I am doing a job that has ambiguous rules for which I need clarity. I need my leader to
a. Challenge me
b. Involve me
c. Nurture me
d. Direct me
Which of the components on Blake & Mouton’s Leadership Grid has low concern for
interpersonal relationships and high concern for task accomplishment?
a. Authority compliance
b. Country club
c. Impoverished
d. Middle of the road
e. Team
The need for directive leadership increases when employees
a. Believe that outside circumstances control their lives.
b. Believe they are in charge of their lives.
c. Feel competent to complete their work.
d. Want to help make decisions.
You have been working at your job for over a year. Your boss starts offering you new
assignments with weekly meetings in order to exchange valuable information regarding
the tasks. The result is that you and your boss are able to redefine your working
relationship and
find new ways of relating. According to the LMX theory, you are now in a _____ role.
a. Tested
b. Mixed
c. Scripted
d. Negotiated
Which researcher extended House’s work on transformational leadership?
a. Burns
b. Stogdill
c. Bass
d. Greenleaf
Which of the following is not an outcome of servant leadership?
a. Follower performance and growth
b. Organizational performance
c. Societal impact
d. Leader empowerment
Leaders who do the right thing are applying which of Liden’s servant leader behaviors?
a. Empowering
b. Behaving ethically
c. Emotional healing
d. Putting followers first
60. Which of the following scholars identified four components of authenticity,
including self-awareness, balanced processing, relational transparency, and internalized
moral perspective?
a. Terry
b. George
c. Walumbwa et al.
d. Luthans and Avolio
Argued that leaders and managers are distinct; they are different types of people
a. Jago
b. Zaleznik
c. Kotter
d. Bass
e. Burns
In the skills model, crystallized knowledge refers to
a. Intelligence quotient
b. Intellectual ability acquired over time
c. Motivation
d. Effectiveness
e. Inherent knowledge
Which premise of the clinical paradigm describes “blind spots” we all have?
a. Mental life lies outside of conscious awareness
b. Human development is an intra- and interpersonal process
c. There is rationale behind every act
d. How we regulate and express emotions is central to a person’s identity
Which of the following is not one of Bion’s three basic assumptions in groups?
a. Dependency
b. Interdependency
c. Fight-flight
d. Pairing
A strength of the path-goal theory is
a. It is very complex and has many aspects to it
b. Empirical research partially supports its validity
c. It attempts to integrate motivation from expectancy theory
d. It clearly explains the relationship between motivation and leader behaviors
My job does not have set ways of doing each task. This is a(n)
a. Complex task characteristic
b. Ambiguous task characteristic
c. Repetitive task characteristic
d. Unchallenging task characteristic
Which scholar(s) authored Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study
of 62 Societies?
a. House et al.
b. Hofstede
c. Heifetz
d. Avolio et al.