Katz describes human skill as
a. Being aware of one’s own perspective on issues
b. Being competent with the process or product within a company
c. Being aware of the perspective of others on issues
d. Being able to shape the ideas of an organization
Forecasting environmental changes fits into what quadrant of the critical leadership
functions?
a. Monitor/internal
b. Monitor/external
c. Executive action/internal
d. Executive action/external
Jenny is the project manager of a small web design firm. She identifies with Christian
and American cultures. Working alone, Jenny created the work flow calendar for the
next six month, carefully including days off for Easter and the Fourth of July. Rajiv, one
of the firm’s new designers who practices Islam, was disappointed to see that Jenny
scheduled a huge project in late June during one of his important cultural holidays,
Ramadan. When Jenny was designing the work calendar, she was using
a. Multicultural sensitivity
b. Ethnocentrism
c. Altruism
d. Cultural competence
My company decides to merge with another to be more financially stable, but in the
process it appears best to downsize our current staff. This is an adaptive challenge
identified by which archetype?
a. Gap Between Espoused Values and Behaviors
b. Competing Commitments
c. Work Avoidance
d. Speaking the Unspeakable
You have been working at your job for over a year. Your boss started offering you new
assignments with weekly meetings for the past two months in order to exchange
valuable
information regarding the tasks. According to the LMX theory, you are having
_________ exchanges.
a. High-quality
b. Low-quality
c. Medium-quality
d. Negotiated-quality
Studies have shown that men are less effective than women when they supervise a
higher proportion of male subordinates.
a. True
b. False
Emotional intelligence has to do with two different domains and the interplay between
them.
Those two domains are
a. Task and process
b. Mind and body
c. Affective and cognitive
d. Traits and styles
The LBDQ was created by the researchers at the University of Michigan.
a. True
b. False
Social competence in emotional intelligence includes
a. Empathy
b. Self-regulation
c. Confidence
d. Motivation
The director of study abroad had to cancel a trip because a travel advisory was issued
warning that the country to be visited was not safe for foreign travel. The director was
using
a. Referent power
b. Positional power
c. Coercive power
d. Legitimate power
Emotional healing is the central motivation behind the servant leadership process.
a. True
b. False
In his early studies, Stogdill found that leaders in one situation would almost always be
leaders in another situation.
a. True
b. False
Skill in persuasion and communicating change describes which social judgment
competency?
a. Behavioral flexibility
b. Social perceptiveness
c. Social performance
d. Social intelligence
My leader is a real visionary and helps us solve organizational problems in creative
ways. She is using which characteristic of a servant leader?
a. Building community
b. Listening
c. Foresight
d. Conceptualization
Servant approach is about
a. Service and influence
b. Influence and skill development
c. Service and authoritarianism
d. Adaptive and influential leadership
When I establish a workplace environment that is open and safe while also being
available and encouraging to employees to solve demanding problems, I am
a. On the balcony
b. Creating a holding environment
c. Establishing protective norms
d. Maintaining disciplined action
Openness in the Big Five Personality Model is defined as
a. intellect, being informed, creativity
b. Sociable, assertive, high energy
c. Organized, dependable, decisive
d. Accepting, trusting, nurturing
_____________ is one of the five major leadership traits that focuses on a leader’s
inclination to seek out pleasant social relationships.
a. Surgency
b. Agreeableness
c. Extraversion
d. Intelligence
e. Sociability
Which of the following would a leader not ask when determining the nature of the
situation?
a. What task are the followers being asked to perform?
b. How can I best alter the styles of the followers?
c. How complex is the task?
d. Are the followers sufficiently skilled to accomplish the task?
Of the Big Five personality factors, which is the most strongly associated with
leadership?
a. Openness
b. Neuroticism
c. Social status
d. Extraversion