41) According to evidence, what is the first step a charismatic leader takes to influence
followers?
A) developing a formal vision statement
B) engaging in emotion-inducing and often unconventional behavior
C) setting an example for followers through actions and words
D) articulating an appealing vision
E) communicating high performance expectations
42) Which of the following is true about the effectiveness of charismatic leadership?
A) Research shows scant correlations between charismatic leadership and high performance.
B) Charisma may not always be generalizable.
C) Charisma appears most successful when the environment is stress-free.
D) Charismatic leaders usually surface when the organization is stable and successful.
E) Charismatic leadership qualities are best utilized in lower-level management jobs.
43) Leaders who clarify role and task requirements to accomplish established goals exhibit a(n)
_________ style of leadership.
A) transformational
B) transactional
C) charismatic
D) authentic
E) situational
44) ________ leaders inspire followers to transcend their self-interests for the good of the
organization and can have an extraordinary effect on their followers.
A) Transformational
B) Transactional
C) Task-oriented
D) Laissez-faire
E) Transcendental
45) In terms of the full range of leadership model, which leader behavior is the least effective?
A) management by exception (active)
B) contingent reward
C) management by exception (passive)
D) individualized consideration
E) laissez-faire
46) According to the full range of leadership model, which of the following leader behaviors will
enable leaders to motivate followers to perform above expectations and transcend their self-
interest for the sake of the organization?
A) management by exception (active)
B) contingent reward
C) individualized consideration
D) management by exception (passive)
E) laissez-faire
47) Researchers are conducting a study of a company called Acme Corp., which they believe to
be led by a transformational leader. Which of the following, if true, would most support the
conclusion that Acme’s leader is a transformational leader?
A) Acme’s top managers often disagree over defining the organization’s goals.
B) Acme’s goals tend to be very ambitious and to hold personal value for employees.
C) Acme has a centralized decision-making structure.
D) Acme’s performance has held at average levels for the past three years.
E) Acme’s compensation plans are designed to reward short-term results.
48) Two companies, Roland Media and Go! Corp., are both headed by transformational leaders.
However, Roland Media showed much greater profitability over a 5-year time period than did
Go! Corp. Which of the following best explains why Roland Media performed better than Go!
Corp. under transformational leadership?
A) Roland Media’s leader goes through a complex bureaucratic structure, whereas Go! Corp.’s
leader regularly interacts with the company’s workforce to make decisions.
B) Unlike Go! Corp.’s employees, Roland Media’s employees don’t readily give up decision-
making authority.
C) Roland Media is a small, privately held firm, whereas Go! Corp. is a large, complex public
company.
D) Roland Media is headquartered in a low power distance region, whereas Go! Corp. is
headquartered in a country that is high in power distance.
E) Roland Media’s employees tend to be more highly individualistic than do Go! Corp.’s
employees.
49) Which of the following would best serve as evidence to support the conclusion that an
individual is an authentic leader?
A) The leader is cautious about information sharing and tends to provide updates only to top
management.
B) In business exchanges, the leader puts the company’s bottom line before his or her ideals.
C) The leader acts in the company’s best interest as long as those interests don’t conflict with his
personal ambitions.
D) The leader constantly questions his or her values.
E) The leader inspires a great deal of trust in his or her followers.
50) The concept of socialized charismatic leadership seeks to integrate charismatic leadership
with ________ leadership.
A) transformational
B) production-oriented
C) relational
D) ethical
E) transactional
51) ________ is a psychological state that exists when you agree to make yourself vulnerable to
another because you have positive expectations about how things are going to turn out.
A) Consideration
B) Trust
C) Empowerment
D) Empathy
E) Respect
52) All of the following are consequences of a relationship of trust between supervisors and
employees, except that ________.
A) trust facilitates information sharing
B) trusting groups are more effective
C) trust discourages taking risks
D) trust enhances productivity
E) company bottom lines are positively influenced by trust
53) Which of the following statements accurately describes the attribution theory of leadership?
A) Leadership is merely an attribution people make about other individuals.
B) Good leaders attribute their successes to their team or group members.
C) Leadership qualities are attributions that are independent of performance.
D) The achievement of group goals is rarely attributed to good leadership.
E) Leadership is an attribute that individuals are born with.
54) The president of a small Asian country was hailed as a visionary and a genius when the
nation’s economy burgeoned during his first term in office. However, when the currency and the
stock markets crashed during his government’s second term, he was criticized as arrogant, elitist,
and shortsighted. This scenario reflects the ________ theory of leadership.
A) traits
B) behavioral
C) LMX
D) substitutes
E) attribution
55) According to research, which of the following is true about demographic assumptions that
are made about leaders?
A) Leaders are likely to be assumed to be white.
B) White leaders are no more likely to be rated effective than leaders from other racial groups.
C) Teams invariably prefer male leaders.
D) Teams prefer female leaders when aggressively competing against other teams.
E) Teams prefer male leaders when the competition is within teams and calls for improving
positive relationships within the group.
56) Zenith Technologies has a very flat organizational system with few managers. Instead, it has
a rigid system of clear, formalized goals, clear procedures, and cohesive work groups. In this
case, the various components of the organizational system are acting as ________ to formal
leadership by replacing the support and ability offered by leaders.
A) detriments
B) traits
C) attributes
D) substitutes
E) supplements
57) Trust which is based on a mutual understanding of each other’s intentions and appreciation of
the other’s wants and desires is referred to as ________.
A) substitute trust
B) identification-based trust
C) attributional trust
D) assumption-based trust
E) socialized trust
58) Because he has an internationally based team, Leo and the team do most of their business
communications via e-mail. Which of the following represents what is least likely to be true of
Leo’s experience working with the team in an online environment?
A) Leo relies heavily on his written skills to communicate support and inspiration.
B) Team members must be particularly adept at reading emotions in others’ messages.
C) Team members tend to have high levels of identification-based trust.
D) Negotiations between team members sometimes stall due to lack of trust.
E) Leo uses written communication to reinforce what he conveys to team members verbally.
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Leo supervises a global team of project members based in multiple countries. Maria is Brazilian,
Jean-Paul is French, Amit is Egyptian, and Xiang is Chinese. Leo is American and is based in the
United States.
59) In the light on the findings of the GLOBE project, which team members can be expected to
respond most favorably when Leo exhibits high levels of initiating structure?
A) Jean-Paul and Xiang
B) Amit and Xiang
C) Maria and Jean-Paul
D) Amit and Maria
E) Xiang and Amit
60) Which of the following team members would be least likely to respond favorably if Leo
made project-related decisions independently, without consulting the team?
A) Maria
B) Jean-Paul
C) Amit
D) Xiang
E) Maria and Jean-Paul
61) The team agrees that a large component of the project will be carried out at the Chinese
headquarters, with Xiang responsible for leading that support team. Based on what the GLOBE
project concludes about Chinese culture, which of the following leader behaviors would be most
effective?
A) infrequent decision-making
B) highly participatory decision-making
C) autocratic decision-making
D) decision-making without initiating structure
E) moderately participatory decision-making
62) In carrying out a transformational approach to overseeing the project, Leo strives to
implement the universal elements of transformational leadership. He most likely implements all
of the following except ________.
A) vision
B) providing encouragement
C) positiveness
D) proactiveness
E) silent leadership
63) Nonsanctioned leadership is usually less important than formal influence.
64) All managers are leaders.
65) A comprehensive review of the leadership literature, when organized around the Big Five,
has found conscientiousness to be the most important trait of effective leaders.
66) Traits are most useful for distinguishing between effective and ineffective leaders.
67) Behavioral studies imply that people can be trained to be leaders.
68) A leader designated as high on initiating structure would be likely to clearly define the roles
of his or her subordinates.
69) According to the University of Michigan studies, production-oriented leadership is defined
as the extent to which a leader tends to emphasize the technical or task aspects of the job.