A leader who is indifferent and apathetic is displaying
a. Country club behaviors
b. Authority compliance behaviors
c. Middle-of-the road behaviors
d. Team behaviors
e. Impoverished behaviors
The focus on the inner theatre concept is described as
a. Experiences with others that contribute to the creation of response patterns
b. Knowledge gained in post-secondary school that defines our behaviors
c. Psychological development in relation to groups
d. Unconscious assumptions about dangerous organizational behaviors
Scholarly research and popular work on the nature of leadership exploded in this decade
a. 1950
b. 1960
c. 1970
d. 1980
Which of Larson & LaFasto’s characteristics of team excellence is associated with
Hackman’s “real team”?
a. Results-driven structure
b. Unified commitment
c. Standards of excellence
d. Supportive organizational structure
Emotional intelligence includes our ability to perceive and
a. Express emotions
b. Use emotions to facilitate thinking
c. Reason/understand emotions
d. Manage emotions within oneself
The new behaviors House identified in his reformulated path-goal review in 1996 have
the same essential premise as the original work which is
a. To match leader behavior to follower competence and commitment
b. To describe task and relationship behaviors
c. To identify competencies of leaders
d. To give followers what is missing in their workplace
Assisting group members in building cohesiveness is primarily a task behavior.
a. True
b. False
______________ is described as those abilities to understand one’s own and others
feelings, behaviors and thoughts and to act appropriately.
a. Great Man theory
b. Social intelligence
c. Emotional intelligence
d. Big Five personalities
Organizational teams have been the focus of many studies in order to
a. Determine the skill level of the team members
b. Find ways to help less capable members still succeed
c. Support organizational distribution of workload
d. Find strategies for maintaining a competitive advantage
In the situational approach, supportive leader behaviors are mostly job related.
a. True
b. False
In George’s model of authentic leadership, the central component or as he called it “true
north” is
a. Purpose
b. The leader
c. Compassion
d. Consistency
What characteristic is considered a gender stereotype of women?
a. Independence
b. Rationality
c. Decisiveness
d. Helpfulness
Which post-World War II research groups applied psychodynamic approach to the study
of organizations?
a. Carle Clinic
b. Greenleaf Institute
c. Cornell Medical School
d. Harvard Business School
Adaptive leadership incorporates ideas from four different viewpoints: systems
perspective, biological perspective, service orientation, and psychotherapy perspective.
Choose one of these perspectives and relate it to the main concepts in one theory found
in this text.
Path-goal theory is criticized for its over-emphasis on the leader and not so much on the
follower. This may lead to follower dependence on the leader. What would you
recommend to an organization wanting to avoid such outcomes? Use specific behaviors
of the leader and give examples.
Discuss the meaning of this statement: “Gender biases can be particularly detrimental in
the decision-making processes for selecting elite leaders, given that the generally
unstructured nature of those decisions allows biased decisions without accountability.”
How can a leader’s style affect a follower’s motivation?
Write a scenario in which middle-of-the road leadership style would be the optimal
choice. How would it be preferable to each of the other four leadership styles on the
grid?
Explain the “pipeline” argument regarding women’s advancement to leadership
positions and offer evidence to support or refute it.