an agreement on environmental protection.
What is implicit leadership theory and how did it contribute to the concept of global
leadership behaviors? What are the limitations of this approach?